Since it's founding in 1997, the CYC-Net discussion group has been asked thousands of questions. These questions often generate many replies from people in all spheres of the Child and Youth Care profession and contain personal experiences, viewpoints, as well as recommended resources.
Below are some of the threads of discussions on varying Child and Youth Care related topics.
Questions and Responses have been reproduced verbatim.
Listen to thisA secure or financially enriching career? See also Future of Child and Youth Care, Child and Youth Care as a profession 1, Child and Youth Care as a profession 2 and Child and Youth Care work: Is it only passion required?
Accepting gifts 1, Accepting gifts 2
Activities and resources for younger children?
Activities to improve social skills with 10-12 year olds?
Advice about out-of-school employment
Advice for those new to the field?
Advice on professional terminology
Advocacy in the Child and Youth Care field?
Advocating for youth and as a professional?
Age of Child and Youth Care practitioner
Age that children remain in care?
Another article where Child and Youth Care is not named
Applied behavioural analysis within CYC
Attachment disorder 1 and Attachment disorder 2
Autism and dealing with special needs?
Autism: Two practicum questions
AWOL behaviour See also Runaway teens and Youth who run away and are disengaged in programming?
Basic service continuum components?
Bedwetting See also Daytime wetting?
Benefits of independent living programmes
Bipolar disorder See also Depression in teenagers
Books, articles on Henry Maier See also Henry Maier video
Boundaries 1 See also Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, Boundaries with children and youth?, No-touch policy, Touch in CYC,Touch, Saying "I love you" and Safe touch?
Boundaries in the school system?
Broken or unsupportive office teams?
Burn-out 1 See also Enduring in the Field, Stress and burnout in the field, Burn-out 2, High stress job? and Self-care
Burnout in relation to age of staff?
Case studies See also Reading clients' files?
Challenges caregivers experience to support their children with education?
Characteristics of a Child and Youth Care approach
Characteristics/knowledge people bring into Child and Youth Care work?
Child care managers and administrators also front line workers?
CYC as a profession 1 See also Child and Youth Care as a profession 2, A secure or financially enriching career? and Future of Child and Youth Care
CYC practice the same as Youth Work?
CYC work: Is it only passion required? See also Child and Youth Care as a profession1, Child and Youth Care as a profession 2, A secure or financially enriching career?
CYC workers fostering youth? See also Policies around maintaining relationships post-care
CYC worker: degree or advanced diploma?
Collaboration of organizations working with families?
Client who self harms? See also Cutting?, Self harm?, Self-mutilation, self-harm and Self harming
Communicating on an international level?
Conservative and inflexible morality
Consistency, Consistency in group home care? and Consistency 2
Cultural competency in Child and Youth Care practice
Cutting? See also Client who self harms?, Self-mutilation, self-harm,Self harm? and Self harming
Dating co-workers 1 and Dating co-workers 2
Daytime wetting? See also Bedwetting and Wetting the bed
De-escalation techniques for children with ADHD
Depression in teenagers See also Bipolar disorder
Developing effective residential treatment for youth?
Development of professional practitioners?
Difference between Counter transference and Projective identifications?
Difficult to manage youngster See also Help dealing with difficult behaviour
Disadvantages to trauma-informed care See also Trauma-informed care
Discipline policy? See also Lack of structure and rules and Policies and procedures
Does the system cause even more damage?
Drugging kids? See also Ritalin questions and Treating ADD-ADHD kids
Drug use with clients See also Smoking weed
Drugs: Harm reduction versus abstinence programs?
Dual qualified residential workers?
Early Child and Youth Care research
Eating disorders and disordered eating – group ideas?
Eating habits and health in residential care
Effectiveness of the Life Space Interview
Effectiveness of youth incarceration?
Enduring in the Field See also Burn-out 1, Burn-out 2, Stress and burnout in the field, High stress job? Rewards in this work and Self-care
Engaging community in social change movements
Establishing clear boundaries with children?
Ethics See also Ethics testing?
Ex-client dating staff member?
Excluding children/expulsion/suspension?
Face-down restraints See also Restraint 1, Restraint 2, Restraint 3, Safe holds in residential schools? and Use of restraint
Family break up affecting career choice?
Favoritism See also Unliked clients, Unliked clients 2 and Not liking a youth
Feedback from clients? and Feeling like a failure?
Focus on the future? and Future of Child and Youth Care
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome interventions/programs?
