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Welcome from the director

Welcome or welcome back to SCYC. We are now in the midst of the 2011-12 academic year with a full enrolment in our graduate and undergraduate programs. We have had healthy applicant numbers, have a current group of exciting students and are looking ahead to a great year.

Our summer convocation will see two more PhD’s cross the stage along with MA and BCYC grads. We are pleased that so many of our students are finding jobs and that employers are reporting to us that SCYC grads are preferred hires.

We had a great CYC in Action conference in April and many thanks to the co-chairs Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Jennifer White and the staff team led by Sandra Curran and Miriam Curtis. We had about 160 attendees, keynotes by Sibylle Artz and Jin-Sun Yoon and a half-day symposium to start the conference.

Our next CYC in Action Conference will be in 2013 – the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the school. Planning has begun for our conference and other events for the year. If you want to be involved let us know.

At the conference we acknowledged the on-going relationship we have with the Burnside Gorge Community Centre that has been a site for over 20 years for so we many practicum students and have begun a small undergraduate award named in their honour.

This year we are also piloting our first undergraduate honours seminar to help prepare students for potential graduate studies and enriching our program.

I want to again say thanks to all for hard work and diligence in teaching, studying, supporting and administering the life of SCYC.

Dr. Daniel Scott
Director

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Day in the life: Katherine Woodhouse

A day in the life of Katherine Woodhouse is mostly tasked with bringing order to things. On any given day, Woodhouse is at the center of the action—whether she’s wearing the distinguished hat of Chief Marshal for Convocation, donning a safety vest as her building’s emergency coordinator or harmonizing budgets, human resources and assorted paperwork for the School of Child and Youth Care (CYC).

"I was recently asked to come up with a symbol for how I would represent myself in my department," explains Woodhouse. "I chose a tapestry; a kind of web that weaves between every activity that is going on and touches every person’s work in some way. That's how I can best sum it up."

Day in the life: Katherine Woodhouse.

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