Simple way to centre youth’s Well-being

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  • Simple way to centre youth’s Well-being

    Posted by Norma on January 2, 2023 at 2:02 pm

    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!

    Gary A replied 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Gary A

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    January 3, 2023 at 9:01 am

    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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