C2Y: Discussions on Child and Youth Care

This episode is a conversation with Sean Muir the founder and executive director of The Healthy Aboriginal Network (HAN). The Healthy Aboriginal Network creates “Culturally Appropriate, Certified Aboriginal” comic books. Each comic deals with a different topic that directly affects aboriginal communities across Canada. Sean talks about issues facing aboriginal youth, how HAN started, and the impact of using comics on changing behaviours.

In November 2011, for the first time in the history of Canada, people currently and formally living “in care” had hearings at a provincial legislature. Organized and run by young people, the Office of the Ontario Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth held the hearings over two days at Queens Park, the location of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Wendy and Rasheeda, two of the young people involved in making the hearings happen, talk about the hearings, the report that came from the hearings, called My Real Life Book (click on link to go to website and download a copy of the report), and responses to the report.