This workshop will discuss and interrogate the power of transformational relationships, the need for boundaries and the importance of employing a strategic, trauma-informed and anti-oppression lens in working with youth.
Relationships are the foundations laid down in the present that create pathways towards positive futures, where needed, that allow youth and youth workers to address past harms and inequities. Relationships do not magically appear but require the intentional use of self. Additionally, youth workers need to operate within the frameworks of legislative and agency requirements, professional ethics and youth rights while maintaining boundaries that advance the work and do not become “walls”.
The need for such relationships has become even more paramount when working with youth in this global pandemic that has been a time of continuing adversity and inequity.
By strategically staging relational engagement across the need to disrupt, reclaim, repair and restore positions, critical youth work can be a force for transformation
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Presenter Bio:
Rick Kelly (C.C. W, B.A., M.SC; CYC: Cert/OACYC)
• Has been a Child and Youth Worker for 40 plus years working on the streets, in adolescent mental health, in community development, internationally, in mainstream education and as an educator at George Brown College. Since 2012 he has been running his own private practice dedicated to restorative practices and transformation. @Just Us: A Centre for Restorative Practices
• Employs a restorative practice model which blends his professional roles as a relational & radical youth worker, community developer and an educator to embrace a model that is focused on work with individual children/youth/Families in their communities/life space, in the context of systems that historically leave behind, oppress, exclude, silence, stream, pushout and marginalize.
• This work is an effort to demonstrably unhook form the legacy of the predominant colonial model of justice, education and child welfare and their enduring legacies. This is a continuous and evolving process of work and advocacy.
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