A Practical Guide to Child and Youth Care

A Practical Guide to Child and Youth Care is designed to support Child and Youth Care students and practitioners and other related human services professionals. The aim of this guidebook is to serve as a reference guide and provide real life exeriences from the field.

This book is the culmination of the authors’ 50+ years of experience as front line workers in various milieus, with children, youth, their families, and community partners.

This textbook reflects an up-to-date rendition of the CYFSA and the YCJA, which are pivotal to our work in the field and provides us with guidelines within which we practice.