Alicia Boatswain-Kyte
Dr. Alicia Boatswain-Kyte is a social worker and Assistant Professor at McGill University with over fifteen years of clinical experience working with marginalized individuals, families, and groups in child protection. Her research centres around systemic oppression of racialized individuals and how this contributes to their unequal representation within systems of social control. To combat this oppression, her work seeks to facilitate service accessibility to marginalized populations.
Dr. Boatswain-Kyte was the Research Project Coordinator for the Côte des Neiges Black Community Association’s (CDNBCA) Strengthening Black Families Program. She worked on the Building Research Capacity with First Nations and Mainstream Youth Protection Services in Québec (BRC) project to better understand service trajectories using longitudinal clinical administrative data. Dr. Boatswain-Kyte made the Dean’s Honor List and was a recipient of both the Henry Oelberg and Miriam and E. Michael Berger fellowships at McGill University. Her doctoral research was the first Québec study to longitudinally describe the disparate service trajectory of Black children reported to the child welfare system. Findings from this research were presented during the Québec Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection and demonstrated the need for more responses tailored to Black children and their families.
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– A Critical Examination of Youth Service Trajectories: Black Children’s Transition from Child Welfare to Youth Justice
– “We Want Our Own Data!” Building Black Community Accountability in The Collection of Health Data Using a Black Emancipatory Action Research (Bear) Approach
– Racisme Anti-Noir, Profilage Racial Et Le Système De Protection De La Jeunesse Au Québec
– Black In the Classroom: Teaching Anti-Oppressive Practice in White Spaces
– Impacts Of Race on Family Reunification: A Longitudinal Study Comparing Exits from Québec’s Child Welfare System
– Anti-Racist Education in Social Work: An Exploration of Required Undergraduate Social Work Courses in Québec
– A Longitudinal Jurisdictional Study of Black Children Reported to Child Protection Services in Québec, Canada
– La Récurrence Chez Les Jeunes Ayant Reçu Des Services En Protection De La Jeunesse : L’exemple D’un Centre Jeunesse Du Québec
– Building Community Accountability: Addressing The Overrepresentation and Disparity Faced by Black Children Reported to The Child Welfare System in Québec
– Impacts De La COVID-19 Sur Les Jeunes Racisés En Transition Vers L’éducation Postsecondaire: Médiation Des Voies De L’exclusion Sociale Vers L’inclusion
Transforming Black Lives was founded with the mission to transform the lives of Black children and youths in Canada. With a history rooted in advocacy and community engagement, we have continuously worked to address systemic issues affecting Black communities.
