What About Care in Child and Youth Care?
In this episode I sit down and talk with Graduate students Wolfgang Vachon and Shannon Cherry, in a conversation that surrounds the work of Wolfgang's PhD research inquiry. The Inquiry steps into the topic of child and youth care practitioners who come from care (have lived in foster care, group homes, and child welfare related systems) but now work within the child and youth care field. In this conversation, Wolfgang, Shannon and I, discuss the Refiled podcast, an audio drama that delves further into these themes, and we ask ourselves questions such as "what does it mean to show and receive care within the care system".
This interview features guests Shannon Cherry and Wolfgang Vachon.
Shannon is a school based CYCP (from care) who has been working in Child and Youth Care for nearly two decades. She has recently completed her masters at Ryerson University, where her primary focus has been youth leadership in child welfare.
Wolfgang has been working with children and youth for close to three decades including those who are street involved, LGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, minoritized, living in state detention, and other forms of state care. A significant part of his practice uses communtiy-arts. Wolfgang teaches child and youth care at Humber College and is currently completing his PhD in CYC at the University of Victoria.
Link to Wolfgang and Shannon's work: https://tuningintocyc.com
www.refiled.ca
Sources: https://www.iicrd.org/sites/default/files/resources/Asset-based_Development_for_child_and_youthcare_0.pdf
Shannon is a school based CYCP (from care) who has been working in Child and Youth Care for nearly two decades. She has recently completed her masters at Ryerson University, where her primary focus has been youth leadership in child welfare.
Wolfgang has been working with children and youth for close to three decades including those who are street involved, LGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, minoritized, living in state detention, and other forms of state care. A significant part of his practice uses communtiy-arts. Wolfgang teaches child and youth care at Humber College and is currently completing his PhD in CYC at the University of Victoria.
Link to Wolfgang and Shannon's work: https://tuningintocyc.com
www.refiled.ca
Sources: https://www.iicrd.org/sites/default/files/resources/Asset-based_Development_for_child_and_youthcare_0.pdf
