Where Care Learned to Speak

Shemine Gulamhusein

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Histories and the Making of Child and Youth Care

Jul 20

Calling in Those Ignored with Dr. Thom Garfat

Thom Garfat, PhD, has worked with young people, families and those who work with them for over 50 years. He holds an MA in Clinical Psychology and his PhD is in Child and Youth Care. He is a member of the Order of Canada, recognized for his “pioneering work in helping troubled children and their families.” Since beginning as a Child Care Worker, Dr. Garfat has supervised residential and community-based programs for young people and families, taught child and youth care practice and family work at the University of Victoria and Ryerson University, and been the Director of Treatment for a large youth serving agency. He is currently an international consultant and trainer for foster care, family care, kinship care, program development and residential care in South Africa, the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and other countries. He is the author of ‘Part of the Circle’, a Plan of Action for revising Youth Healing Services in the Cree Nation of Northern Quebec and has developed Action Plans for youth services for the Provinces of PEI and Nova Scotia. Dr. Garfat is the co-founder and editor of the International Child & Youth Care Network and the Canadian journal Relational Child & Youth Care Practice. He is the author of numerous professional articles and books and was a Senior Trainer for the Circle of Courage. Thom is also the developer of the training, The Purposeful Use of Daily Life Events, which is used worldwide. Through his company, TransformAction, Dr. Garfat offers consultation, training and keynote addresses around the world. His primary focus is on ‘making it work’; finding practical everyday ways to enhance the process of healing and development for young people and families.
Jul 6

Caring for Children is a Sacred Trust with Dr. James Anglin

I return to a conversation with Dr. James Anglin, who, as you might know now, was one of the folks who helped encourage and provoke this podcast. Reflecting on the first few episodes and having completed various other interviews, I was left wondering about the context of the evolution of Child and Youth Care, as a profession, from Dr. Anglin's perspective. In the episode, Dr. Anglin shares insights into the origin of the word "profession", connects Child and Youth Care to spirituality, offers insights into the first Child and Youth Care training programs in Canada, and provides an overview of the theorists, philosophers, and practitioners that have left a mark on his own practice and scholarship. Check out Season 1: Episode 2, to learn more about Dr. Anglin's personal journey through Child and Youth Care, including his work in government(s), mental health facilities, as a group care provider, and later as a researcher with a focus on residential care.
Jun 29

How Do I Listen? - A Pondering Pause

In this episode, I stop and link together thoughts that have come up as I have engaged in conversations with scholars and practitioners. These initial conversations have provoked feelings, curiosities, and reflections, not only of my own but also of my peers, colleagues, and friends. What I've quickly come to realize is that I am hopeful that folks who listen to these conversation do so with a willingness to hear the stories as they are spoken by particular people from particular spaces, and perhaps in spaces of learning, growth, and development such as our CYC classrooms, where the conversations can be contextualized. The one thing I am cautious about is to think about listening from a gentle, respectful, curious unknowing perspective and then to sit and listen again and again and again.
Jun 22

Always Prize Difference with Sibylle Artz

In 1992, after working for 22 years in the field of Child and Youth Care, Dr. Sibylle Artz became a professor in the School of Child and Youth Care. She engaged in participatory, collaborative, and inter- and cross-disciplinary research for more than 30 years, with a focus on gender, culture, class, and community. To that end, she worked for many years with her colleagues, Dr. Ted Riecken and Dr. Diana Nicholson, both from the University of Victoria, and with her European colleague, Dr. Wassilis Kassis, Head of Department at FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, to learn more about violence resilience and pathways that lead away from violence engagement. Dr. Artz is the founding co-editor with Dr. Jennifer White of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies,where they worked to foster and support the dissemination of multicultural and multinational knowledge about children, youth, families and their communities and the challenges they face, and in finding ways to ensure that not only English speaking, predominantly white, North American perspectives receive attention. She has many accolades, including the 1998 Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia’s Academic of the Year Award, selected as a Vancouver Sun’s Special Millennium Feature as one of British Columbia’s 50 most important current intellectuals in 2000, the McCreary Youth Foundation Award of Distinction for Research in 2004, and in 2008, when she was awarded the Victoria Leadership Award.
Jun 8

