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Growing Up in Armyville - Canada's Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission (Paperback)
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Growing Up in Armyville - Canada's Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission (Paperback)
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It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed
Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous "Armyville," Canada, were
scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville
school district were destined to be affected by this and several
subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented
such a new and volatile situation that the school district
lacked--as indeed most Canadians lacked--the understanding required
for an optimum organizational response. Growing Up in Armyville
provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville
High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental
health compare with that of their peers elsewhere in Canada? How
were their lives affected by the Afghanistan mission--at home, at
school, among their friends, and when their parents returned with
post-traumatic stress disorder? How did the youngsters cope with
the stress? What did their efforts cost them? Based on questions
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth,
administered to all youth attending AHS in 2008, and on in-depth
interviews with sixty-one of the youth from CAF families, this book
provides some answers. It also documents the partnership that
occurred between the school district and the authors' research
team. Beyond its research findings, this pioneering book considers
the past, present, and potential role of schools in supporting
children who have been affected by military deployments. It also
assesses the broader human costs to CAF families of their enforced
participation in the volatile overseas missions of the twenty-first
century.
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