Centering Black Youth Wellbeing
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Simple way to centre youth’s Well-being
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Simple way to centre youth’s Well-being
I am writing as a past manager of healthcare services for incarcerated youth in Ontario and one who is striving to complete the certification in Black Youth well-being.
One of the main ways to center youth’s well-being is to explore why incarceration fails. Also, why are there so many Black and minority youths who are jailed? I have seen firsthand how confinement damages young people’s physical and mental health, impede their education and career success and exposes them to abuse. I feel it is because of racism!
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I have found that the simplicity of a question like who am I paired with the complexity of whose am I? begins to center an individual’s experience while connecting them to the collection of relationships they knowingly and unknowingly own, including non-healing centered institutions. It’s beautiful when you listen to the individual through their stories and narratives.
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