Child and Youth Care in Action V: Embracing Challenge conference program
During this conference, we want to celebrate the depth and breadth of our field nationally and internationally. Practitioners and researchers everywhere find themselves embracing multiple real-world and theoretical challenges as part of their everyday working lives. With the intention of embracing these challenges, we welcome you to two days of presentations, conversations and meetings at the University of Victoria. Practitioners will share their successful interventions and programs, and researchers will share findings that their Child and Youth Care related inquiries have generated.
Here are information about our keynote presentations, a brief program overview and a link to the full conference program.
Child and Youth Care in Action V: Embracing Challenge full conference program
| Looking Forward: Then and Now: Keynote with Alan Pence and Jeffrey Ansloos
This presentation draws on lived experiences of two faculty members in the School of Child and Youth Care, Dr. Alan Pence and Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos. Alan Pence is one of the longest serving professors at the School of Child and Youth Care and Jeffrey Ansloos is one of the most recently appointed. Together, they discuss characteristics of their experiences in the field of child and youth care, the nature of ‘looking forward’ from their vocational vantage points, relationships between ‘then and now’, and how some of their own experiences prior to joining the School of Child and Youth Care have influenced their work within the field and their plans for the future. |
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Alan Pence, PhD, is the UNESCO Chair for Early Childhood Education, Care and Development (ECD) and Professor, School of Child and Youth Care. Before coming to UVic in 1980, he had been employed in child and youth care for ten years, serving as an early childhood educator, rural programs coordinator, and director of early childhood, school-age, and residential special needs care programs. Prior to 1990 Alan undertook research addressing family, labor force participation, and child care issues. In 1989 he was invited by a large tribal council to co-develop a culturally and community sensitive approach to post-secondary education. That project, the First Nations Partnerships Program (FNPP), subsequently partnered with nine other tribal organizations. In 1994 UNICEF requested his support to promote capacity for ECD in Africa. Starting with a series of multi-week Institutes, that work led to: the launch of an African ECD Conference series (1999-2009); funding to develop an online graduate program (ECDVU, 2000-present); and scholarly workshops designed to promote African led-research (2008-present). Since 1981 Alan has served as PI or Co-PI for over 70 research and development projects from 25-plus funders worth over 14 million dollars. He is a frequent international keynote and workshop presenter. He has authored over 130 journal articles and chapters and edited or authored twelve books on a variety of child care and development topics. He is the recipient of UVic’s inaugural Craigdarroch Research Award for Societal Contributions, the Canadian Bureau for International Education’s Award for Educational Leadership, and a finalist for the international WISE Awards for innovation in education. |
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Jeffrey Ansloos, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care,at the University of Victoria. Prior to joining the School in 2016, Jeffrey was an Assistant Professor of International Mental Health at Lesley University and served as the Director of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, leading a UNICEF partnership in Guyana and Nicaragua. Jeffrey researches theory, practices and policies in youth violence prevention, indigeneity, migration, mental health, digital youth culture, human rights and ethics. Jeffrey has worked in the human service sector for over a decade, and draws on his experiences as a youth worker, community organizer, non-profit manager, clinical psychologist, and international development strategic planner. Jeffrey is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, Fuller Graduate Schools, and Trinity Western University, holding a BA in Counseling, MA in Refugee Mental Health, MA in Theology and Ethics, and PhD in Clinical Psychology. Jeffrey is also a registered psychologist with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia, a fellow of the Centre for Youth and Society, a fellow of the Indigenous Digital Humanities Network, and a fellow of the UNAOC. |
| The Future is Not What it Used to Be: Keynote Dialogue/Communilogue with Jim Anglin and Mandeep Mucina
This is a time of important transition for the School of Child and Youth Care, - a unique situation not experienced for over 35 years - when 3 new faculty members are joining the faculty at the same time. Jim and Mandeep share some interesting conjunctions as well as disjunctions which they will explore in a light-hearted manner while touching on some significant challenges and opportunities for child and youth care as a rapidly evolving and global profession. How can CYC be congruent in its values and principles across both practice and formal education, including distance learning? What have we learned over our history about diversity and pluralism, and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead? Where does our work need to take us in the increasingly complex international context of children youth, families and communities? We invite all conference participants to join us in transforming our dialogue into a communilogue on our shared futures. |
