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Re-envisioning care relationships in the human services
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SSHRC IG awarded 2024: Despite a growing body of scholarship that suggests that engaging in more reciprocal relations in the human services can reduce the marginalization of service users and improve the well-being of all involved (service users, frontline workers, and managers), frontline workers are typically discouraged from engaging relationally with service users. This project will collaboratively investigate the possibilities for reciprocal care relationships in the human services. Informed by feminist and disability justice theories of care, the project brings together service users, frontline workers, and managers, to re-envision care relationships based upon the notion of 'caring with' others, rather than 'caring for' others. The team with existing research partners will use a combination of participatory methods, including arts-based activities and social mapping, to collaboratively re-envision care relationships with participants from the human services. Participants will be recruited from housing services organizations (18 total participants): six service users, six frontline workers, and six managers. Participants will be split into three groups and each group will each participate in four participatory workshops to explore their experiences of care (both in/out of human services), possibilities for 'caring with' and reciprocal care relationships, and to co-construct strategies that could inform care practices in the human services. Following the above activities, the research team, along with up to six participants, will analyze the data generated in the workshops using theory-informed and community-engaged thematic analysis methods. This project has the potential to revitalize how care relationships are co-constructed in the human services. To this end, the project learnings will be collaboratively mobilized through a community seminar and podcast series, two academic papers, and two conference presentations.
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- 2023-10-03
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- ©️Barlott, Timothy E. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.