editorial
Celebrating our Field
In one month's time we will find ourslves in the first week of May — the time each year when many of us have been celebrating International Child & Youth Care Workers' Week.
Have a look at what we wrote about this in some previous editorials:
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0501-editorial.html
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0504-editorial.html
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cyconline-may2008-editorial.html
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cyconline-apr2009-editorial.html
A few years back, during the month running up to the date, we ran a regular feature on the web site in which people all round the world wrote to tell us what they were planning to do for Child & Youth Care Workers' Week — some teams in programs or schools were planning dinners, parties, get-togethers; some associations were holding special meetings and dinners at which they chose guests to honour, a child & youth care worker of the year, etc.; some colleges and universities even planned special mini-conferences or seminars ... and what good ideas they all had.
What are we going to do this year? It would be a pity if we let this tradition die out, and if we failed to consider our profession worth celebrating. Someone may like to kick a discusion into play in the discusion group; someone may like to prepare an article, a story or a feature for next month's CYC-Online which will be published in that week; someone in your agency or school may like to enthuse some colleagues to find a venue and dig out some old recipes and plan an evening or an afternoon “do” when fellow team-members can gather to celebrate this work which we have made our life.
We look forward to hearing...
Brian and Thom