Food See also Hoarding food and Snacks
Future of Child and Youth Care See also Child and Youth Care as a profession1, Child and Youth Care as a profession 2, A secure or financially enriching career? and Child and Youth Care work: Is it only passion required?
Gay clients See also Same sex relationships?, Gender confusion? and Youth that identify as LGBTQ?
Graduation ceremony for at-risk teens?
Group work in correctional facilities?
Hair pulling See also Pulling eyelashes
Help dealing with difficult behaviour See also Difficult to manage youngster
Helpful or appropriate generational or role relationships?
Henry Maier video See also Books, articles on Henry Maier
High stress job? See also Stress and burnout in the field, Enduring in the Field, Burn-out 1, Burn-out 2, Burnout in relation to age of staff? and Rewards in this work
Hoarding food See also Snacks and Food
How CYC-Net impacts you and your work
Identity-first or person-first language?
If all else fails, cut down the tree!
Impact of violence on children's development?
Importance of 'self' and Child and Youth Care practice?
Incentives See also Points and levels
Inclusion and anti-oppressive practice in CYC
Incorporating diversity and indigenous culture in Child and Youth Care practice
Institutional cultural change?
Internet safety See also The use of social networks?
Investing in mental health training
Jobs in a school setting as a CYC?
Knowing a client/family personally?
Knowledge and experience of the Child and Youth Care field?
Lack of structure and rules See also Discipline policy? and Policies and procedures
Lay charges See also Laying charges against residents
LGBTQ, special needs and family values
Leaders/future leaders in our field?
Leaving care See also Transition to adulthood? and Transitioning out of care?
Less enthusiastic colleagues See also Negative co-workers? and Problems with co-workers?
Line manager See also Need for supervision?, New Supervisor, Supervising a superstar, Supervision: Most crucial qualities?
List of things young people in care can't do
Loss and grief in adolescence
Lost art of creative work with group?
Love and Love 2 See also Boundaries I, Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, No-touch policy, Touch in CYC, Touch, Saying "I love you", and Safe touch?
Maintaining a professional body? See also Recognition and National Associations
Male staff working with traumatized females?
Meal times See also Suppertime
Movies about youth issues See also Movies with a message and Movie ratings and group care
National Associations See also Maintaining a professional body?, and Recognition
Need for supervision? See also Line manager, Supervising a superstar and Supervision: Most crucial qualities?
Negative co-workers? See also Problems with co-workers? and Less enthusiastic colleagues
Neo-colonial/post colonial critiques of residential child care
New supervisor See also Line manager, Need for supervision?, Supervising a superstar and Supervision: Most crucial qualities?
No-touch policy See also Boundaries I, Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, Touch, Touch in CYC, Love, Love 2, and Safe touch?
Non-verbal children with autism?
Not liking a youth See also Unliked clients, Unliked clients 2 and Favoritism
Notes on caring under the society of control
Older reflections on early practice
Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
Outcomes of therapeutic residential work?
Overnight staff 1 and Overnight staff 2
Overparenting/helicopter parenting & Child and Youth Care work
Parental engagement programmes linked to improving attainment
Partnerships with law enforcement
Personal development and self-care See also Self-care, Burn-out 1, Enduring in the Field, Stress and burnout in the field, Burn-out and High stress job?
Photography with youth See also Videos made by youth
Points and levels 2 See also Incentives
Policies and procedures See also Discipline policy?and Lack of structure and rules
Policies around maintaining relationships post-care See also Child and Youth Care Workers Fostering Youth?
Positive expectations in the workplace
Problems with co-workers? See also Negative co-workers? and Less enthusiastic colleagues
Profoundly stupid ideas 1 and Profoundly stupid ideas 2
Promoting Child and Youth Care practitioners as professionals?
Pulling eyelashes See also Hair pulling
Quality of parenting/care in early childhood
Questions from children about skin color?
Reading clients' files? See also Case studies
Recognition see also Maintaining a professional body? and National Associations
Reconnecting youth with family?
Relationship and being a practicum student?
Relationship between management and frontline careworkers
Relationships with abusive youth? See also Violence against staff? and Worksheets on aggression/anger?
Residential child care – is it really necessary?
Residential Child and Youth Care literature?
