Graduate Certificate in Transforming Child Protection to Wellbeing

You bring experience in working with children and youth at a professional or policy level. You want to engage in work that focuses on interventions that impact the lived realities of children and youth locally and internationally.

The Graduate Certificate in Transforming Child Protection to Wellbeing helps you to critically reflect on and build an understanding of what's needed to work in partnership with communities to transform practices from their current state to a more holistic and effective approach to child and youth wellbeing.

In this program, you'll work cross-culturally, learning to support children and youth to thrive in various contexts, in Canada and globally.

You'll examine professional and regulatory systems, learning about how change can be made on a systemic level. You'll also look at, and work with, the informal systems that affect child wellbeing at a community level.

In doing so, you'll expand your understanding beyond ethnocentric models or solutions for child protection, child rights, and child wellbeing.

By addressing the complex interrelationships between individuals, cultures, and systems around child wellbeing, you'll gain the ability to address the questions of what it means to be a child — and to thrive — in various contexts. By bringing children's voices into policy and programming initiatives, you'll have the ability to impact regulatory and community change to make a positive difference in children's lives.

This program was developed in collaboration with two prominent international organizations in child rights, child protection, and wellbeing. The International Institute for Child Rights and Development's input helps bring a participatory methodology to your learning. Input from Child Frontiers provides the perspective of working with development and humanitarian agencies and working at the policy level with local and national governments.