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This book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in both Norway and the United States, despite key organizational differences.
Križ explores ways that children can be empowered to participate in child protection investigations and decisions after removal from home. The author shows how children can be encouraged to develop and express their own opinions and explores tools for child protection workers to negotiate complex boundaries around the inclusion of children in decision-making.
She presents valuable insights from front-line child protection professionals’ unique perspectives and experiences within two very different systems, and evaluates the impacts of different organizational practices in promoting children’s participation.
Introduction
Children’s participation as contested practice
Non- participation triggers
Participation triggers
Doing participation
Youth citizens
Protecting children, creating citizens
Appendix 1: Research methods
Appendix 2: Discussion questions