The Relational Thread
					Mentoring in Child and Youth Care Practice
					1st Edition
				Editors:  John Digney PhD and Heather Modlin, PhD
				ISBN 978-1-7764578-7-8
Published: 2025
Pages: 200
				As I read the passages, I reflected on my 
				own growth and the relationships that shaped me, and my heart 
				was warmed by the power of genuine human connection.
				Mark Strother - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating 
				Officer, Cal Farley's, USA
					The book will be a valuable resource 
					to all those who work with people in human services and 
					leadership development and inspires a growth mindset.
					Rosarii Mannion - National Director People and 
					Change, Tusla, Ireland
					The authors and contributors bring an 
					unprecedented wealth of history and experiences in our field 
					with the unbreakable common thread being the immense value 
					of relationships.
Kari Sisson - Executive 
					Director, ACRC, USA
					Woven through this book are 
					narratives and themes that speak directly to many if not all 
					of the fundamental principles of relational practice.
					Shane Murdoch - Director, TransformOutcomes, New 
					Zealand
					This book encouraged me to reflect on 
					my own journey and experience in mentorship; both as a 
					practitioner and as a leader considering how to strengthen 
					mentoring within my own organization.
Renee 
					Piercey - Executive Director, Waypoints Inc., St Johns, 
					Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
					... we learn [what mentoring] is and 
					what it isn't, how it usually develops organically rather 
					than in a planned way, and how it is a gift that keeps on 
					giving, helping equip the next generation of child and youth 
					care workers.
Simon Walsh - CEO, Allambi Care, 
					New South Wales, Australia
					We need tradition – we stand on the 
					shoulders of giants. Many of those giants, along with their 
					ideas, grace these pages. They tell the story of where we 
					have come from and why that is important. They lay down 
					solid foundations for the field.
Mark Smith - 
					Professor of Social Work, School of Humanities, Social 
					Sciences and Law, Division of Education and Society, 
					University of Dundee, Scotland
					This book does not set out to define 
					the concept of 'mentoring,' but to demonstrate that 
					mentoring may first be a feeling experienced by the mentee, 
					and that mentorship follows as the process. It was 
					fascinating to read about the deep intimacies woven 
					throughout the relationships in these chapters. Many of the 
					relationships described felt not only helpful but, in some 
					cases, therapeutic (though not in the clinical sense). 
					Ernie Hilton - Executive Director, HomeBridge Youth 
					Society, Nova Scotia, Canada
					These stories serve as a record of 
					our field, preserving the lived experiences and reflective 
					moments that too often pass quietly between us. It reminds 
					us that Child and Youth Care has always been about 
					relationship at its core, and that through those connections 
					we keep learning, again and again about who we are and how 
					we grow together in this practice.
Joanne Fraser 
					- CYC Faculty, Nova Scotia Community College, Nova Scotia, 
					Canada
				
				
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