Responses to 'Research study: Existence of Vicarious Trauma in CYC'
Restraint 1, Restraint 2, Restraint 3, andRestraints See also Face-down Restraints, Safe holds in residential schools? and Use of restraint
Ritalin questions See also Drugging kids?
Runaway teens See also AWOL behaviour, Absence in care, Teen runaways? and Youth who run away and are disengaged in programming?
Safe holds in residential schools? See also Restraint 1, Restraint 2, Restraint 3, Face-down Restraints and Use of restraint
Safe touch? See also Touch, Love, Love 2, Boundaries I, Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, No-touch policy, Touch in CYC, No-touch policy and Saying "I love you"
Same sex relationships? See also Gay clients and Gender confusion?
Saying "I love you" See also Love and Love 2, Boundaries I, Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, No-touch policy, Touch in Child and Youth Care and Touch
Self-care See also Burn-out 1, Enduring in the Field, Stress and burnout in the field, Burn-out, Burnout in relation to age of staff? and High stress job?
Self-mutilation, self-harm See also Self harm?, Cutting?, Client who self harms? and Self harming
Separating personal emotions from professional?
Should Child and Youth Care workers study social psychology?
Skill set needed for residential social worker
Smoking See also Youth and smoking
Smoking weed See also Drug use with clients
Snacks See also Hoarding food and Food
Social environment and behaviour?
Socio-emotional development activities in adolescence? See also Co-operative/therapeutic games
Special needs and restraints?/Opinions on restraints? See also Restraint 1, Restraint 2 , Restraint 3, Face-down Restraints, Safe holds in residential schools? and Use of restraint
Spiritual development in childhood and adolescence,Spirituality as a development domain and Spirituality in managed care
Staff gender balance in boys (14-17) residential schools
Starting a program from scratch?
Stats on success of treatment centres/group homes
Street Kids See also Work on the streets?
Stress and burnout in the field See also Enduring in the Field, Burn-out 1, Burn-out 2, High stress job?, Burnout in relation to age of staff?, Rewards in this work and Self-care
Supervising a superstar and Supervision: Most crucial qualities? See also Line manager, Need for supervision? and New Supervisor,
Suppertime See also Food and Meal times
Supporting child and youth rights?
Support for Child and Youth Care practitioners?
Taking personal items away from clients
Talking about sexuality with youth?
Technological barriers in the therapeutic relationship?
Teen runaways? See also Absence in care, AWOL behaviour, Runaway teens and Youth who run away and are disengaged in programming?
The culture of making allegations?
Therapeutic games, activities See also Socio-emotional development activities in adolescence?
Titles currently being used in Therapeutic Residential Care
Touch See also Love and Love 2, Boundaries I, Boundaries 2, Boundaries 3, No-touch policy, Touch in CYC, No-touch policy and Saying "I love you"
Training makes for cost effectiveness?
Transfer of basic life skills – are CYCs adequately prepared?
Transition to adulthood? See also Leaving care, Transitioning out of care? and Terminations and transitions
Transitioning youth in residential care
Transitions into residential placements?
Trauma-informed care See also Disadvantages to trauma-informed care
Trauma informed programs and staff assault? See also Aggressive behavior and Violence against staff?
Treating ADD-ADHD kids See also Drugging kids? and Ritalin questions
Unco-operative parents? See also Family involvement? and Conservative and inflexible morality
Unionisation in the Child and Youth Care profession?
Unliked clients See also Unliked clients 2, Not liking a youth and Favoritism
Upcoming placement in women's shelter
Use of social networks? See also Internet safety
Use of the word non-compliant?
Using 'self' in interaction with children?
Videos made by youth See also Photography with youth
Violence against staff? See also Relationships with abusive youth?,Trauma informed programs and staff assault? and Worksheets on aggression/anger?
Vulnerable youth in the education system
Welcoming package for children under 12?
Wetting the bed, See also Bedwetting and Daytime wetting?
What is professional love and personal love?
What should and what shouldn't be allowed?
What makes a great Child and Youth Care worker?
What unites Child and Youth Care workers?
Work on the streets? See also Street Kids
Working with "different" thinkers?
Worksheets on aggression/anger? See also Relationships with abusive youth? and Violence against staff?
Youth not taking consequences seriously?
Youth that identify as LGBTQ? See also Gay clients, Same sex relationships? and Gender confusion?
Youth who run away and are disengaged in programming? See also Absence in care, AWOL behaviour, Runaway teens and Teen runaways?
