Child and Youth Care Diploma

Prepare to support children, youth, families, and communities. This program provides opportunities to explore unique and specialized areas including diversity, advocacy, mental health, policy, trauma-informed, and reflective practice within the Child and Youth Care field. Through hands-on experiences such as research projects and practicums, you will learn to integrate the Child and Youth Care Competencies into your professional practice.

Graduates of the Child and Youth Care program will work with children, youth, and families in a variety of settings. Some of these include residential settings such as group homes, shelters, or treatment centers, community programs such as drop-in centers, summer camps, or parent centers, within a family’s home as a family support worker, in the community as a youth worker, within schools as a specialized support worker, or the youth justice system.