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Jim Anglin, PhD, began his career as a child and youth care worker in a mental health centre in Vancouver after which he moved to Victoria and began a 6-bed group home for four boys and two girls who were experiencing a variety of distresses in their lives. Following these front-line work experiences, he pursued graduate studies and then spent two years in social policy work in Ottawa and two years as a Senior Project Coordinator with the Children’s Services Division in Toronto. Returning to B.C. in 1979, he joined the faculty of the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria where he is a full Professor and former Director. His major research interests have focused on a re-appreciation of residential care for children and youth (e.g. Pain, Normality and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth, Routledge, 2002). Currently, he is involved in researching and documenting the implementation and impact of a principle-based approach to residential care with colleagues from the Bronfenbrenner Centre for Translational Research at Cornell University. He has published in North American and international journals and child welfare texts on a variety of child and youth care issues. He is on the editorial boards of Child and Youth Services, International Journal of Child and Family Welfare, Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, and Reclaiming Youth at Risk. He has also visited child and youth care programs and offered keynotes, workshops and seminars in over 40 countries – focusing on extra-familial care with young people, creating theory from qualitative data, and the evolution of CYC as a global profession. |
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Mandeep Kaur Mucina came to the University of Victoria’s Child and Youth Care as an undergraduate student 17 years ago and has now joined the School of Child and Youth Care as an Assistant Professor. Mandeep has worked with children, youth and families in various contexts including after school care, youth programming, and child protection. After completing her Bachelor’s degree, Mandeep worked in Vancouver on the Aboriginal family services team, where she supported the reunification of in-care Indigenous children and youth and their families. During this transformative time, Mandeep also began working with young girls and women involved with child protection who were survivors of family, domestic, and sexualized violence. The resiliency and resistance that these women and girls continued to demonstrate inspired Mandeep to pursue her Masters in Social Work (MSW) to further her knowledge of and practice in the gender-based violence sector. After completing her MSW and working with migrant families struggling with family violence, Mandeep went on to complete her doctorate in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institue of Studies in Education. Here she focused her research and work on “honour” related violence in the South Asian Diaspora and gathered life histories of women who encountered “honour” related violence, yet continue to resist, reclaim, and transgress the boundaries of “honour” throughout their lives. Since completing her doctorate, Mandeep has been teaching in Schools of Social Work and Child and Youth Care at major universities across Canada, most recently at Dalhousie University. Mandeep’s research and social justice work focuses on family violence, gender-based violence, and exploring second-generation immigrant youths’ stories of resistance, identity and cultural engagement in Canada, all from a feminist anti-racist, anti-colonial standpoint. |
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| TIME | Thursday, April 27, 2017 | |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
Buffet Breakfast in the lobby of David Strong Building | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Territory/Land Acknowledgment and Prayer by Elders Voices, Elders from the First Peoples House, UVic
Opening Remarks by Tricia Marck, Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Development Opening Remarks by Sibylle Artz and Marie Hoskins, Conference Co-Chairs Keynote Presentation: Alan Pence and Jeffrey Paul Ansloos |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
Nutrition Break - lobby of the David Strong Building | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM |
Concurrent Sessions: | Presenters: |
| Decolonization and Transformation to IndigenEYEZ (Workshop) |
Sue Sterling-Bur, Kelly Terbasket | |
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Nature: A space for reflection |
Sylvia Storry, Gaby Emmet | |
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Walking the talk (and stumbling): Complexities of employing a CYC approach in the online classroom |
Janet Newbury, Amber Rowse-Robinson, Lori Hamar | |
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Normalizing Deployment Separations for Canadian Children during the Afghanistan War |
Kristin Atwood | |
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DIVERSITY, VULNERABILITY AND YOUNG AGE: Deeper Perspective From Bangladesh |
Nazneen Akhter, M Salim Uzzaman | |
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The Implementation of “Children And Residential Experiences: Creating Conditions for Change” (Holden 2009) |
Anton Smith, Stacey Charchuk | |
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“I am Something Else. For Now”: Exploring Youth Conversations of Gender Online |
Mattie Walker | |
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When Children’s Bodies Challenge the Norm |
Connie Antonsen | |
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Indigenous Science: Rearing Children in Cultures of Respect |
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg |
