有时，生活可能会令人难以承受。通过成为儿童与青少年护理专业人士，您可以在经历挑战性生活环境的儿童和青少年的生活中创造有意义的改变。邦联学院的儿童和青少年保育（CYC）加速计划将为您提供与面对困境的儿童和青年进行互动并增强其能力所需的技能和知识。CYC的基本观点是在土著和北方实践的背景下，通过以理论和实践为导向的方法来培养的。这些观点包括：关系，对发展负责的，基于优势的实践，创伤和危机干预，宣传技巧和社区参与，以及对CYC实践采用社会正义和基于权利的方法。还应加深对CYC实践趋势的了解，以及对年轻人进行康复
Engage and empower targeted children and youth facing adversity, while gaining a unique grounding in the communities of northwestern Ontario. Confederation College's Child and Youth Care (CYC), Accelerated program provides you with a unique experiential specialization focused on serving Indigenous youth and their families. You will gain the skills and knowledge needed to cultivate resilience and self-advocacy with young people, helping them to find their voice. Using life-space intervention, in a variety of relational practice contexts, is the cornerstone of the CYC professional identity. Subjects and skill sets fostered include relational understandings of self, others and community, developmentally and culturally responsive practices, Indigenous models of healing and wellness, trauma and crisis interventions, advocacy, social justice and rights-based approaches, and community engagement. Graduates will have a thorough understanding of current trends in CYC practice, while their unique professional identity can serve them locally, regionally or beyond.<br><br>You will graduate with an advanced diploma with knowledge and skills required to work within multi-disciplinary teams, supporting vulnerable young people and their families, in the following practice contexts: school-based programs, community crisis response programs, youth criminal justice diversion and custody programs, children's mental health residential-, family- and community-based programs, child welfare group care and case management programs, hospital-based inpatient programs, substance abuse outpatient, residential and prevention programs, Indigenous culturally-based programs and more.