Supporting Youth with Incarcerated Family
Event date: -
Event type: Single day (a day or less)
How can youth workers best support youth with incarcerated family? What do youth workers need to understand about the unique experiences of these youth?
Join YouthRex for this conversation with practitioners and advocates to learn from their professional and lived experience, exploring the realities for youth with incarcerated family, including issues such as:
- stigma, mental health, and identity
- maintaining relationships and accessing supports
- shifts in family and community dynamics
- intersecting experiences of racism, sexism, ableism, and heteronormativity
Guests will include:
- Zya Brown, Founder, Think 2wice
- Brianna Garneau, Project Ricochet
- Alicia Gordon, Systems Navigator, Elizabeth Fry Society of Northwestern Ontario
- Lindsay Martin, Current President, Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Ontario
- Melissa McLetchie, Collaborative for Racial Justice
- Nancy Russell, Criminal Justice Program Coordinator, Canadian Friends Service Committee, & Coordinator, Canadian Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents