Child and Youth Care

Child and youth care is an expanding field. It crosses a range of work settings and areas of practice including residential/group home programs, regular and alternative school programs, daycare and early childhood programs, child life/hospital-based programs, youth justice/probation/young offender programs, special needs foster care, parent/counsellor resources, child and youth mental health, child protection services, community services, and early intervention and child development centres.Practitioners, supervisors, managers, and trainers in these programs bring a diverse set of backgrounds and credentials to their positions. Increasingly, an undergraduate degree is required by employers as a qualification for the best career opportunities in the child and youth care field. With a background in the field and goals of going into supervision or management, this next level of education will be a good investment on your part.

Field of study: Child Development, Youth Services/Administration