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| Support of Children and Youth at Risk by their parents and significant others in the Community and in Residential Care: Implications for Practice and Research |
Shlomo Romi, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, Emmanuel Grupper |
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Foundations of Disaster Psychosocial Support |
Krista Tincher | |
| The Community Early Learning and Child Care Facilitators Project: Building Communities of Research and Leadership (Workshop) |
Kim Atkinson, Lexie Biegun | |
| 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM | Concurrent Sessions: | Presenters: |
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All In: Ethics of Care in Settler Societies (Workshop) |
Stephanie Brockett, Ben Anderson-Nathe, Sandrina de Finney, Nicole Land, Scott Kouri |
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Young People as Problem-Solver: Engagement, Participation and Voice |
Shay Erlich, Mandi Mayhew, Chris Tone | |
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Uganda, crisis in care: what is helping and what is not? (Paper) |
Ian Milligan | |
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Care- ‘Less’: Exploring the interface between care and control for workers in Children’s Homes in Ghana (Paper) |
Ernest Darkwah | |
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Innovations in Residential Care: Creative Solutions for Unique Challenges (Workshop) |
Brent Carbonell, Jack Penashue, Melinda Wellsman, Michelle Hawco | |
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Continuation from previous session: Indigenous Science: Rearing Children in Cultures of Respect (Workshop) |
Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg | |
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Continuation from previous session: Support of Children and Youth at Risk by their parents and significant others in the Community and in Residential Care: Implications for Practice and Research |
Shlomo Romi, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz, Emmanuel Grupper |
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Building Better Teams: Leadership in Community (Workshop) |
Amber McMillan | |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM |
Lunch on your own | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM |
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Sharing Circle: Values for Healing |
Victor Underwood with |
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Embodying self-care: Why mindfulness matters. Exploring stress experienced in child and youth care students during field-based practicum. (Workshop) |
Christine Slavik |
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The relational Model, Bridging Discourses between medical and social models of caring for young people diagnosed with autism |
Nancy Marshall, Saira Batasar |
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Let's Get Over Ourselves! Cyber-Space is Life-Space: A consideration of CYC Ethics Online (Paper) |
Colleen Kamps, Hailey Kavanagh, Amanda Mayhew |
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Outdoor Risky Play: Relevance for healthy child development in risk-averse times (Paper) |
Nevin Harper, Marlene Powers |
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Food for Thought: A Case for Culinary in the CYC Profession (Paper) |
Amber Rowse-Robinson | |
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Embracing the Challenges of Professionalism: The Future is Not What it used to Be (Panel) |
Jim Anglin, Emily Hellard, Janet Westcott, Leanne Rose |
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Traversing Threshold in Child and Youth Care Education: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Meaning-Making Experience of an International Study Tour Student Participants (Paper) |
Gerard Bellefeuille, Asma Ammouneh, Cassie Anthoney, Maya Beautista, Jack Deol, Kerry Heaney-Dalton, Lori Smith, Gabrielle St Pierre, Kelly-Ann Reid, Sarah Thang |
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Tastawâw (the space between two walls): Youth displacement, migration and movements (Paper) |
Jeffrey Paul Ansloos | |
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“Feeding two birds with one scone:” Community-level social justice initiatives and experiential learning for CYC students in Vancouver Island University’s Centre for Community Outreach and Care |
Teri Derksen, Ashleigh Martinflatt, Stephen Javorski, and CYC students | |
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School Based Child and Youth Care Practioner:The three C’s & the B word of social skill development (Workshop) |
Patricia Dunphy |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM |
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Enacting transdisciplinary conversations in child and youth care (Workshop) |
Nicole Land, Emily Coon, Shemine Gulamhusein, Narda Nelson, Angela Scott |
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| Technology Integration in Service Delivery: LifeBook as a Place for all Spaces | Emmie DeKort, Celine Cabral, Trisha Rolfe | |
| Going It Alone! The Journey of a Self-Employed CYC (Workshop) |
Deb Cockerton | |
| Arts-informed CYC in practice, education, and research (Paper) |
Wolfgang Vachon | |
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Toward a Child and Youth Care Approach to New Religious Movements: An Analysis of "Leaving Narratives" (Paper) |
Jessica Pratezina | |
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Enriching, engaging, and enlivening CYC practicum experiences: Lessons learned from a pilot project (Workshop) |
Jin-Sun Yoon, Lisa Gunderson, Maryann Gladstone, et al. |
