Find your career
Child and youth care practitioners work front-line with children, youth and their families as part of a multi-disciplinary teams.
Settings include:
- School-based programs
- Child welfare and protection
- Group homes and residential treatment facilities
- Community mental health and children’s mental health programs
- Youth outreach centres
- Community-based child and youth development programs
- Home-based care and treatment
- Parent education and family support
- Hospital-based services
- Youth justice programs
- Private practice
Our grads get great jobs
- Child and Youth Worker, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
- Enhanced Support Worker, Military Family Resource Centre
- Program Manager, Applewood Academy
- Child and Youth Service Worker, Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child & Family Services Agency
- Direct Support Professional, Community Living
- Professor of Child and Youth Care, St. Clair College
- Manager, Children’s Mental Health Services, Belleville
- Enhanced Support Worker, Abigail’s Learning Centre
- Child and Youth Counsellor II, Lutherwood Children’s Mental Health
- Child and Youth Worker, Children’s Mental Health, Belleville
- Program Manager, Boys and Girls Club
Is it for you?
Child and Youth Care Practitioners support people to live their best lives. To do this, they need:
- Empathy and good people skills
- The ability to be open minded, accepting and non-judgmental
- A strong desire to help others
- A willingness to learn