Video Project

The Video Project: Seeing the voices of children and youth, Setting the record straight

This project is developing tools for incorporating the voices of
children and
youth into their own child welfare records through the use of
video captured in
regular monthly visits.
We are currently developing both the protocol to make it happen
within regular
worker visits and sets of questions that can help a child to tell,
own and claim
his/her story.
For each child, the video is about strengths; putting ones best
foot forward,
telling his/her own true story, what he/she remembers,
experience(d), what
he/she was told and what each of them thinks of it now and
what he/she hopes
for the future. It is also a record of strengths, hopes and plans
that can represent
the young person more completely than current records and
referrals.
It's about hope, healing and self determination. and of course
it is always about
permanence.