Child and Youth Care Worker Advocacy for Social Movements Impacting Young People

Value

This assignment is comprised of two parts worth 20% each, for a total of 40% of your final grade.

Background

Many of the world’s most prominent social movements champion issues of injustice that intersect the lives of young people in profound ways. Additionally, one of the core functions of a child and youth care worker is to advocate for young people affected by unjust situations. For this assignment, you will research a social movement that may impact (or have impacted) young people and their families, and consider the ways in which a child and youth care worker could practise advocacy in relation to the chosen social movement.

You will develop a creative project that summarizes your research about the social movement and lists practical ways in which a child and youth care worker could advocate for young people and families affected by the injustice.

The general learning outcomes related to this assignment are:

• Analyze issues of critical social justice and their impact on the development of young people and their families, with a focus on current and historical perspectives on events such as: residential schools, the 2slgbtqqia movement, civil rights and Black Lives Matter, the disability movement, and Black Lives Matter, the disability movement, and feminism.
• Discuss ways in which oppression, power, discrimination, and racism may impactthe development of young people and their faimilies. 
• Evaluate the significance of advocacy in child and youth care Practice.

Instructions:

1. 1. Part 1: In this assignment you will choose a group that has experienced/currently experiences oppression, and the corresponding social movement. You will research the issue and the social movement and use a creative method to summarize key aspects of the history of this group up until present day in Canada. Your summary should demonstrate an analysis of how the issues at the heart of the social movement impact the development and experience of young people and their families. Your analysis should demonstrate your ability to break down and consider the various issues within the chosen social movement and connect them to the experiences of young people and their families. Creative methods couldinclude:
      1. avideo
      2. an audio recording orpodcast
      3. aninfographic
      4. an artisticproject
   2. Part 2: Make connections between the social movement and the role of a child and youth care worker. Identify three practical ways as a child and youth care practitioner you could advocate for the rights of a young person and/or their family from this group. Use the course textbook or other sources to support your ideas. This component may be included in the creative project or as a two-page written component accompanying your creative project.
   3. You may choose one of the following groups/socialmovements:
      1. Indigenous People – Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Missing and/or Murdered WomenInquiry
      2. The 2SLGBTQQIAcommunity/movement
      3. People of colour and the civil rights and/or Black Lives Mattermovements
      4. People with disabilities and the disabilitymovement
      5. Women and the feministmovement
      6. A topic of your choosing – contact the instructor for approvalfirst
   4. Once you have decided on a topic from the list above, send your instructor an email to identify which topic you have chosen. If you’d like to do a topic of your own choosing, contact the instructor first forapproval.
   5. You must support your assignment with three to five credible research sources. You may reference your textbook and other course materials, but will also have to do extraresearch to address the specific social movement you have 
   6. Sites and articles must be “reputable” (universities, public education sites, institutions,or reputable news sites such as BBC or CBC). The use of Wikipedia (or other “Wikis”) and study sites is not permitted; however, using Wikipedia or other sources to “mine” the reference list and get a head start on your own research is permitted.
      
      
   7. You may choose to include images in this assignment, but please note this is optional. If you are using images that are not your own original artwork, please use Creative Commons or public domain. You must include appropriate citations (under the image,and in the reference list). Some common A. websites for finding images include the following:     
      A. Pixabay(all public domain)
      B. Flickr(public domain and copyright)
      C. Google Images(public domain and copyright)
      D. Wikimedia Commons(public domain and various licenses)
   8. You must follow APA formatting and citation guidelines for this essay. You can findAPA citation assistance in the following (recommended) sites:
      A. NorQuest College Library APA 6th Edition(overview of citation and guidelines)
      B. OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab(for style and citation) 
      C. Knight Cite(for generating the reference list items)
   9. Assignments must be submitted in the Moodle assignment dropbox, in Word, or inanother .doc or .docx format (no PDFs unless otherwise discussed with the instructor). Paper assignments will not be accepted unless pre-agreed upon with the instructor.
   10. Late assignments will receive a deduction of 5% per calendar day. Exceptions will bemade in cases of illness (supported by appropriate medical documentation) or with prior arrangement with your 
   11. Deadlines will be announced in class and in Moodle, and you should plan to beginwork early in the term to avoid last-minute submissions. Consider this assignment your opportunity to integrate what you’ve learned throughout the 
   12. You will be assessed using the assignment rubric below.   
       

