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.

It is engaging and insightful...the book spotlights the value of children's voices and explores how children's rights to participation may be placed at the forefront of policy, research, and practice.

• Foreword, by Marit SkivenesAcknowledgmentsContributor BiosChapter 1: Introduction by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi PetersenPART I: CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS CHANGE AGENTSChapter 2: The Change Factory's Participation in Social Work Education in Norway, by Roar SundbyChapter 3: Child-directed Child Welfare Research and Development in Denmark, by Mimi PetersenChapter 4: Care Leavers' Participation in Designing Child Welfare Services and Policy in Israel, by Talia Meital Schwartz-Tayri and Hadas LotanChapter 5: Children Claiming the Right to Live Without Violence in Nicaragua, by Harry ShierPART 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 ReimerChapter 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 RodrigoChapter 10: The "Making My Story"-Project in Brazil, by Monica Vidiz, Lara Naddeo and Debora VigevaniPART III: CONCLUDING REMARKSChapter 11: Concluding Remarks, by Katrin Kri%z and Mimi PetersenAfterword, by Nigel Patrick Thomas