Where Care Learned to Speak

Shemine Gulamhusein

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Histories and the Making of Child and Youth Care

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Maybe It's Us Now with Kristy Dellebuur O'Connor and Jeff Smith

Joined by colleagues and friends Dr. Kristy Dellebuur O'Connor and Dr. Jeff Smith, we collectively reflect on the conversations and histories shared throughout the first twelve episodes of Where Care Learned to Speak. Kristy brings her passions for Child and Youth Care education, disrupting coloniality, knitting, hiking, music-making, family, and community, while Jeff describes himself as “a bit of a shitshow, but seems to have a few redeeming working-class values—so we keep him around” personalities to the conversation. Together, we grapple with the tensions of contemporary Child and Youth Care education and practice, questioning how neoliberal institutions shape scholarship, relationships, and possibilities for critical engagement. Moving between mentorship, belonging, coloniality, and the importance of thinking together, this conversation invites us to consider what we carry forward, what we might challenge, and how we continue becoming a field in relation to one another.
Oct 6

It's An Ethic of Care with Dr. Marie Hoskins

In conversation with Dr. Marie Hoskins, we revisit the making of Child and Youth Care and consider relational practice, teaching, scholarship, and the ethic of care that continues to shape how the field understands itself. Dr. Marie L. Hoskins is Professor Emerita in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, where she devoted her academic career to teaching, research, mentorship, and the advancement of knowledge in child and youth care. Dr. Hoskins holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MEd and PhD from the University of Victoria. Her scholarly work has focused specifically on adolescent girls’ development, identity formation, disordered eating, family relationships, and the ways in which cultural and social narratives influence how young people understand themselves. Her research has drawn extensively on qualitative and interpretive approaches to understanding human change and experience. Throughout her career, Dr. Hoskins was deeply committed to teaching and to supporting the next generation of practitioners and researchers. She supervised numerous graduate students and involved students in her research, encouraging them to develop their own interests and perspectives. In recognition of her teaching, UVic highlighted her enthusiasm for learning, and her ability to create a creative and stimulating learning environment in which students felt motivated and inspired. Her professional interests also extended beyond the university. Dr. Hoskins was a member of the Taos Institute, an international organization devoted to multidisciplinary practices in a variety of settings. Another international initiative addressed the experiences of children and young people affected by armed conflict, where she was part of a team led by Lt-General (Rt) Romeo Dallaire. Dr. Hoskins’ career at the University of Victoria reflects a lasting commitment to understanding the experiences of children, youth, and families, while nurturing thoughtful, compassionate, and critically engaged professionals and researchers. More than anything else, this was her passion and the highlight of her career. She is now retired from the university and holds the title of Professor Emerita.
Sep 14

Just Staying Open to Learning with Penny Stephenson

In this episode, I speak with Penny Stephenson, one of the first graduates of UVic's Child Care Program, about finding her way into a field that was itself still taking shape. Penny reflects on the interdisciplinary education that informed her practice, her early work at Cedar Lodge, and the changes she witnessed across decades of supporting children and young people. Our conversation moves through questions of inclusion, advocacy, experiential learning, and what it means to remain open to learning throughout a career. Woven throughout is a reminder that care is ultimately relational and shaped by the connections we build with young people, families, colleagues, and one another. After graduating in 1974, Penny worked at Cedar Lodge, a residential neurological center in British Columbia. She initially worked as an evening care worker for a year and then moved into the school program where she spent another five years. She stopped working, briefly, to have her two sons and then in 1986, she started on call at the Cowichan School District, where she worked for 30 plus years, until retiring.
Aug 31

Repetitive Reflections - A Pondering Pause

What happens when the conversations we have keep echoing long after they end? In this Pondering Pause episode, I reflect on some of the questions that have been following me through the first half of the season, such as who do we read? Who gets to be seen as a child and youth care practitioner or scholar? What happens when we make room for ways of knowing, being, and practicing that sit outside dominant conversations? And what does it mean to show up, as human beings and practitioners, in difficult and uncertain times? I find myself thinking about the scholars I encountered and those I missed, about migration, spirituality, Indignity, culture, and ways care is shaped by the worlds we bring with us, about the edges of the fireld and who finds themselves there, and about provocations such as "it's not the time to be timid". The last idea, in particular, leaves me wondering about courage, privilege, and what we might be willing to risk in order to speak, act, and care differently. I don't have answers to these questions. In fact, one of the things this podcast continues to remind me is just how much I still have to hear, learn, and grapple with. For now, I'm interesting in staying with the questions and noticing how they might shift my own understanding of my place within child and youth care.
Aug 17

Raising Indigenous Children with Dr. Martin Brokenleg

Dr. Martin Brokenleg, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, has dedicated his career to bridging Indigenous and Eurocentric ways of caring and supporting children and youth. He is co-author of the book Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future and co-developer of the Circle of Courage model. Over the past 30 years, he has co-hosted an annual conference, Reclaiming Youth Seminars. Dr. Brokenleg holds a doctorate in psychology and is a graduate of the Anglican Divinity School. Most recently, he was Director of Native Ministries and Professor of First Nations Theology at the Vancouver School of Theology. Previously, he was a Professor of Native American studies at Augustana University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He has also been a director of The Neighborhood Youth Corps, chaplain in a correctional setting, and has extensive experience as an alcohol counsellor. Dr. Brokenleg has consulted and led training programs throughout North America, New Zealand, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.
Aug 3

Now is Not the Time to be Timid with Dr. Hans Skott-Myhre

Hans Skott-Myhre worked with unhoused youth in a variety of settings for 25 years. For the last 25 years, he has been a Professor at Brock University in Child and Youth Studies until 2015 and is currently in the Social Work and Human Services Department at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Youth Subcultures as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work, co-author of Habitus of the Hood, co-editor of With Children and Youth and Youth work, Early Education and Psychology: Liminal Encounters, as well as co-editor of Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics Through Immanent Aesthetics and Troubling Multiculturalism. He is also the author of Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry: Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism and the co-author of Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject. Most recently he is the co-author of Health and Human Services: A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice slated for publication in fall of 2026. He is a deep thinker and has published multiple articles, reviews and book chapters.
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.

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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

13
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Explicit
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© Shemine Gulamhusein
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Where Care Learned to Speak