PATHWAYS - Centre for Research on Children and Young Peoples Vulnerable Institutional Pathways
PATHWAY research centre studies children’s and young people’s movements in, between and out of institutions and services. “Vulnerable institutional pathways” refers to children and youths’ exposure to different institutional logics, how they are moved/moves between institutions, escape from institutions and vulnerabilities connected to life transitions, e.g., turning 18 years old and moving out of institutions. PATHWAYS explore the inter-twining of care and control functions in various institutional arenas where professional practices are highly regulated and will analyse these from a procedural justice perspective.The centre employs a comparative, interdisciplinary and cross-professional approach, and undertakes child- and youth-centred research with the goal to generate new knowledge and build practice capacity in supporting and improving children and young people’s institutional experiences within and journeys through Child Welfare Services, Services for Children and Youth with Disabilities, Health Services for Children and Youth, Correctional Services and the welfare and employment centre (shortened Institutions of care and control, ICC). PATHWAYS consist of 21 researchers and 3 PhD. students organised in six work packages. A common issue is to develop knowledge of the blind spots associated with children and young people encountering multiple ICCs, illuminating children and young people’s journeys through different types of ICC, safeguarding children and young people’s experiences of transitions in their lives, identify procedural weaknesses and injustices and developing innovative design suggestions for institutions which are tailored to the needs of children, young people and their families. VID Specialized University is the host institution together with our academic partners KRUS, NORCE, NTNU and HIOF. Practice partners are BUF etat east, The Correctional services with Youth Units and prisons, Tverrfaglig.no, NAV, NAKU and Salto. Experts by experience are an earlier prisoner and gang member, LBB, User council at Vestfold Probation Office and LUPE. Through active collaboration with our partners the overarching aim of the centre is to connect the fields of research, education and practice with users in order to develop innovative institutional settings. This comprises physical spaces that promote children and young people’s participation and facilitate the delivery of social work, milieu therapy, milieu work and relational practices that meet children and young people’s needs for care and control.
Project facts
Name
PATHWAYS - Centre for Research on Children and Young Peoples Vulnerable Institutional Pathways
Status
Active
Duration
01.12.24 - 31.12.29
Total budget
30.000.000 NOK
