Practicum I

• Child and youth care practicum is an opportunity to engage with a wide range of CYC perspectives, models, and theories from diverse worldviews and traditions that inform CYC practice.
• Child and youth care practicum is an opportunity to learn by engaging with individuals, groups, families, and communities and developing an awareness of individual and collective social locations.
• Child and youth care practicum is an opportunity to apply a variety of communication skills and practice strategies required to work respectfully and empathetically within diverse CYC contexts.
• Child and youth care practicum is an opportunity for students to reflect critically on their practice. These reflections are grounded in an understanding and awareness of systems of power and privilege, as they manifest in marginalization, structural inequity and colonialism, and contextualize CYC practice within an intersectional framework that responds to calls for decolonization.
• Child and youth care practicum is an opportunity to demonstrate a professional CYC orientation that integrates CYC theories, perspectives and values to attend to the wellness of young people and families across diverse contexts. This CYC professional orientation is grounded in a critical understanding and awareness of the history of the profession, the relational self, and ethical, cultural, and legal CYC frameworks.

This course's content and learning outcomes are guided by the Child & Youth Care Education Consortium of British Columbia, the North American Competencies for Child & Youth Work Practitioners, and the Child & Youth Care Educational Accreditation Board of Canada.

Students pursuing the Indigenous Pathway (IPATH) are required to complete CYCC 1240: Practicum at an Indigenous organization or at a program that primarily serves Indigenous young people and/or families.