Performative Youth Work: The Staging of Care for Black Youth in Out-of-Home Care in Ontario’s Child Welfare System
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Abstract
The present article focuses on findings from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 27 Black Caribbean youth (ages 16–26) with experience in out-of-home care in the Ontario child welfare system. Participants reported feeling that they did not have any input during their time in out-of-home care and discussed various factors undermining their voice in decision-making processes. Salient themes include: (1) a lack of “care” from caregivers, (2) the existence of performative youth work and a need for authenticity, and (3) the need to center youth voice. Conceptualizations of anti-Black racism, youth agency, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child guide the analysis with recommendations for policy and practice.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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