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About the Institute

PURPOSE

The Child and Youth Care Worker Certification Institute is a collaborative effort by leading Texas organizations that provide support and services to children and families. The purpose of the Institute is to promote the improvement of services to children and youth by:

  • Certifying individual child/youth care work practitioners;
  • Accrediting training and education programs for child/youth care work practitioners; and
  • Researching professional practices of child/youth care workers

The organization is a 501(c)(6), non-profit corporation administered by a board of directors drawn from the leading child care and child welfare organizations in Texas, representatives of certified child/youth care workers, educators, and community consumer groups.

The organization is vested with the responsibility to develop, coordinate, and manage the overall certification and education system developed for child/youth care practitioners in Texas through the use of processes and within the standards set by the Texas Youth and Child Care Worker Association.

The Certification Institute is the group in Texas that:

  • represents the needs of all of the major groups which compose the field of child care practice (practitioners, service provider organizations, educators, and consumer groups).
  • provides planning that spans the entire field of practice (early childhood education, foster care, treatment, community youth services, physical and developmental disabilities, juvenile corrections, and foster parenting).
  • is developing a unified credentialing and education system to link existing and emerging certifications under one comprehensive career development system.
  child care youth work child and youth care practice CYC practitioners quality child care professional child and youth work child care research training education Texas child care quality programs credentialing purpose mission statement about child youth care worker certification institute The CYC Certification Institute promotes improvements in the quality of child and youth care practice by certifying individual child/youth care work practitioners, accrediting training and education programs for Texas CYC practitioners, and researching professional practices of child/youth care workers. The Child and Youth Care Worker Certification Institute is a collaborative effort by leading Texas child care, education, and welfare organizations to promote the improvement of services to children.