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Prior to his academic appointment, Henry Parada spent nine years working as a child protection worker, conducting family counseling, and working as a sexual abuse specialist within Toronto’s social service sector. His academic experience includes working in the Caribbean, Central America, and other parts of Latin America on issues of child protection, human rights, and youth participation. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at Ryerson University and has guest lectured at universities in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Honduras. Henry Parada’s combined research expertise includes the areas of social development, children’s and women’s social welfare, and violence prevention. He has also developed practical skills in the areas of counseling, development, and social work. As a committed action-oriented researcher, he has valuable national and international expertise facilitating the gathering of relevant knowledge.

Publications

  • “I Don’t Want Anyone to Follow My Path:” Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic
  • Evaluation of Centres for the Integral Attention of Children in Dominican Republic
  • Reimagining anti-oppression social work: Reflecting on Research.
  • Incidence of Violence Against Youth in Dominican Republic
  • Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World, Canadian.
  • “I Just Want to Belong Somewhere”: Latinx Youth’s Experiences in the Education System in Ontario, Canada
  • Granada, a City Under Siege: Dynamics of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children as a Human Rights Issue In Nicaragua
  • Etnografía Institucional del Sistema de Protección de la Republica Dominicana
  • Canada
  • Reimagining anti-oppression social work: Reflection on Practice.
  • Child sexual commercial exploitation in Nicaragua: A critical globalization perspective
  • Monográfico Infancias y juventudes latinoamericanas y caribeñas: violencias, migraciones, desplazamientos, estigmas y re‐existencia.
  • Many households but never a home: stories of resistance from Black youth navigating placement instability in Ontario’s child welfare system
  • Performativity Culture in Universities: Social Work Fabrications
  • “Essential cogs in the innovation machine”: The discourse of innovation in Ontario educational reform
  • Regional Perpectives . . . from Latin America
  • Worry about professional education: Emotions and affect in the context of neoliberal change in postsecondary education
  • Explorando el sistema de protección de la niñez en Honduras
  • Going home: Social work across and about borders
  • Emerging practices of social work in the Dominican Republic
  • Children, Youths, and Resilience
  • Black youth disengaging from Ontario's educational system
  • Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada
  • Exploring the Practices of Refugee Settlement Practitioners in Toronto: An Institutional Ethnography
  • A social work re-reading of students as consumers
  • The changing status and growth of social work education worldwide: Process, findings and implications of the IASSW 2010 census
  • Social Work in Latin America
  • The Mestizo Refuses to Confess: Masculinity from the Standpoint of a Latin American Man in Toronto
  • Evaluation of Centres for the Integral Attention of Children in Dominican Republic (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP)
  • The promise of migration : a companion to the International Metropolis Conference 2019, Ottawa, Canada
  • Latinx Experiences in the Ontario Education System: Race, Invisibility, and Capital
  • “We were in White homes as Black children:” Caribbean youth’s stories of out-of-home care in Ontario, Canada
  • Explorando el sistema de protección de la niñez en El Salvador
  • “I don’t want anyone to follow my path:” Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic
  • Pushed, Dropped, or Fleeing from Care: The Narratives and Adultification of Black Youth Who Have Aged out of Ontario’s Child Welfare System
  • Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system : Grounded theory of their educational experiences
  • Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system : Grounded theory of their educational experiences
  • “Do white parents feel the same?”: Latin American and Black Caribbean parents fighting for participation in partnership-oriented education
  • “I Feel Like I Was Targeted:” Black Youth Navigating Policing in Ontario, Canada
  • Understanding the Over-representation of Latin American children in Ontario child welfare services
  • “Parents don’t know they have the option to say no”: the experiences of Caribbean and Latin American parents navigating special education in Ontario
  • The Overrepresentation of Latin American Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System : Findings from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019
  • Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice
  • Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice
  • Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Research
  • Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Research

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