Where Care Learned to Speak

Dr. James Anglin began his career as a child and youth care worker in a mental health centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, after which he developed a 6-bed group home for adolescents in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, Dr. Anglin shares how he came to develop a group home, his pursuit of graduate studies, and his journey to joining the School of Child and Youth Care in 1979. He tells a compelling story of why CYC matters, what it has to offer, and reminds listeners of keeping the child, youth, and their families centred.

Dr. Anglin's extensive practice and scholarship cross multiple borders, not only physically, but through his service as an advisor to the South African Inter-Ministerial Committee on Young People at Risk, as the current president of FICE-Canada, Chair of FICE Americas, Asia, and Australia Region, and as a member of the FICE-International Coordinating Committee. He was the University of Victoria's Associate Vice-President Academic and Director of International Affairs, and is currently a Research Affiliate with the Bronfenbrenner Centre for Translational Research at Cornell University, advising on the development and implementation of the Cornell CARE Program Model that is now being delivered in 7 countries.

In this opening episode, Shemine introduces Where Care Learned to Speak and the questions that gave rise to the podcast: How did Child and Youth Care come to be? How has the field been shaped through relationships, stories, tensions, and practice? And, what becomes possible when we pause long enough to listen to the people who carry its histories?

Grounded in a listening-in-relation praxis, this episode situates the podcast as an emergent and relational space for conversation rather than a search for definitive answers. Shemine reflects on her own location within Child and Youth Care as a second-generation immigratnt, Muslim scholar-practitioner, and member of the Child and Youth Care community, while also naming the urgency of preserving the stories early scholars and practitioners whose experiences have often remained outside formal archives. This episode offers an invitation into the unfolding of the podcast and into listening beyond answers, toward stories.