https://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/issue/feed 2023-02-01T16:50:33-05:00 Journal of Child and Youth Care Work Team acycpjournal@pitt.edu Open Journal Systems <p><strong>Journal Update</strong>: Currently the first 25 issues of the <em>Journal for Child and Youth Care Work</em> are being prepared to be uploaded to this site.&nbsp; Please be patient as we enter all of the data.&nbsp; We hope to get the articles that we have received loaded onto this site by August 2019 so please check back then. (June 8, 2019)</p> <p><strong>Welcome to the<em> Journal of the Child and Youth Work</em>&nbsp;(JCYCW)</strong>, an open-source, peer-reviewed, yearly online publication. JCYCW is the official journal of the Association for Child and Youth Care Practice (ACYCP) whose mission is to engage practitioners in building the child and&nbsp;youth care profession through collaborative partnerships, promoting innovative training and education, shaping public policy and informing developmental practice through research and scholarship.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> https://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/article/view/448 2022-01-18T10:43:53-05:00 Dale Curry dcurry@kent.edu

<p>Using a sports metaphor (U.S. football), this learning activity provides specific examples pertaining to the five major responsibility domains of the Standards for Practice of the Association for Child and Youth Care Practice. Some of the examples illustrate constructive ways of adhering to the standards while others are questionable and may violate some of the standards.</p>

2023-03-05T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Dale Curry https://acycpjournal.pitt.edu/ojs/jcycw/article/view/9 2021-12-17T02:26:27-05:00 Kathrin Walker kcwalker@umn.edu

<p>Social and emotional learning (SEL) includes learning to be aware of and manage emotions, work well with others, and persevere when faced with challenges. Youth programs develop SEL by intentionally providing young people an opportunity to engage in real-world projects, work in teams, take on meaningful roles, face challenges, and experience the accompanying emotional ups and downs. To do so effectively, child and youth care workers need practical tools and strategies that support SEL skill-building. They need to be fluent in the concepts and language of SEL, and aware of their own SEL competencies and cultural values before than are ready to help support SEL with young people. “Practitioners play an influential role in social and emotional learning of the young people they work with, but it does not happen by accident” (Blyth, Olson, &amp; Walker, 2017, p. 1).</p> <p><em>Social Emotional Learning in Practice: A Toolkit of Practical Strategies and Resources </em>is a freely downloadable and printable PDF that is available online. It includes activities, templates, and tools organized to help program staff: (a) enhance their knowledge of SEL, their own SEL skills and values, and how their program supports SEL; (b) establish expectations, give feedback, and integrate reflection; (c) infuse SEL into youth program activities; and (d) collect data for program improvement.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p>

2023-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Kathrin Walker