Rethinking Care Planning for Youth: Integrating Participation and Autonomy

1. It’s Time for Innovation:Care Planning and the Hoax of Participation and Voice Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi Director, School of Child & Youth Care Ryerson University Toronto, Canada

2. Good News My daughter’s Child Labour Essay

3. Finally Trauma-Informed

4. ‘Fuck You and Die’

5. Conceptual Tensions Planning – a strategic, logical process designed to achieve a particular thing, outcome or experience Caring – An organic, emotional process that is neither ‘designed’ nor has particular aims

6. Caring without a Plan / Planning without Care • Sleep • Food • Sensory access • Identity silences • Dignity • Social Media prohibition • Aesthetics

7. Some Pictures • Picture of bed

8. Picture of hockey net

9. Picture of words on door frame

10. Picture of rec room

11. Whose Plan of Care? Good reasons to plan care: • Accountability • Staying on track • Not losing young people in the system • Aggregate data to help us understand trends

12. It’s their Plan – They just don’t get to have it….

13. The Plan of Care Gathering Participation & Voice

14. Decisions Made Before We Get There What the gathering is called At what time and on what day it is scheduled Where the gathering is held Whether there will be food, and if so, what food Who is invited How people are invited Who does the inviting Who chairs the meeting How long the gathering is scheduled for What the agenda is What notes we take Who takes notes What happens to the notes How we follow up with people

15. Scott, Farideh and the Planning Template

16. Moving Forward with Some Innovation • Let’s stop ‘planning’ care, and simply care • We need indicators of care; why not ask young people what care means to them? • Caution: Young people may not have very high standards for care…

17. But we need to plan opportunities! A 21st century approach to planning is: Interactive Professional, Community-based, family-centered and youth-driven Mobile Neither time nor space bound Designed for the aesthetic needs of the user – visuals, audio, culturally relevant Not sequential or linear Networked

18. Planning and Mapping Planning is about getting from A to B and looks like this: Take hyw for 10km west, then exit at Green St. Green St. to Rose Ave, turn right Rose Ave to round about, take second exit, turn into Mall and you are there!

19. Mapping is about exploring the social, cultural, physical, political, identity, economic milieu and finding synergy and synthesis that fits you. It looks like this: Explore culture, recreation, relationships, learning, art, identity, jobs, advocacy and develop relational networks as resources that are useful to you.

20. Planning defines deviations from the Plan as problems; “I wanted to go to school but ended up at the mall” Mapping defines detours and new directions as enrichment of relational networks and resources. “I wanted to go to the employment centre but discovered an LGBTQ gathering place and decided to go there instead”

21. Participation and Planning What young people do, want, and think about must be integrated in how systems plan for and with them; Planning based on periodical gatherings separates young people’s lived experiences from system cultures;

22. What are we Planning? Traditionally, we plan for outcomes (which are often not sustainable). In the 21st century, we must plan for autonomy (which is the foundation of sustainable growth)!

23. Autonomy • The flip side of attachment • A sense of Self and one’s connections to the world • An ethical position • A spiritual position • A continuous clarification of identities and intersections • A vision for oneself, with clarity about capacity, resources, pathways

24. Opportunities • Technology – mapping resources and networking relationships driven by young people’s ambitions • A map of their own – how young people can construct their communities to fit their context

25. Thank you! k.gharabaghi@ryerson.ca