Sociétés et Jeunesses en Difficulté (Jan 2009)
La médiation partenariale en contexte intersectoriel : intervention sociale en émergence, codéveloppement professionnel et recherche
Abstract
Mediation in context of intersector-based partnership : new social practice, professionnal, codeveloppement and research. In North America, as well as in Europe, the children, the youth and the family are central in government’s priorities. In Quebec, the implementation of youth intervention team’s coordinators contributes to the emergence of a new social practice : intersector-based mediation. Endowed with a regional mandate, the coordinators support organisations from diverse sectors such as health, social services or education so that they partner to resolve diverse issues. Clinical, administrative or collaborative concerns can hinder the coordination and implementation of services to young people and their families. This article relates to a case study of a specific partnership problem that was discussed among a team of Quebec coordinators involved in a professional codevelopment process. It illustrates the approach of an in-service training group that they formed to define and develop their new social practice. The experiment lived in this context opens the way for a research project that will model this new practice of intersector-based mediation in the field of intervention with teenagers and childrens living multiple problems.
