Ryerson

^{THE
INTERNATIONAL CHILD AND YOUTH CARE NETWORK}

Training

____

Certificate in Residential Care for Children and Youth

Ryerson University in Toronto is offering a Certificate in Residential Care for Children and Youth. This Certificate has been specially designed for front-line residential care workers to help develop your abilities by providing the tools and resources that will augment the experience you’ve gained on the job and to help you move to supervisory roles within the residential care community.

The Certificate requires six courses that will provide you with a formal education in the principles, values, and philosophies underlying residential care for children and youth along with practical knowledge that you can apply on the job.

See Course Outline

Flexible and Accessible Learning
We understand the issues front-line residential care workers face in accessing training. To accommodate the demands of your job on your time, we offer the Certificate in Residential Care for Children and Youth entirely online through distance education. You can take a course from anywhere in Canada or North America or Europe, at any time of day during the term in which the course is offered.

Subject to approval by Ryerson University's Academic Council, courses in the Certificate will be equivalent to Child and Youth Care Program degree courses, and therefore transferable to the degree if you subsequently are admitted.

Teaching Staff
Our teaching team is made up of leading figures in the field. Experienced and knowledgeable, they bring up-to-date, applied knowledge to every course.

For example, our fall offerings, January 13 to April 14, 2007 (internet delivery) are:

CVCY Principles of Group Care
offered by Lisa Marucci

This course examines group dynamics and process. A developmental framework will be used to explore the uniqueness of group work with children and youth. Roles of group members, the stag4es of group, and the role of groups in maintaining a therapeutic milieu will be reviewed and applied in community settings.

Lisa is a master’s level clinician with an MSW degree and a degree in Women’s Studies as well as a diploma as a Child Care Worker. Lisa has implemented Canada’s first Child Advocacy Centre and is now the model adopted across Canada to the benefit of children and families affected by child abuse. See Lisa’ personal site www.abalancedlife.ca

CVCY 104 Residential Care Techniques
offered by Thom Garfat

This course, founded in contemporary competency-based Child and Youth Care practice, explores approaches, strategies, and techniques in residential care. Areas covered will include; approaches to group care, characteristics of effective programs, family involvement, intervention planning, needs based interventions; therapeutic discipline, crisis and opportunity, activities; and the role of supervision.

Dr. Thom Garfat has a Doctorate in Child and Youth Care. He has been involved with troubled children and their families, and the staff who work with them for 35 years as a practitioner, supervisor, director, teacher, trainer, consultant and writer. Thom is also the Senior Editor of Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, and co-founder and editor of CYC-NET an international discussion list and CYC-Online, an electronic journal for Child and Youth Care professionals. See Thom’s personal website at www.cyc-net.org/transformaction

Continuing Education Credits
These courses are eligible for continuing education credits.

For more information visit our site at www.ryerson.ca/ce/RCCY or contact the Program Coordinator, Sheldon Reinsilber, by e-mail (sreinsil@ryerson.ca) or phone 416.979.5000 extension 4594.

training