Child & Youth Care Practicum Resources

Youth Care practicum (internship, fieldwork, field placement) is central to all CYC credentials across Canada. How has it come to be the way it is today? What purposes does it serve? Who gets to decide? The newly formed Child & Youth Care Educational Accreditation Board of Canada (CYCEAB) Practicum Committee led a invites you to participate in a lively discussion about all things CYC practicum. At that session "Child & Youth Care Practicum: Past, Present & Future", the following resources were ‘launched’ and presented by Charlotte Serpa and Carys Cragg (and members of the CYCEAB Practicum Committee) at Education Day hosted at the National Child and Youth Care Conference, October 5-7, 2022. The Child & Youth Care Practicum Resources were compiled by Carys Cragg for the CYC Educational Accreditation Board of Canada. (CYCEAB).Practicum Committee and are also posted on their website along with other CYC resources.
The following list is a collection of Child & Youth Care (CYC) practicum resources for educators, supervisors, students, and other people intersecting with CYC practicum. It is offered in the spirit of highlighting CYC practicum knowledge, to support those who design, deliver, and experience it. Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria: the list includes available resources (mainly literature) concerning both Child and Youth Care (youth work, psychoeducation, etc.) and practicum (field work, field placement, internship, etc.). It excludes all other information, including, for example, other human service professional education practicum literature, and resources if CYC and practicum is not one of the primary topics of the resource.