Final Thoughts on Project Gracehaven
I think up until this point, I have highly generalised the learning I gained from Project Gracehaven. However, I do contend that there are many personal lessons that I have learnt during my time with the residents there. To reiterate, working with Gracehaven was a highly bittersweet experience for me. If given the chance to work in a similar capacity but with a more cooperative organisation as a caveat, I would love to work with youths-at-risk again. The first lesson I learnt is that we should not treat these youths as outliers; that they are different from us. Committing 'othering' is a fallacy that most people who work with these youths-at-risk commit. They are not different from us in any way. Yes, they live in a residential home and yes they have their reasons for being there, but they are human, the same as you and me. I think my group mates, and myself included, committed this fallacy during the first session of the workshop. We had our biases, we had our own generalisa...