The Becoming of SCYC with Dr. Alan Pence

Professor Emeritus Alan Pence shares insights into how the School of Child and Youth Care came to be, taking listeners back to 1963, when UVic was formed. Dr. Pence's professional work with children began in 1970 as a teacher at an alternative, inner-city high school. During that time, he became concerned that high school was too late to have a maximally positive impact on a child's development. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, he focused on early childhood while completing his PhD. In 1981, he began his academic career, focusing his research on implementing an ecological approach to understanding child care in Canada. Studies undertaken in Victoria and Vancouver led to a large-scale national study of child care. His first book, Ecological Research with Children and Families: From Concepts to Methodology (1988) featured a Foreword by ecological theory founder, Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner. In 1989, Pence was invited by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council in Saskatchewan to co-envision, and then develop and deliver, an undergraduate program that would incorporate their communities' values and knowledge. The success of that externally evaluated program led to nine additional Tribal organizations co-implementing the program with UVic. The program attracted the interest of the lead for ECD at UNICEF Headquarters, followed by support as well from The World Bank and other international donors. That support led to a set of complementary Capacity-Building and Leadership initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa.
May 25

Six Elements of CYC with Dr. James Anglin

Dr. James Anglin began his career as a child and youth care worker in a mental health centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, after which he developed a 6-bed group home for adolescents in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In this episode, Dr. Anglin shares how he came to develop a group home, his pursuit of graduate studies, and his journey to joining the School of Child and Youth Care in 1979. He tells a compelling story of why CYC matters, what it has to offer, and reminds listeners of keeping the child, youth, and their families centred. Dr. Anglin's extensive practice and scholarship cross multiple borders, not only physically, but through his service as an advisor to the South African Inter-Ministerial Committee on Young People at Risk, as the current president of FICE-Canada, Chair of FICE Americas, Asia, and Australia Region, and as a member of the FICE-International Coordinating Committee. He was the University of Victoria's Associate Vice-President Academic and Director of International Affairs, and is currently a Research Affiliate with the Bronfenbrenner Centre for Translational Research at Cornell University, advising on the development and implementation of the Cornell CARE Program Model that is now being delivered in 7 countries.
Season 1, Episode 1 Trailer

Welcome to Where Care Learned to Speak

In this opening episode, Shemine introduces Where Care Learned to Speak and the questions that gave rise to the podcast: How did Child and Youth Care come to be? How has the field been shaped through relationships, stories, tensions, and practice? And, what becomes possible when we pause long enough to listen to the people who carry its histories? Grounded in a listening-in-relation praxis, this episode situates the podcast as an emergent and relational space for conversation rather than a search for definitive answers. Shemine reflects on her own location within Child and Youth Care as a second-generation immigratnt, Muslim scholar-practitioner, and member of the Child and Youth Care community, while also naming the urgency of preserving the stories early scholars and practitioners whose experiences have often remained outside formal archives. This episode offers an invitation into the unfolding of the podcast and into listening beyond answers, toward stories.

Trailer

Welcome to Where Care Learned to Speak

In this opening episode, Shemine introduces Where Care Learned to Speak and the questions that gave rise to the podcast: How did Child and Youth Care come to be? How has the field been shaped through relationships, stories, tensions, and practice? And, what becomes possible when we pause long enough to listen to the people who carry its histories? Grounded in a listening-in-relation praxis, this episode situates the podcast as an emergent and relational space for conversation rather than a search for definitive answers. Shemine reflects on her own location within Child and Youth Care as a second-generation immigratnt, Muslim scholar-practitioner, and member of the Child and Youth Care community, while also naming the urgency of preserving the stories early scholars and practitioners whose experiences have often remained outside formal archives. This episode offers an invitation into the unfolding of the podcast and into listening beyond answers, toward stories.

Histories and the Making of Child and Youth Care

Creator

Shemine Gulamhusein
Years Active

2026
Episodes

7
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Clean
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Where Care Learned to Speak