TY - JOUR
T1 - Awareness, Analysis, Engagement
T2 - Critical Consciousness Through Foster Youth Advisory Board Participation
AU - Forenza, Brad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Foster youth advisory boards provide child welfare-involved young people a forum through which to impact the policies, programs, and services that govern their care. In addition to facilitating policy change, these boards may also enable participating youth to cultivate a deeper understanding of themselves and their worlds. The present study utilized a strengths-based, critical consciousness framework to describe the ways in which 15 foster youth advisory board members in a single state reflect on, analyze, and respond to their socio-political worlds. To this end, the author aims to describe youth advisory board processes, while attempting to answer the question, “How does critical consciousness manifest through foster youth advisory board participation?” Emergent themes are organized around the existing dimensions of critical consciousness. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.
AB - Foster youth advisory boards provide child welfare-involved young people a forum through which to impact the policies, programs, and services that govern their care. In addition to facilitating policy change, these boards may also enable participating youth to cultivate a deeper understanding of themselves and their worlds. The present study utilized a strengths-based, critical consciousness framework to describe the ways in which 15 foster youth advisory board members in a single state reflect on, analyze, and respond to their socio-political worlds. To this end, the author aims to describe youth advisory board processes, while attempting to answer the question, “How does critical consciousness manifest through foster youth advisory board participation?” Emergent themes are organized around the existing dimensions of critical consciousness. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.
KW - Child welfare
KW - Critical consciousness
KW - Foster care
KW - Socio-political development
KW - Youth advisory board
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030182954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10560-017-0515-3
DO - 10.1007/s10560-017-0515-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030182954
SN - 0738-0151
VL - 35
SP - 119
EP - 126
JO - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
JF - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
IS - 2
ER -