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Keeping connected and up to date is an important part of remaining current in the field. Please see below for a variety of relevant information about the field of Child and Youth Care. If you have something you would like to share with the CYC community, please contact us at office@oacyc.org!
In celebration of the 2022 CYC Week, OACYC had an online event on May 2, 2022 dedicated to students graduating from Child & Youth Care related programs. Check out this recording of our president Coura Niang’s speech from the event!
English caption and ASL are included in the video.
We have updated our Scope of Practice on November 20, 2021. Please check out on our About the OACYC page!
The scope of practice, was put forward at the AGM, as a motion to the membership. The membership voted and adopted this scope of practice as the scope of practice for the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care. This Scope of practice was first developed years back by past presidents, community members, stakeholders, and CYC-thinkers. In the past year, the Board of Directors choose to update it, by adding components of cultural safety, and reflections of the diverse ways in which we carry out Child and Youth Care, as well as the different settings.
Letter To The Honourable Minister Smith, on behalf of the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care Board of Directors.
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Message from the Board of Directors:
In response to community dialogue on the OCSWSSW Information sessions being facilitated by Ryerson’s Child and Youth Care Program
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Use your learnings to better your practices and policies. Consider hosting an online speaker session and ask a leading Black speaker or educator to talk to your employees. It’s a great way to come together, share ideas, and grow. There’s also some amazing online talks that you can sign up for as a company:
The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care is saddened to hear of the loss of a fellow Child and Youth Care Practitioner due to COVID-19. The Toronto Catholic District School Board employee supported the students, families and school community of St. Francis De Sales Public School. Our sincere condolences go out to the family, friends and school community impacted by this tragic loss.
Child and Youth Care Practitioners (Child and Youth Workers) work directly supporting children and youth in many Boards of Education across Ontario. Child and Youth Care Practitioners dedicate their time and careers to supporting children, youth and families and we are deeply saddened, and reflective after hearing of this loss to our community. We recognize that a loss like this will be felt across our province by all Child and Youth Care Practitioners and that this news will also increase the concerns of contracting COVID-19, especially for those working directly with children, youth, and families. We continue to encourage practitioners to take Public Health advised precautions. We know we will join together in our grieving and encourage that we all participate in self and community care, especially during these challenging times.
To support Practitioners in their personal and professional journey through the pandemic, the Association has compiled a list of resources, online tools, professional development opportunities and websites that provide digital resources and learning opportunities related to COVID-19 and virtual supports.
Please visit our website here to access the list of resources.
Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care
Board of Directors
To access the clickable links in our list, please download the PDF here: COVID-19 OACYC Resources List
We want to share a tool you can use to talk to young children about COVID-19. It is written by Theresa Fraser who was an active OACYC Board member until her move to Nova Scotia.
Thank you for sharing this with us all Theresa!
