C2Y: Discussions on Child and Youth Care
Society & Culture
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
In their first conversation as a group, 5 child and youth care practitioners from care (CYCPfC) talk about trying to work in the same system that raised them. After some awkward moments, the group seeks common ground through identifying the challenges of being in care and the wisdom/benefits they take into their work.
Themes/Key words: Identity, Empathy, Compassion, Trauma
Living With Invisible Pain
A conversation with Juanita Stephen and Peter Amponsah from the Child and Youth Care Alliance for Racial Equity (CARE)
Integrating Responsive, Embodied Ethics: Un-settling the Praxis of White Settler CYC Practitioners. A conversation with Kaz MacKenzie.
Individualized Approach: Working with Youth Who Have Addictions
Rights-Based Relational Practice with Refugee Young People: A conversation with Dr. Jen Couch
Navigating and resisting mixed ethnicity stigmas
Care in Child and Youth Care: A conversation with Dr. Mark Smith
Putting a No-Name label on Ontario: Closing of the Ontario Child Advocates Office
Cultural safety, geographical privilege, and the politics of working in Northern Canada, a conversation with Marleigh Pirnasar
A Reflection on 2018
Threshold Concepts in CYC: A conversation with Dr. Laura Steckley
Ontario Without a Child Advocate: recording of Nov. 29 press conference from the Ontario Children’s Advocacy Coalition
Understanding Non-Financial Barriers to Black Queer Youth Transitions from High School to College Pt. 2
Arrabon House: Fitting Programming Around Young People
Understanding Non-Financial Barriers to Black Queer Youth Transitions from High School to College Pt. 1
Fitting The Program Around The Youth: Residential Group Homes
Institutional Care for Children in Trinidad and Tobago, a conversation with Dr. Petra Roberts
CYC Education: A Black Experience with Sabrin Hassan
The trauma informed Child and Youth Care classroom with Donna Reid
Threshold Concepts in CYC Education
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