News & events

The School of Child and Youth Care (SCYC) invites applications from talented scholars for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to commence on January 1, 2026. Application deadline: April 14, 2025

February 13th 2025 4:00pm - 6:30pm Human and Social Development Building Outside the CYC Office on the Basement floor

Please join us for the blessing of the Spiritual Garden mural created by Dorothy Stirling and Carmin Bear, Indigenous youth in care Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Time: 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Surrounded by Cedar Child & Family Services (915 Fort Street, Victoria, B.C., V8V 3K3) Food will be served

Check out these two NEW newsletters about the work our amazing youth are doing!

Cider at CYC

Reminder of Graduate Open House on October 25.

Thursday, October 24th Undergraduate Open House

Graduate Open House online October 24th 4-5pm

CYC Undergraduate Open House Friday, 25th October 4-5pm Hybrid event

INVINCIBLE is proud to announce the launch of an Indigenous youth in care storytelling project in a special issue of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies.

Child and Youth Care staff member, Sierra Jasper has been awarded this year’s Island Savings HSD Staff Professional Development Award.

INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES? Join us for the School of Child and Youth Care open house on December 6th, 2023 at 4pm to learn more about our undergraduate program. Event offered in person and via Zoom.

Intelligent, curious and a passionate advocate for transforming our social care systems, Lilia Zaharieva left a deep impression on the people she met.

It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of one of our former CYC students, Lilia Zaharieva. Lilia died on June 17, 2022 at the age of 35. Lilia was an extraordinary woman who took on many challenges on multiple fronts and she was an inspiration for all who knew her. She lived with cystic fibrosis (CF) and from a young age Lilia was told she would not live much past the age of 30, the average life expectancy for persons with CF before the advent of the new miracle gene-altering drugs.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of HSD News As educators, learners and staff members across seven academic units and two support centres, we have much news to share. That’s why we created HSD NEWS, an online and smallrun printed newsletter. This is the first of three issues for 2022 – one for the start of each term.

It was long ago and not so long ago, that the children from this land were stolen from their homes. An agreement between State and Church, to appropriate the land and to harm Indigenous people by taking the children from the land, families and identity.

As a School and CYC community, our hearts go out to our Indigenous faculty, sessional instructors, staff and students as we acknowledge the grief and anger that they must carry and the profound impact that this has on them.

We invite you to the launch and blessing of the amazing Fearless Sisters Rising mural, displayed at the Mearns Centre for Learning- McPherson Library at the University of Victoria.

Lydia Jim, an amazing Child and Youth Care student is contributing to keeping families safe. Lydia recently introduced the “Indigenous Bridging Program” to Tsartlip First Nation as part of Victoria Foundation funded Bridges for Women program. Great work Lydia!

Recognizing a rising leader with big dreams

We invite applications from experienced academic leaders for Director of the School of Child and Youth Care, with tenure or eligibility for tenure. We seek candidates with a demonstrated commitment to decolonizing, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive leadership and pedagogies in research and education, whose practice aims at making substantial contributions in advancing social justice and an understanding of diasporic communities, critical disability studies, critical race theory and studies, gender and sexuality, critical queer studies, and Indigenous ways of knowing

Congratulations SCYC 2020 Grads!

SCYC Fall Graduate and Undergraduate Courses

CYC staff and faculty are working remotely and are available via email

A message from our director.

Congratulations to Soolin Yang and Bronwyn Lawrence on their Jammie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award project. Their insightful poster did not go unnoticed by Vice-President Academic and Provost Valerie Kuehne, and UVic Chancellor Shelagh Rogers.

Our Student Advisor remains connected! Current Students: Students are encouraged to e-mail questions about academic planning to cycadvising@uvic.ca for a response. If you wish an academic advising appointment, they will be offered by phone or Skype for the remainder of the Spring 2020 term. Please email cycadvising@uvic.ca to arrange an appointment. Incoming Students (September, 2020): Please e-mail cycadvising@uvic.ca after May 1, 2020 for any questions you might have about your acceptance or to set up an advising appointment by phone or Skype while we complete the Admission process. Potential students: Applications to CYC for September, 2020 have now closed. If you are enquiring about applying for September, 2021 or wish general information about the program please e-mail cycadvising@uvic.ca however it may take several weeks for a response.

Free speaking engagement: Mar. 6, 2020, from 2 to 3:30 pm, UVic Ideafest 2020, Cornett Building - Room B112. This interactive workshop describes the global situation of forced migration on children and youth with insights from researchers involved with UVic’s Youth Migration Project. Gain insights on how 40 young migrant participants respond to exile and life in transit, which calls upon a depth of strength and willingness to adapt and change. Participants can explore research perspectives through Q & As and through learning more about their storyboarding method. No RSVPs; seating is first come, first seated.

The National Child and Youth Care conference is in St. John’s Newfoundland between June 24th and 26th. Educators day is on June 23rd. For information on registration, see the conference website: https://cycanl.ca/2020-national-conference-info/

The School of Child and Youth Care invites applications for a full-time Associate Professor position (with tenure or tenure-track, according to experience) to join our vibrant and diverse academic community. The preferred start date for this position is July 1 2020. A later start date may be negotiated. The research field of this position is open. We are looking for candidates with pertinent research interest and teaching experience in the fields of child, youth, family, and community, well-being and development. Areas of interest include questions related to migration, diasporic communities, critical disability studies, critical race theory and studies, sexuality, LGBTQ2 children, youth and families, youth and family counselling, early years development and developmental psychology. Successful applicants will be required to participate actively in the academic governance of the unit, serve as mentors to students and early-in-career academics, and promote diversity and equity as part of a collegial environment at the SCYC.

As a community of scholars, educators and learners SCYC faculty are committed to working towards a more just, more inclusionary, and less racist society.