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International Child & Youth Care Week, 2024
The International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-Net) will be celebrating International Child and Youth Care Workers Week during the first full week of May – starting May 5th, 2024.
The theme for this year is Celebrating Relational Child & Youth Care Practice: Around the World.
There is a difference between having a relationship and being in relationship. Relational CYC practice involves ‘being in relationship’ with other and focuses on the characteristics of that relationship. It is, as Gerry Fewster said, “not only a very different perspective; it is a different pathway, across a very different terrain, in search of a very different destination”. And it is this that we celebrate around the world – a CYC approach to helping which focuses on the relationship as the focus of our engagement with youth and others.
So, how will you, in your corner of the globe, celebrate this focus on the relational?
Experiences From Treatment for Anxiety and Depression Among
Youth in Foster Care: A Qualitative Study
Yasmin Moussavi,
Bente Storm Mowatt Haugland, Gro Janne Wergeland, Stine Lehmann
and Silje Mæland
Explosive and Harmful Impulses: A Subset of Child and
Adolescent-to-Parent Violence and Abuse
Nikki Rutter
Trend Effects of Being in Care, from Early to Late Adulthood: A
Comparative Look at Adults Who Were in Residential or Foster
Care As Children and Those Who Did Not Experience Out-Of-Home
Care
Markus N. Sauerwein & Gunther Graßhoff
A Place to Feel at Home? An Exploratory Study of the Perceived
Living Environment in Home- Like Groups, Family-Style Group
Homes, and Traditional Residential Youth Care
Y.G.
Riemersma, A.E. Zijlstra, M.E. Kalverboer, W.J. Post & A.T.
Harder
Comparison of Systems and Outcomes for Safeguarding Children in
Australia and Norway: A Decade of Rapid Change
Bente
Heggem Kojan, Erica Russ, Gaute Skrove and Bob Lonne
Director, Child Care Early Learning Centres
School Liaison Worker
Child and Youth Care Worker / Behaviour Specialist (Independent Contractor)
Unity Conference 2024
DLE - The Purposeful Use of Daily Life Events - Virtual Training
FICE International 35th World Congress
"Ally-ship: From the Heart" The 2024 Canadian National Child and Youth Care Conference
CYC-Online No. 302
April 2024
Editorial Comment: Relational Realms
James Freeman
Quality Care in Residential Care and
Treatment Settings in North America: From Complex Research to
Four Everyday Principles for Practice
Kiaras Gharabaghi
Christmas Extravaganza: Creating
Significance, Meaning and Connections for Young People and their
Families
Natasha Cook and Adam Harnum
10 False Lessons Childhood Emotional
Neglect Teaches You
Jonice Webb
Creating partnerships and finding
solutions for girls leaving care
Petra Roberts and Mutmainah Aderinto
What a Day for a Daydream
Hans
Skott-Myhre
Postcard from Leon Fulcher
RELATIONAL CHILD AND YOUTH CARE PRACTICE, Vol 36, No.3
The Graduate Issue
CONTENTS
Editorial – Continuing Good Traditions | Aurrora De Monte and Graham McPheat
Hearing Silenced Voices: Haunted Histories, Art Making and Witnessing with IBPOC Youth | Anna Chadwick
The Effects of Applied Behavioural Analysis Therapy | Frincess Arbour
A Way of Being: Exploring Perceptions of Relational Practice Across Contexts | Jillian Higgins
Lost Innocence: Adultification of Black Children Unveiling Historical Roots and Contemporary Realities | Jahtara Hutchinson-Bobb
Supporting Wellness in Indigenous Youths in Residential Care Facilities | Jasmine Singer
The Blurry Lines of Praxis: Child and Youth Care faculty perspectives on supporting student mental health in higher education | Sheva Leon
Adjusting to New Environments: Exploring the Challenges of South Asian Immigrant Students in Greater Toronto | Kruti Patel
Resetting The Foundation Stones of Relational Practice
Relational Practice exists as a concept in many caring professions including Child & Youth Care / Social Care, Social Work, Education, Medicine / Nursing, Psychology/Psychotherapy and as an ‘approach’ Relational Practice is universally appreciated as one that is necessary to adopt, if we are to be of any assistance to the people we work with and serve. Yet, no single and universally accepted definition exists of what Relational Practice is, instead there are different (but related) interpretations.
It was noted at the UNITY23 conference by one of the speakers that, Relational Practice is a bit like love or humour … we mightn’t be able to clearly define it, but we know it when we see it or feel it.
Speakers from around the globe will present across a spectrum of topics that can be viewed as the foundation stones of Relational Practice. Some of these topics might be considered ‘values’; some ‘traits of the effective practitioner’; some could be considered ‘wisdoms’ that need to be known, as well as ‘approaches, techniques, and ways of thinking and doing’.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Presenters are now being sought to deliver sessions at the UNITY2024 conference that can add to the evolving Relational Practice Body of Knowledge.
Presenters are invited to submit proposals and to present on topics that are relevant to the theme of the conference. This might include Relational Practice in a global sense or on some of the key aspects of Relational Practice such as Resilience, Connection & Engagement, Working in the Life-Space, Focusing on Needs, Strength-Based Practice, and Love – to name but a few.
Sessions should describe the relevance and utility of the topic/s being discussed and allow attendees to see how these all come together to allow us all to better understand Relational Practice.
Submit your proposal here.
Submission deadline – 3 May 2024.
Presenters will receive a 50% discount on the cost of the full 2-day registration fee.
