Hiring Care is an audio drama inquiry created from one-on-one conversations with 10 child and youth care practitioners (CYCPs) “from care” (CYCPfC). Most of the script is verbatim, meaning the words spoken by the actors are (mostly) re-enactments of what CYCPfC said in the conversations. The conversations have been re-arranged and different CYCPfC have been put into relationships with each other, even though they never actually spoke with each other during the recorded conversations. Three of the characters (B, Ellisha, and Terri) are composites of two different people.
Hiring Care is constructed as a conversation between a group of seven CYCPs “from care” (CYCPfC) who are meeting to talk about creating a way to support agencies who want to hire practitioners with child welfare experience. This frame for the structure came out of an idea mentioned by one of the conversationalists (Charlotte), who said she and some of her colleagues “wanted to create a booklet about how to support someone with lived experience in care in your organization, who works for you”. Hiring Carehas seven different episodes, each one introduced by a different character and addressing different themes, although there are some overlaps between the different episodes.
While the script follows a chronological order, it is not necessary to listen to them in a particular order. You might find it more relevant to pick specific themes (identified with each episode) and listen to that particular conversation.
To learn more about the project, please visit www.TuningIntoCYC.org
The group finds common ground identifying the many ways they felt failed by their time in the child welfare system.
Themes/Key words: Child Protection Services, First Voice, Failures of the Care System
Threshold Concepts in CYC Education
How Do We Know? A duet from Shadan Hyder and Colleen Snell
Mindfulness in CYC Education with Dr. Mary Ventrella & Dr. Christine Slavik
Self as CYC Educator, an arts-based reflection from Matty Hillman
Reflections on being a part of the CYC Education Process: Challenges, innovations & Changes, Shared Wisdom
CYC Education in Rural and Remote Settings with Kelly Shaw, Jenny Oliver, and Ocean Wyatt
Learning from Life, Teaching to Care, A presentation from Joe Blake
It's OK to Be Brown, a CYC Education Day 2018 presentation from Dr. Jaspreet Bal
Online CYC Education, a conversation with Graham McPheat
The Importance of Child and Youth Care Work
From life, to art, to practice, a conversation with James Graham
Young, Trans, and Racialized, Turning Life Into Art, a conversation with Jordan Hightower
Believing In Youth: For Youth Initiative
Gender-Based Violence, a Conversation with Veronique Church-Duplessis of White Ribbon, pt.2
Gender-Based Violence, a Conversation with Veronique Church-Duplessis of White Ribbon, pt.1
Unrealistic Expectations in Post-Secondary: Impact on Mental Health
Responding to Sexual Predation in the Music Industry, a conversation with Mike Yorke
The Problem is Not The Problem- It's The Way You View the Problem That's The Problem
Moving Home: The Art and Embodiment of Transience Among Youth Emerging from Canada‘s Child Welfare System
Looking Beyond Race; Telling Your Story Through Music
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