Activity Matters
Using Activities to Build Connections in Child and
Youth Care
Jack Phelan - editor
ISBN 978-1-7764578-0-9
Published: August 2023
Pages: 173
This book is organized as a text
for college level Child and Youth Care students, but it
also is a resource for practitioners who need a
practical guide to build more effective activity-based
approaches.
Creating recreational experiences
that are useful, fun and impactful, is a very large part
of working in the life space. Practitioners must be
fully prepared to use activity work to support the young
people and families that they serve, and this book is
designed to train newer CYC staff in the complexity of
doing those activities.
The title Activity Matters
is both a challenge and a reminder that Child and Youth
Care programs can be powerful change agents for young
people and families, and the use of well planned and
theoretically sound activity experiences will create
meaningful and effective results.
Royalties from sales of this
title are donated to the CYC-Net/Brian
Gannon Scholarship Fund. Established in
2020, this scholarship supports qualifying Child and
Youth Care practitioners in post-graduate Child and
Youth Care Studies at the University of Strathclyde.
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