Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection

Katrin Kri%z is a Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston, USA, and a Professor II at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has published two books: Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children: A Cross-Country Study of Policies and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2015), edited with Marit Skivenes, Ravinder Bran, and Tarja Pösö, and Protecting Children, Creating Citizens: Participatory Child Protection Practice in Norway and the United States (Policy Press, 2020). Mimi Petersen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University College Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the founder of the Nordic Network for Children's Right to Participation in Social and Educational Work: Practice, Research, and Development. Petersen has published several journal articles and books on children and young people's participation in social work and research in Nordic countries.

Foreword, by Marit Skivenes
Acknowledgments
Contributor Bios
Chapter 1: Introduction by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi Petersen
PART I: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS CHANGE AGENTS
Chapter 2: The Change Factory's Participation in Social Work Education in Norway, by Roar Sundby
Chapter 3: Child-directed Child Welfare Research and Development in Denmark, by Mimi Petersen
Chapter 4: Care Leavers' Participation in Designing Child Welfare Services and Policy in Israel, by Talia Meital Schwartz-Tayri and Hadas Lotan
Chapter 5: Children Claiming the Right to Live Without Violence in Nicaragua, by Harry Shier
PART II: PARTICIPATORY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
Chapter 6: The Participation of LGBTQIA+ Children and Youth in Care in the Netherlands, by Rodrigo González Álvarez, Mijntje ten Brummelaar, Kevin R. O. van Mierlo, Gerald P. Mallon and Mónica López López
Chapter 7: Children's Participation in Foster Care in Germany, by Daniela Reimer
Chapter 8: Creating and Crossing Age-related Participation Boundaries in Child Protection in the United States (California), by Megan Canfield, Jenna Gaudette, Emma Frushell and Katrin Kri%z
Chapter 9: Arts-Based Research with Children in Program Evaluation in Spain, by Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Ainoa Mateos, M. Angels Balsells and Mª Jose Rodrigo
Chapter 10: The "Making My Story"-Project in Brazil, by Monica Vidiz, Lara Naddeo and Debora Vigevani
PART III: CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chapter 11: Concluding Remarks, by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi Petersen
Afterword, by Nigel Patrick Thomas