Child and Youth Care

With a Canadian focus this book examines all active child and youth care sectors across the human services including: challenges, opportunities, residential care, foster homes, schools, cyberspace, services that support Quebecois, deaf, autism, LGBTQ+ communities and more.

With a Canadian focus that aims to reflect the changing field of child and youth care. Examining topics ranging from homelessness to immigration, antiracism, African-centred praxis, Indigenous ways of being, and additional settings of child and youth care.

This resource helps prepare students for practicum and expand their self-awareness. Discusses challenges and difficulties they will encounter in the field and includes checklists of child and youth care competencies, practical exercises, scenario examples and more.

Integrates research and practice and provides specific examples of applied interventions and prevention programs Broad system perspective on trauma as related to the individual, family, school and community.

As child and youth care practitioners increasingly engage with children, youth, and their families impacted by mental health concerns, the need for supporting resources is higher than ever. Recognizing the importance of mental health literacy, specifically designed to meet the professional practice needs of child and youth care practitioners.

Provides an overview of risk and protective factors for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth and emerging adults to inform the clinical practice of mental health professionals who work with this population. Grounded in multicultural, intersectional, and positive youth development frameworks, emphasizes holistic health perspectives, integrated care approaches and interdisciplinary team efforts targeting both the psychological and physical health needs of children, adolescents, and emerging adults.

This book proposes a template for improving community living outcomes for youth leaving residential mental health programs. Includes theory and evidence from multiple fields including education, juvenile justice, child welfare, and more.

A comprehensive view of adolescent development and explores effective ways to support teens who are having difficulties. Examines protective and risk factors, assessment and intervention strategies, and includes case examples.

Looking at a wide range of areas (rural, urban, displacements and mobilities) this book investigates how young people adapt to social change, negotiate belonging in everyday life, and provides insight into young people’s identities.

A holistic and cross-cutting sociological introduction and analysis of what it means to 'grow up' in the modern world which will make perfect reading for those studying childhood and youth.

Available at: Orillia
Reviews the five domains of Child and Youth Care (CYC) core competencies: professionalism, cultural and human diversity, applied human development, relationship and communication, and developmental practice methods.

Available at: Barrie, Orillia, Owen Sound
Child welfare for Indigenous peoples must be informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings. This collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system.

Available at: Orillia
Discusses children’s rights in Canada and the disconnect that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children, or that all children will be free to enjoy the substance of their rights in every social and institutional context in which they find themselves, including - and perhaps especially - within families.

Available at: Barrie
Addresses the need for systemic change both in and outside of the Canadian health care system. Examines traditional determinants of health-social such as economic, environmental, and behavioural elements, and additional factors such as family and community, government policies, mental health and addiction, disease, homelessness and housing, racism, youth, and LGBTQ.