Understanding the Seismic Shifts in that are Shaking Canada Youths

Question: Discuss about theUnderstanding the Seismic Shifts in that are Shaking Canada Youths. Answer: Introduction The article describes major issues affecting the Canadian youths. The first theme revolves around the diverse nature of Canadian population where around 16% of youth belong to a minority group (ORourke, 2012). Furthermore, the youth are leaving to major cities to seek education and employment opportunities. It is interesting to note that the education level has increased over the last ten years between 2000 and 2010 that is evident by increased enrollment rate in tertiary institutions and secondary schools. However, the youths from rural and low-income communities have high rate of school drop outs compared to those from urban centers. The high school dropouts have low chances of being employed and those lucky to be employed record low quality job performance (ORourke, 2012). The article further highlights various barriers to further education that are majorly poor family backgrounds and high cost of post-secondary education. This has created huge debt loads for the students forcing them to stop after attaining secondary education thus creating huge disparity in income compared to the university graduates. According to report, the youth unemployment doubles the national average forcing some graduates to move into low-skill jobs. The poverty also remains high among the Canadian youths (33.3%) that is associated with poor health status since high-income youths reported low levels of diabetes and asthma (ORourke, 2012). The report further highlights negative effects of technology among youths including cyberbullying, increased inactivity and stress causing increased cases of obesity. Though smoking rates have dropped among Canadian youths, those from low income families have higher smoking habits compared to their counterparts from highest income families. Furthermore, the youths especially girls are at high risk of experiencing emotional distress causing high medical expenditure in Canada. However, there were some positive finding from the reports including decreased crime activities among youths. Credibility and trustworthiness The report is credible and thus the information provided can be consumed by the audiences. Accessing credibility of information is important in research due to increased source thus one has to determine the sources that can be trusted. In order to evaluate credibility of this report one has to check the sources of data contained in the report. With this regard the report has used credible sources comprising mostly the scholarly works that have been published in the referred journals. The author used high quality resources to support his arguments regarding Canadian youth problems thus enhancing the credibility and trustworthiness of the report. Critical information contained in the report has been cited well and the reference list provided at the end of the document. Furthermore, the objective and the tone of the language used in writing the report is impartial thus raising its credibility. Consequently, the report has been written by a scholar who is expert the youth sociology. The document is also free of grammar and spelling errors. Intersectionality There is interconnection among the social categorization like class, gender and race as they apply to the youths. The role of race and gender was eminent from in this report. The findings concerning various attributes and problems facing the youths were compared for the different races. The report compared unemployment rates among countries such as France, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, UK, Poland and South Africa; these countries represent different races. The race also played significant role in the phenomena studied and it was reported that that the race affected social behavior of youths. The Aboriginal youths in grade 9 to 10 living off-reserve reported high cases of smoking compared non-Aboriginal counterparts. Recent studies focusing on discourses about role of race in society have indicated that race affects individuals decision and thoughts. It is encouraging to note that a shift in attitudes and beliefs has minimized racial discrimination in the US especially between Blacks and Wh ites. The intersectionality in this report has therefore paid sufficient detail to social location. The classwork covered sufficiently on the research methodologies. The class work has helped me in identifying various social constructs with race being the main one. The social constructs provide background to researches relating to societal problems since the majority racial groups tend to cause undue suffering to the minority ones. The classwork also helped in understanding how deviant behavior among people affects the society. This is important for the current research to identify youth problems focusing on cause and effect of deviant behavior. Social Service Work Practice The social workers provide support and social support to individuals in need including families and the community. They work in variety of setting like schools, hospitals, domestic setting, health clinics, community centers and private practice. The findings from this research help social workers to develop best solution to youth problems such as unemployment, distress from use of technology, crime and drug abuse. For social workers to effectively help the needy persons, it is important to understand the underlying issues. This report highlights various problems affecting youths including rising cost of education and difficulty in getting jobs. This therefore calls for considerations of various models during their study to achieve accurate results that can help in transforming societal problems. The models appropriate for the current study are discussed below. Implications for social service practice The research has indicated there are numerous youths in Canada who cannot fulfil basic and secondary needs. This means that the social service is needed in Canada to help the vulnerable youths to get social justice and right to education. The youths staying in rural communities are reported to face difficulties in accessing post-secondary education while some started abusing drugs at early age. The social workers need to rise and voice concerns of unemployed youths whose voices are not being heard. The social workers have to tackle issues mentioned in the report to help youth reach their potential and make Canada a better place to live. The social workers also have to dedicate their time and resources to enable youths take action to improve their lives. This can be achieved by coming up with innovative ways to resolve challenges facing the youths. Social justice theory The theory of social justice tends to solves various problems of distributive justice by applying device of social contract. Justice is a term commonly used to refer to consequent distribution of burden and benefits. This model advocates for individuals to be accorded with what is due to them. This theory can be applied to current study to help in integrating balance of the society through the responsibilities of leaders as per the qualities of social justice. The theory provides rich ground for understanding social, political and moral philosophy that is relevant to answering problems relating to social justice among the youths. The model further advances the principle arrangements in light of laws and rules that govern how things can be owned, acquired or transferred in a system. This is important in understanding the role of public policy in addressing various problems affecting Canadian youths. This model recognizes the fact that conflict arises from unequal distribution of resou rce thus causing current state of suffering among youths from minority groups or low-income families. References ORourke, D. (2012). Understanding the seismic shifts in that are shaking Canadas youths. Community Foundations of Canada and Vital Signs, 1-16.