Prepare to support children, youth, families, and communities. This program provides opportunities to explore unique and specialized areas including diversity, advocacy, mental health, policy, trauma-informed and reflective practice within the Child and Youth Care field. Through hands on experiences such as research projects and practicums, you will learn to integrate the Child and Youth Care Competencies into your professional practice.

Graduates of the Child and Youth Care program will work with children, youth, and families in a variety of settings. Some of these include residential settings such as group homes, shelters, or treatment centres, community programs such as drop-in centres, summer camps, or parent centres, within a family’s home as a family support worker, in the community as a youth worker, within schools as a specialized support worker, or within the youth justice system.

For more information on Child and Youth Care, check out the Child and Youth Care Association of Alberta: CYCAA - Child & Youth Care Association of Alberta

Other Child and Youth Care Resources: RCYCP - Relational Child and Youth Care Practice Journal

Please note that attending courses in the Child and Youth Care Diploma program may activate you or bring up a lot of emotions and personal experiences. We want you to know that there is support both on and off campus that can support Indigenous students with specific activations around colonial history, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), residential schools, community suicides, and more.