“Community Envelops Us in This Grey Landscape of Obstacles and Allows Space for Healing”: The Perspectives of Indigenous Youth on Well-Being

Genealogy

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Johnny Boivin¹  Marie-Hélène Canapé¹  Sébastien Lamarre-Tellier¹  Alicia Ibarra-Lemay¹  Natasha Blanchet-Cohen¹ 

[1] Québec Youth Research Network Chair, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University

关键词: indigenous youth;    community care;    well-being;    indigenous youth participatory action research;    healing;   

DOI  :  10.3390/genealogy7010009

学科分类：公共、环境与职业健康

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents Indigenous youths’ perspectives on well-being. Using Indigenous youth participatory action research with the Indigenous youth advisory committee of the Québec Youth Research Network Chair (Canada), community care emerged as the central feature of well-being and was then visually presented in the form of a postcard. We discuss the meaning given to community care, the factors that support it, and the role that a visual illustration can play in promoting change. The article is informed by the co-creation of the postcard, an online luncheon conversation, and several debriefing/reflexive sessions with the Indigenous youth co-authors. Emphasis is placed on cultural continuity, relational agency, and solidarity, offering an alternative point of view to the prevalent and damaging decontextualized, deficit-based, and individualized approaches to well-being.

【 授权许可】

CC BY