Library and Academic Services: Child and Youth Care: Websites

Reports

Legislation and Standards

Manitoba

The Centre for Research in Young people's Texts and Cultures
The Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC) supports scholarly inquiry into literary, media, and other cultural texts for children and youth.
Child and Family Services - Province of Manitoba
The child and family services (CFS) system helps to ensure that families and communities provide for the safety and well-being of their children. There are a number of provincial laws that are in place to accomplish this goal. The most important ones are The Child and Family Services Act, The Adoption Act and The Child and Family Services Authorities Act.
Child and Youth Programs - Province of Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba, has developed a network of supports and strategies for children, youth and families.
The Kinship & Foster Family Network of Manitoba
The Kinship & Foster Family Network of Manitoba is a non-profit charitable organization funded by the province of Manitoba. The Network’s Board membership is fully comprised of Kinship and foster parents. The Network provides kinship and foster parents with training, guidance, and assistance to enhance their capacities, knowledge and skills to provide quality care.
Manitoba Advocate for Children & Youth
The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth is empowered by legislation to advise children, youth, and young adults of their rights and the services which should be available to them. The Advocate also has the responsibility to raise issues with government on behalf of the province’s children, and to advise the government on issues and areas of concern.
Metis Child and Family Services Authority
The Metis Child and Family Services Authority exists to strengthen and support the health and well-being of Metis families and communities.
Voices: Manitoba Youth in Care Network
Through youth driven community awareness and advocacy, Voices: Manitoba’s Youth in Care Network is committed to empowering and supporting youth in and from care.
Zoongizi Ode Inc. Strong Hearts
Zoongizi Ode Inc. (formerly Fearless R2W) is dedicated to empowering youth and families in Manitoba impacted by complex systems, through advocacy, education, and support. Rooted in the values of love, cultural safety, and Indigenous sovereignty, we create lasting change by challenging systems, fostering self-determination, and empowering communities.

Canada

Assembly of Seven Generations
Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G) is an Indigenous youth led & driven grassroots, non profit organization focused on community support and opportunities for Indigenous youth, based in Unceded Algonquin Territory.
Black Legal Action Centre
Established in 2017, the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) is an independent not-for-profit community legal clinic that combats individual and systemic anti-Black racism by providing free legal services, conducting research, developing public legal education materials, and engaging in test case litigation and law reform.
Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal
Provides access to up-to-date research on Canadian child welfare programs and policies.
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
The First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada was developed at a national meeting of First Nations Child and Family Service agencies in 1998. Meeting delegates agreed that a national non-profit organization was required to provide research, policy, professional development and networking support to support FNCFSA in caring for First Nations children, youth and families.
The Homeless Hub
The Homeless Hub is a web-based research library and information centre. A place where services providers, researchers, government representatives, students, and the general public can access and share research, stories, and best practices.
Knowledge Institute on Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions
Formerly known as the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. Since 2004, we’ve supported Ontario child and youth mental health agencies, communities and decision makers to help young people in our province develop in ways that expand their future opportunities and ensure lifelong mental health.
Landon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights Resource Collection
Located at the Landon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights, the Collection contains over 10,000 documents related to the study of childhood and children’s rights. The collection has a special focus on Indigenous children's rights, childhood in Russia, child health, and the history of children's rights in Canada.
Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care
The Ontario Association of Child and Youth Care (OACYC) is the professional association representing Child and Youth Care Practitioners (CYCP) in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies Publications
OACAS is an association representing 49 member organizations. Of these, 47 are mandated Children’s Aid Societies and Indigenous Child and Family Well-Being Agencies and two are pre-mandated Indigenous agencies.
Youth in Care Canada
A national, charitable organization driven by youth and alumni from child welfare authorities across Canada. YICC exists to voice the opinions and concerns of youth in and from care.

United States

Child and Youth Care Certification
CYCCB is led by a volunteer Board of Directors composed of members elected by CYC Certified Practitioners or appointed by the Board to represent key partnering organizations.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families.
NCTSN - The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) was created to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for children and families who experience or witness traumatic events.

International

Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University
At the Centre for Children and Young People, our research focuses on the rights and wellbeing of children and young people (0-25 years) in the different contexts in which they live their lives. Children and young people’s views and experiences are central to the research that we do, why we do it and how it is approached.
Child Trauma Academy
With a long history of working with high-risk children through education, research and the dissemination of innovation, CTA's insight remains online as a shared resource.
CYC-Net
The International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-Net) is a registered non-profit and public benefit organisation in South Africa. The organisation's main objectives are (primarily through the internet and electronic media) to promote and facilitate reading, learning, information sharing, discussion, networking, support and accountable practice amongst all who work with children, youth and families in difficulty.
Human Rights Watch Children's Rights
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 550 plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need.
RAY Network
The RAY Network – Research-based Analysis and Monitoring of Youth Programmes – is an open and self-governed European research network. Currently, 36 National Agencies of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action & European Solidarity Corps programmes and their research partners are involved.
Unicef Convention on the Rights of the Child
In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.
It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world.
Youth Policy Labs
a multidisciplinary team of researchers, communicators, content creators, and practitioners with a wide range of backgrounds. Founded in 2010 and generously supported by the Open Society Foundations, our work started at youthpolicy.org – building a hub for knowledge and expertise on youth, youth policies, and youth issues.

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