       Assignment Rubrics

       Part 1 (Total: /36 marks)
       
       

       Â	Above Expectations 7–9	Meets Expectations 4–6	Approaching Expectations 1–3	Below Expectations 0
       Â	Detailed and	Basic and accurate	Limited attempt at	No attempt at
       Â	accurate summary	history of the social	the summary of the	summary of the
       Summary of history	of the history of the social movement is	movement is provided.	history of the social movement is provided. Summary	history of the social movement is provided.
       Â	provided.	Â	is incomplete,	Â
       Â	Â	Â	vague, or unclear.	Â
       Â	Assignment	Assignment	Assignment	Assignment does
       Â	demonstrates in	demonstrates at a	attempts to	not demonstrate
       Â	multiple ways the	basic level the	demonstrate the	the impact of
       Â	impact of	impact of oppression	impact of	oppression and
       Impact	oppression and discrimination on	and discrimination on the development	oppression and discrimination on	discrimination on the development
       Â	the development	and experience of	the development	and experience of
       Â	and experience of	young people and	and experience of	young people and
       Â	young people and	their families.	young people and	their families.
       Â	their families.	Â	their families.	Â
       Â	Assignment	Assignment	Assignment	Assignment does
       Â	demonstrates in-	demonstrates	attempts to analyze	not move beyond
       Â	depth analysis of	straightforward	the social	a description of
       Â	the social	analysis of the social	movement and the	the social
       Â	movement and the	movement and the	impacts of the	movement and
       Â	impacts of the	impacts of the	oppression on the	includes no
       Analysis	oppression on the	oppression on the	people affected but	analysis of the
       Â	people affected and	people affected and	it is vague and	issue, the impact,
       Â	the potential role of	the potential role of	unclear. The	or role of the child
       Â	the child and youth	the child and youth	potential role of the	and youth care
       Â	care worker.	care worker.	child and youth care	worker.
       Â	Â	Â	worker is unclear or	Â
       Â	Â	Â	vague.	Â
       Â	Creative project	Creative project	Creative project is	No project
       Â	quality is	quality is sufficient.	basic. Sound and/or	submitted or
       Â	exceptional. Sound	Sound and/or visual	visual elements are	project is inaudible
       Quality of	and/or visual	elements are	difficult to hear, or	or shows disregard
       creative	elements are rich,	relevant, audible,	contain design	for detail and
       project	detailed, and	and well designed.	elements that	design.
       Â	exceptionally well	Â	detract from the	Â
       Â	designed.	Â	message of the	Â
       Â	Â	Â	project.	Â

       
       

       Part 2 (Total: /21 marks)

       Â	Above Expectations 7–9	Meets Expectations 4–6	Approaching Expectations 1–3	Below Expectations 0
       Â	More than 3	3 advocacy	Fewer than 3	No advocacy
       Â	thoughtful,	initiatives relevant	advocacy initiatives	initiatives relevant
       Â	relevant, and	to the social issue	relevant to the	to the social issue
       Â	practical advocacy	are provided.	social issue are	are provided.
       Â	initiatives are	Some connection	provided.	Connection to the
       Advocacy	provided.	to the course	Connection to the	course content is
       Â	Advocacy	content is	course content is	not demonstrated.
       Â	initiatives	demonstrated.	vague or unclear.	Â
       Â	demonstrate	Â	Â	Â
       Â	connection to the	Â	Â	Â
       Â	course content.	Â	Â	Â
       Â	The assignment	The assignment	The assignment	The assignment
       Â	articulates	articulates	attempts to	does not articulate
       Â	multiple	connections	articulate	any connection
       Â	connections	between the social	connections	between the social
       Â	between the social	movement, the	between the social	movement, the
       Â	movement, the	people affected,	movement, the	people affected,
       Making Connections	people affected, the role of the child and youth	the role of the child and youth care worker,	people affected, the role of the child and youth care	the role of the child and youth care worker,
       Â	care worker,	content from the	worker, content	content from the
       Â	content from the	course, and	from the course,	course, or
       Â	course, and	additional	and additional	additional
       Â	additional	research.	research, but the	research.
       Â	research.	Â	connection is vague	Â
       Â	Â	Â	and/or unclear.	Â
       Â	Above Expectations 3	Meets Expectations 2	Approaching Expectations 1	Below Expectations 0
       APA and writing (spelling, grammar, sentence structure,	3–5 credible sources used, no APA errors, no writing errors.	3–5 credible sources used; fewer than 5 APA errors; fewer than 5 writing errors	Fewer than 3 credible sources used; more than 5 APA errors; more than 5 writing errors	No credible sources used; more than 10 errors with APA and writing
       organization,	Â	Â	Â	Â
       etc.)	Â	Â	Â	Â