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Seeking Minomadjin (harmony) through developmental evaluation (Paper) |
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen | |
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Creating Evidence Based Change through a Trauma Informed Lens: Translating Principles into Practice (Paper) |
Susan Hunt, Nicki Reyda | |
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Muslim Youth Radicalization: A Child and Youth Care Perspective |
Kate Hann, Libby Holmes, Anthony Passerelli |
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| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Nutrition Break - lobby of the David Strong Building | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM |
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A CYC approach to the operation of a refugee camp |
Luke Carty, Peter Lebuis, Colleen Kamps |
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At the CORE: Relational accountability as the heart of community collaboration (Paper) |
Carmen Rodriguez de France, Kristely Kelly | |
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Third-Wave Dervish: A CYC Autoethnographic Methodology (Paper) |
Shemine Gulamhusein | |
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Working Collaboratively with families to support children with ADHD (Workshop) |
Caroline Buzanko | |
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East and West sociocultural factors in children’s moral reasoning: Working with schools, families and communities around the globe. (Paper) |
Alice Ng, Saman Fouladirad, Arantxa Mascarenas, Jessie Lo, Catherine Ann Cameron |
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The experience of ‘institutional’ care: experiences and views of young adults from a diverse range of low, middle and high income countries (Paper) |
Ian Milligan |
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Involving Youth in Care in Research for Action: A “Career in Care” Perspective (Discussion) |
James Anglin, Lilia Zahareieva, Angela Scott & Deborah Rutman SHARE | |
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Collaborating with Carers (Workshop) |
Stephanie McCune | |
| Use of Technology and community-based Child and Youth Care Practices |
Jennifer Martin, Kiaras Gharabaghi, Joey Blake, Travonne Edwards, Annu Gaidhu, Matthew London, Joe Singh, Emily Clark |
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| TIME | Friday, April 28, 2017 | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Coffee and Tea available in the lobby of the David Strong Building | |
| 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Unveiling and celebrating the School of Child & Youth Care "Community Wellness" drum
Closing Remarks by Sibylle Artz and Marie Hoskins, Conference Co-Chairs Keynote Presentation: James Anglin and Mandeep Mucina |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Nutrition Break - lobby of the David Strong Building | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM |
Concurrent Sessions: |
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Making Meaning of Mindfulness in the Classroom (Workshop) |
Kristy Dellebuur O'Connor, Bryan Tesan |
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Staying Relevant Through Strategic Alliances (Workshop) |
Carinna Kenigsberg | |
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Young Carer Supports: A Global Perspective (Workshop) |
Heather Chalmers, Yana Lakman, Cayleigh Sexton, Michelle Lewis | |
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Young Bears Lodge - A Philosophy-driven Approach to Youth Substance-Use Recovery (Workshop) |
Fleurie Hunter, Tia Mihalj, Kyla Barnes, Rae-Anne Lebrun |
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Implementing standardized suicide prevention education in localized and variable contexts: A focused ethnography research design (Paper) |
Jennifer White, Patti Ranahan |
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| Restorative Justice in Education: Critical Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Approach to Child and Youth Care Practice (Paper) |
Shannon A. Moore, Richard C. Mitchell |
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The Phoenix Approach: Working with Adolescent Sexually Problematic Behaviours in Context (Workshop) |
Cameron Kopeck, Andrew McAllister |
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Activism Piplelines and CYC Practice: Moving to protect our Tomorrow (Discussion/Workshop) |
Elder Ron George, Elders Voices, Cowichan Tribes, Shanne McCaffrey, and CYC Students | |
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The Experience of Emerging Adulthood among Street-Involved Youth (Paper) |
Doug Magnuson, Mikael Jansson, Cecilia Benoit | |
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A Formative Evaluation of a Cinematherapy Activity Manual for the Film “The Maze Runner” (Paper) |
Gerard Bellefeuille, Shayleen Fortier, Cole Smith, Gabrielle St. Pierre, Shannon Rose, Samantha Jungwirth, Nazia Islam, Mariam Yousouf | |
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Solidarity, Love, and Ethics in Practice: Walking together in the "supercomplexities" of CYC (Round Table) |
Shantelle Moreno, Audrey Wolfe, Susan Rooke, Sasha Routley, Angie Grey, Kaz Mackenzie, Jane Buchanan, Laura Vetrone | |
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Personal Journeys - a healing program focused on Childhood Sexual Abuse as it relates to Concurrent Disorders in Women |
Denise Masson Cormier | |
| 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM |
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“What I Wish They Knew: Student Narratives of Challenges, Resiliency, and Hope” (Discussion) |
Matty Hillman |
