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Residential care and treatment for children and youth remain ubiquitous across Canada in spite of frequent critiques and an ideology of constructing group care as a last resort. In the first book of its kind, Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi argues that the absence of a unifying theory or conceptual idea(s) pursuant to residential care and treatment perpetuate dynamics of mediocrity and complacency toward inadequate standards and practices. Drawing on organizational examples from across Canada, Gharabaghi re-constructs the possibilities for this form of care as a space for healing, growth, and the promotion of autonomy for young people. This well-timed resource offers the child and youth services community a positive, constructive, and revolutionary framework for residential care and treatment that is fundamentally based on a partnership between caregivers and young people, their families, neighbourhoods, and communities. Dr. Gharabaghi’s sophisticated and provocative analysis of the system’s key issues is essential reading for students, practitioners, and educators in the field of child and youth care and in the human services more broadly. Features: explores residential care and treatment with a focus on the needs of unique populations, such as black youth, Indigenous youth, and young people impacted by developmental disability or neurodevelopmental challenges emphasizes the voices and participation of young people with lived experience in residential care and treatment written in a uniquely Canadian context, but its theoretical elements draw on residential care in the United States, Germany, South Africa, and elsewhere

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Kiaras Gharabaghi offers a powerful call to arms for us to re-examine residential child and youth care practice with a focus on the quality and effectiveness of our efforts on the lived experiences of the youth we serve. --Jack Phelan, MS, Child and Youth Care, MacEwan University This book comes from a place of genuine passion, sound academic knowledge, lived professional experience, and valid scholarship intended to ignite thinking differently and critically about actually translating the voices of young people into real action--a necessary transformation that is long overdue in residential care. --Deborah Megens, MSW, CYC-P, Child and Youth Care, Sheridan College

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Kiaras Gharabaghi is the Director and Associate Professor of Ryerson University's School of Child and Youth Care, specializing in child and youth care ethics, organizational change, and international practice. He has over 20 years of front-line experience in managing children's mental health, welfare, and homelessness, and was recently appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services to serve on an expert panel that reviews all residential services in the province. He is the Co-editor of the popular journal Child and Youth Services and a regular columnist for the International Child and Youth Care Network.

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