About Paul
Paul became interested in graffiti as a young adolescent and has been a child and youth care practitioner since 2003. Having spent the greater part of his career working with at-risk youth in day treatment, Paul understands the power of the arts in fostering young people through education, counselling, identity building, and civic engagement related pursuits. Over the past few years Paul has become an avid researcher and has authored a number of articles on arts-based approaches, reflective practices, and ethics in the field of child and youth care (see publications section). Furthermore, he has facilitated arts-based programs and workshops across a variety of settings (i.e. day treatment, mainstream/alternative education, neighbourhood, child welfare, and youth-justice settings), and is part of a grassroots collective that secured an initiative to render Donevan Skatepark into Oshawa's first, legal, urban art park.