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Diversity Across a Community: Creating and delivering services to youth of various sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions (Workshop) |
Elisabeth Cooke | |
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Demographics of Youth in Africa Employment and Business Gaps and Service Responses (Workshop) |
Jacqueline McAdam | |
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Supporting Families with Parental Mental Illness and/or Substance Use - A Community Collaboration (Workshop) |
Sonja Sinclair | |
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Working with the Anxious Parent (Workshop) |
Bill Wagg | |
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Continuation from previous session: Activism Piplelines and CYC Practice: Moving to protect our Tomorrow (Discussion/Workshop) |
Elder Ron George, Elders Voices, Cowichan Tribes, Shanne McCaffrey, and CYC Students | |
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Continuity of Care as a Hallmark Principle: Following 57 youth engaged in a Stop Now And Plan (SNAP) Boys - Youth Leadership Services (Paper) |
Abdi Mohamud, Kaitlin Fredericks, Karen Sewell, Tyrese Gregg, Christopher Webster | |
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Conceptualizing Young People as Subjects: A Critical Interpretation of the Relational Process Within Sexual Exploitation (Workshop) |
Shannon Brown, Jaclyn Ng Man Chuen |
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“I am a Child and Youth Care Professional”: Identity, Meaning and Impact (Panel) |
Janet Westcott, Rebecca Lang, Susan Hunt, Jon Johnson |
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| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM |
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The Three R's of Helping - Relationship, Responsibility & Resilience (Workshop) |
Janet White |
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Transdisciplinarity in Post-Secondary Educational Reform: Meanings and Values (Paper) |
Richard C. Mitchell, Shannon A. Moore | |
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Challenging Radical Feminist Discourses around Gender Identity (Paper) |
Audrey Wolfe | |
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Kinship Trails: Contesting Trauma-Informed Practice in Indigenous Child Welfare (Round Table) |
Sandrina de Finney, Angela Scott, Cathy Richardson, Kathleen Harris | |
| A Re-appreciation of Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: Exploring Current International, Programmatic and Practice Perspectives | Jim Anglin, Martha Holden, Anton Smith | |
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Challenging our practice and ethical assumptions: Promoting innovation by finding new ways to look at what we are doing so we can do what we are doing differently. (Workshop) |
Grant Charles, Ben Anderson-Nathe | |
| Cultivating cultural acumen: A way towards reconciliation (Workshop) | Jin-Sun Yoon | |
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Flipping the Switch (UNCRC) and youth and online as life-space (Round Table) |
Tara Rose-Farrell, Shay Erlich | |
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Keeping relational in support children with complex behaviors (Discussion) |
Joan Astren | |
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Professional Boundaries in CYC: Where I end and You begin (Workshop) |
Susana Guardado, Kaz MacKenzie |
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| 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM |
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With(in) the Forest: Reconceptualising Pedagogies of Care (Workshop) |
Sherri-Lynn Yazbeck, Julia Norman, Ildikó Danis, Anne Pickup, Deanna Elliott, Johanna Payjack, Narda Nelson |
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Contributors to successful supported employment for youth with disabilities: An evaluation (Paper) |
Olivia Kaehn | |
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Trajectories of Smooth: An affective visual mapping of youth with autism spectrum spatial experiences whenbnavigating the Nova Scotia educational terrain. (Paper) |
Sarah Reddington | |
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Connecting parents of gender creative children andbtrans youth with information resources |
Beth Clark, Devon Greyson | |
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All my Relations: A Kinship Approach to Indigenous Family Practice (Discussion) |
Sandrina de Finney, CYC 360 students | |
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Collaborative Approaches to Building Communities of Care – Child and Youth Advocacy Centres in Action (Workshop) |
Mattie Walker, Angela Scott | |
| Decolonization Through Inquiry: A Path to the Re-valuing and Adoption of Indigenous Ways of Knowing
(Workshop) |
Ruggero Racca, Denise Baxter, Byron Stevenson | |
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Religion, spirituality and CYC practice: Considering the complexities |
Shemine Gulamhusein, Daniel Scott | |
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Respect, Equity and Consent (Workshop) |
Penny Fenske and Deborah Morris | |
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The Challenge of Sustaining CYC Research and Development Capacity Over Time—the Case of the Unit for Child Care Research, circa ~1990-present |
Alan Pence, Sandra Griffin, Lynette Jackson, Theresa Hunter, Sarah Fleury, Debbie Blakely | |
We look forward to welcoming you here on April 27th!
Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr. Sibylle Artz and Dr. Marie Hoskins
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Conference Coordinator, Caroline Green greenc@uvic.ca