The Editors of CYC-Online
Managing Editor

Martin Stabrey
Martin is Chief Operations Officer of CYC-Net and Managing Editor of CYC-Online. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa and is married to Helen and together they have two daughters, Kirsten and Tamara. He is a product of the South African child care system, having spent most of his childhood in care at St. John's Hostel in Cape Town. He studied Economics and Information Systems at the University of South Africa.
Associate Editors

Dr Mark Smith
Dr Mark Smith has worked in child and youth care since 1981 when he began
as a residential social worker at what was then called a List D (approved)
school outside Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent the next 19 years in practice
and management positions in different residential settings finishing his
practice career as Principal for secure accommodation services in Edinburgh,
in charge of two secure and three attached open units.
In 2000 he
was appointed to a position at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow to
develop and teach a new Masters programme in residential child care. He did
this successfully for five years before moving to the University of
Edinburgh as a lecturer and then senior lecturer in social work.
Mark has written extensively on residential child care, including two books,
Rethinking Residential Child Care (2009) and Residential Child Care in
Practice (with Fulcher and Doran) (2013), both books published by Policy
Press. His Doctorate addresses concepts of care and upbringing.
Mark
and his family maintain a connection with child care practice as registered
foster carers.

Janice Daley
Janice Daley has worked in Child and Youth Care with Waypoints in St. John’s Canada since 2000. She held a variety of positions in residential programs before joining the Waypoints Family Support Program where she has been Senior Counsellor for the past eight years. She is also involved on a volunteer basis in various community initiatives, including sitting on the Boards of ASISTNL (suicide intervention) and a newly opened non-profit childcare centre that has an emphasis on the Arts in Early Childhood Education.
In her youth, Janice pursued Journalism as a career, and although she settled in Education and Child and Youth Care, has maintained an obsession with grammar, punctuation and spelling that haunts her (and her colleagues) to this day.

James Freeman
James Freeman, MA, CYC-P lives in Southern California with his wife and three children.
He has over 25 years of experience in relational child and youth care across various settings, including out-of-school programs, family camping, sports, and child welfare. He holds a masters degree in organizational leadership and is the training director for Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families.
In addition to serving on the board of CYC-Net, James serves on the boards of the Association of Children's Residential Centers and theChild and Youth Care Certification Board.James regularly facilitates training on child and youth care topics.

Dr Shemine Gulamhusein
Dr. Shemine Gulamhusein is an Assistant Professor of Child and
Youth Care at MacEwan University. She is passionate about knitting
together child and youth care, therapeutic recreation, and
counselling practice with a particular interest in children, youth
and families that have migrated to Canada from the majority world.
She is active in local and international pursuits including being a
board member of the Child and Youth Care Education Accreditation
Board, a board member with REACH Edmonton, and collaboratively
working on a Global Perspectives in Social Care / Child and Youth Care practice with
colleagues across Canada and Ireland.
Outside of academia,
Shemine supports people through her private practice by offering
individual Child and Youth Care counselling and group workshops. Her work is grounded
in movement, the power of bodies, and the benefits of being
outdoors. As an emerging scholar, Shemine is excited to continue her
journey in the intersection of child and youth care and therapeutic
recreation.
Founding Editors

Brian Gannon
Brian worked in Child and Youth Care from 1959 as a child care worker, principal, trainer, supervisor, lecturer and writer.
He started his career in child care while in his final undergraduate year. Four years later he and a colleague started a new program (St Nicolas Home) in Johannesburg for a sector of the South African population not previously provided for. In 1967 he was invited to become principal of St Johns, a 64-bed program in Cape Town where he remained for fifteen years.
In the late 1960s, in the Western Cape, he founded South Africa's first child care workers' association, and was instrumental in the establishment of similar associations in Natal, the Transvaal and the Eastern Cape. In 1975 these provincial associations amalgamated into the National Association of Child Care Workers.
In 1982 Brian became the NACCW's first National Director. The NACCW has become the major training, literature and advocacy organisation in the field in South Africa.
Brian produced the NACCW's monthly journal Child & Youth Care from 1983 until 1999, when he founded CYC-Net with Thom Garfat.
Brian passed away on 28 September 2017.

Thom Garfat
Thom a Director of Transformative Relational Consultation and Training (TRCT) and has worked with young people, families and those who work with them for 50 years.
He is the co-founder of the International Child & Youth Care Network (CYC-Net) and the journal Relational Child & Youth Care Practice. His training, The Purposeful Use of Daily Life Events is used worldwide. He has authored or co-authored of eight books and numerous professional articles. His primary focus is on ‘making it work’; finding practical everyday ways to enhance the process of healing and development.
Thom was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2023.
He lives in Quebec, with Sylviane.