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ALIGN Research Series Hosts Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi
In this presentation, Dr. Gharabaghi centers on residential group care and explores the tensions between good practices that emanate from evidence and instrumental scientism on the one hand and good experiences for young people that emanate from the spontaneous engagement between caregivers and young people in everyday moments. He argues that The point of evidence is not to replicate particular patterns of therapeutic interventions repeatedly. Instead, the point is to value those moments that fall outside of the expected patterns of interactions and shape these intentionally to create the memories that carry young people through life long after they have left the setting. We pay far too much attention to evidence as a forward-looking indicator of what ought to happen and not enough attention to evidence as a retrospective measure of how young people from residential care have lived safe, confident, and courageous lives based on foundations that emerged during their time in residential care.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi is the dean of the Faculty of Community Services at Toronto Metropolitan University. Previous to this, he was the John C. Eaton Chair of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Director of the School of Child and Youth Care, both at Toronto Metropolitan as well. Dr. Gharabaghi started his career in residential care settings for children and youth in the 1980s. Over a period of 25 years, he worked directly with young people, managed not-for-profit youth serving programs in child welfare, child and youth mental health, and youth homelessness, and provided family support services to newcomer families. Since joining academic life, he has published 11 books, including A Hard Place to Call Home: A Canadian Perspective on Residential Care (Canadian Scholars Press, 2019), and over 300 scholarly, professional, and creative writings. His own background is marked by both forced and voluntary migrations spanning three continents, multiple languages, and engagement with multiple faith groups.
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