This episode is with Kelly Capewell. She looks at peer relationships in residential care and specifically the impact on treatment outcomes. She discusses some very interesting findings regarding how staff perceives peer relationships.

In this broad

reaching conversation Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi discusses theories and practices in

child and youth care. He touches on relational practice, caring, education of

CYCs, engagement, and self, among other topics. This conversation comes out of

the recently published book With Children

and Youth: Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care.

Dr. Gharabaghi is

co-editor of Journal of Child and Youth Services, has a monthly column in

CYC-Online, regularly contributes to Relational Child and Youth Care Practice,

has written or edited five books, and is an Associate Professor in the school

of Child and Youth Care at Ryerson University in Toronto.

In this conversation, Phil Coady discusses

relationships with young people & their families, boundaries, working in

residential care, and maintaining contact long after people have “emancipated”.

It is a wonderful and enlightening exploration of what relational practice is,

in contemporary residential care.

Phil

Coady works in residential care. He has recently completed a practitioner research study regarding boundaries

in residential care with children and youth. He lives and works in Musselburgh,

Scotland (just outside of Edinburgh).

This podcast is a do-over. In April

of 2014 I had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Mary Stone Hanley. Unfortunately,

the sound quality made it difficult to hear. Mary contacted me several months

ago and asked about re-doing the interview, which I thought was a great idea, this

podcast is a new conversation based upon the same topics as the first one. In

the podcast Dr. Hanley discusses arts as a social justice practice, culturally

relevant arts education, and the value of arts to children and youth.

Dr. Hanley is a performer, poet, educator, playwright and artivist. She is the author

of numerous articles and co-editor of a new book. For more

information about Dr. Hanley please visit Hanley Arts at MaryStoneHanley.com

Author and

illustrator Kevin Pyle talks about his book (co-authored with Scott Cunningham)

Bad For You: Exposing The War On Fun! A very brief introduction explains the

book. “This is the history of stuff that is supposed to be bad for you. To find

out why most of it isn’t, keep reading.” During this interview Kevin discusses

the long history of trying to stop young people from doing things they enjoy. Dangerous

things like reading, playing, and thinking, among others. To learn more about

Kevin Pyle and the book go to BadForYouBook.com/.

This

interview with Heather Sago and Aurrora De Monte explores being an advocate

for, being an advocate against, and being an advocate with. What is the role of

adults in advocating? How does one advocate when to do so puts one’s own career

at risk? What are the consequences of not advocating? How does one advocate?

Heather and Aurrora are the founders of the CYC Advocacy Project and both teach in the Child and Youth Work program

at sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario.

This podcast is posted at the end of a year with a great deal of

discussion about violence: violence against women, violence from police,

violence towards police, torture, and war. A common factor in all these cases

is that men have been responsible for most of this violence. We’ve long been

aware that males are the most frequent perpetuators of violence. We also know

that violence is not inevitable. Today we are discussing how to support young

male children grow into emotionally healthy men.

This podcast is with a return guest, Dr. Siegi Schuler (you can listen

to his last interview, on adolescents who sexual offend, from November 2013). Dr.

Schuler is a Ph.D and registered clinical Social Worker. He has a particular

focus and interest in men’s emotional health and well-being (from adolescence

to adulthood), addressing such areas as childhood trauma, sexual violence,

mental health, chemical dependency and pornography addictions, relationship and

intimacy concerns, father-son/daughter –dynamics, and fathering. You can learn more about Dr Schuler at http://www.drschulercounselling.com/

This

podcast returns listeners to the voices of young people who have direct

experience in the youth social service system. Julian is a young man who went

into Children’s Aid during his adolescence. His time in care coincided with his

coming out process. Julian speaks about the support, and lack thereof, he

received from those around him. He offers suggestions on how to help young

people coming out and makes several recommendation for ways to improve the

system for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ)

children and youth in care.

Julian

is a former trainer with Connect to Youth a program that delivers workshops to

service providers. All the trainers are young people with direct experience in

the youth social service system. Julian was instrumental in developing our

workshops for supporting LGBTQ youth in care, which we continue to deliver at

Children’s Aid Societies.

This is part two

of a special two-part discussion examining the topic of death. In this second

episode Dr. Mary Vachon talks about the death of children. She discusses about

how to work with children who are dying, how to support caregivers whose

children are dying, and suggestions on caring for ourselves as we work in this

very difficult area.

Dr. Vachon is a Registered

Nurse/Ph. D. psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on death and

dying. She has been working in this area since the late 1960s and has published

over 170 scientific articles and book chapters in the areas of bereavement,

occupational stress in health care professionals, dealing with life-threatening

illnesses, and spirituality; among other related topics.

In a special

two-part discussion over the September and October episodes, C2YPodcast will be

examining the topic of death with Dr. Mary Vachon. This first episode will deal

with the death of a caregiver. Dr. Vachon offers suggestions on preparing a

young person for the death of a parent, what responses one might see after the

death, and how to support the child/youth/young adult as they grow up without

that parent. 

Dr. Vachon is a Registered

Nurse/Ph. D. psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on death and

dying. She has been working in this area since the late 1960s and has published

over 170 scientific articles and book chapters in the areas of bereavement, occupational

stress in health care professionals, dealing with life-threatening illnesses,

and spirituality; among other related topics.