1st Edition
The Implications of COVID-19 for Children and Youth Global Perspectives
This book captures a unique moment in time, relatively early into the COVID-19 pandemic, when the implications and consequences of the pandemic remained unclear and largely unpredictable. The contributors to this volume contemplate the impact of the pandemic on our relationships with children and youth, child and youth serving systems, and broader issues in society that directly relate to childhood and youth. The essays collected in this volume cover a variety of perspectives that range from systemic racism in child-serving institutions to the politics of childhood during a pandemic, and the psychological and even neurological impacts of lockdowns, public restrictions and social isolation. Beyond capturing the moment in time, the contributors also focused on the long-term; they contemplated how the evolving situation might affect the way we think about child and youth services and our relationships to children, their families and their communities. From the very theoretical to the concrete and the practical, this volume provides current thinking and practice in relation to pandemic-impacted residential care settings, education and schools, hospital settings, communities, practitioners, and more. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Child & Youth Services.
1. Introduction
Kiaras Gharabaghi, Shadan Hyder, Ashley Quinn, and Grant Charles
2. Disparities in Education: E-Learning and COVID-19, Who Matters?
Julet Allen, Fowzia Mahamed, and Ken Williams
3. CO-Vigilance: Radical Posturing for Uncertain Times
Peter Amponsah
4. Prop It up or Let It Fall? K-12 Schooling in and after COVID-19
Ben Anderson-Nathe
5. The Effects of COVID-19 Prevention Measures on Families
Jonathan Bailey and Johanne Jean-Pierre
6. Relationships between Human and Nonhuman Animals
Ranjana Basu
7. Leaving the Virus behind: Seeing the Glass Half Full Amidst COVID-19
Jeelu Susan Behanan
8. From Crisis to Opportunity: Rethinking Education in the Wake of COVID-19
Connie Bird and Hidesh Bhardwaj
9. The Distressing Levels of the Covid-19 Crisis
Jess Boon
10. Building Resilience in Covid-19
Andrea V. Breen and Heather Chalmers
11. Coronavirus Challenges for Family Social Workers in Hong Kong
Simon Chan
12. Reflections on Being Oppression-Adjacent in the Time of COVID
David Collins and Jeremy Christopher Kohomban
13. Social Protection: An Essential and Effective Social Policy Response During and After COVID-19
Julie L. Drolet
14. The Immanence of Change: Who Will Write the History of COVID-19?
Kiaras Gharabaghi
15. During a Pandemic, the Digital Divide, Racism and Social Class Collide: The Implications of COVID-19 for Black Students in High Schools
Sabrin Hassan and Beverly-Jean Daniel
16. Hiding and Being Found: How Inequity Found Its Spotlight during COVID-19 and What It Means for the Future
Joy Henderson
17. COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Private Partnerships: Supporting Children and Young People
Sydney Henry
18. Covid-19 and Vulnerable Families Living in Rural Locations: Building a System for Recovery
Rochelle Hine, Andrea Reupert, Phillip Tchernegovski, Jade Sheen, and Darryl Maybery
19. COVID 19: The Precarity of Families and Disability
Rachelle Hole and Tim Stainton
20. COVID-19 and Collective Grief
Shadan Hyder
21. COVID-19 in the Era of Opioid Overdose: A Glimmer of Hope in the Midst of Double Whammy Tragedy
Mohamed Ibrahim
22. Finding Our Power Together: Working with Indigenous Youth and Children during COVID-19
Nicole Ineese-Nash
23. Advocating for Health and Well-Being
Sara Jassemi
24. Covid-19 and Intergenerational Anxiety and Trauma
Cecilia M. Jevitt
25. The Longer-Term Ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Children, Families, and Their Communities
Daniel Ji and Grant Charles
26. The Crisis of Loss and Moral Injury – Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Teenagers and Healthcare Workers
Richard La Fleur
27. COVID-19: Effects of the Shutdown on Children and Families in Child and Youth Care Services in Germany
Maya Lorch and Dunja Fuchs
28. Engagement Redefined: Children and Youth without parental Care during and post Covid-19, India
Kiran Modi and Leena Prasad
29. Covid: What’s Next for Indigenous People?
Marie Nightbird
30. Challenges for Indigenous Children and Youth
Ashley Quinn
31. Covid-19 Fares Gently with Children and Youngsters, but They Bear a Large Burden Due to the Lock down of the Society
Charlotte Reedtz
32. COVID-19, the Opioid Epidemic and the Housing Crisis
Lydia Rezene
33. A Unique Experience
Jordan Risidore
34. COVID-19 and Youth in Detention
William Rowe
35. Renewed Grammars of Care: A(n Abbreviated) Case for the End of "the Service Provider"
Juanita Stephen and Nataleah Hunter-Young
36. Coronavirus and Youth
Curren Warf
37. Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Future of Children and Young People
Khadijah Williams
38. Galvanizing Solidarity Through Chaos: Policing, Surveillance and the Impact of COVID-19 on Black Canadian Youth
Keisha Evans and Lesa Francis
Biography
Grant Charles is a social work professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada and the managing editor of Child & Youth Services.
Kiaras Gharabaghi is the dean, Faculty of Community Services at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and specializes in child and youth care practices locally and globally.
Shadan Hyder is a community activist and child and youth care practitioner in Toronto, Canada with a diploma, Bachelor and Masters degrees in Child and Youth Care.
Ashley Quinn is an Indigenous social work professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
