About this journal

Aims and scope

Child & Youth Services is an international academic journal devoted to advancing knowledge and thinking about relational engagement with children, youth, their families, and communities. Recognizing that children and youth, no matter what challenges they may face, are citizens of the world, the journal is a forum for dialogue among the international community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the lives of young people.

Through peer-reviewed articles, columns, book reviews, and op-ed pieces, Child & Youth Services addresses topics of concern to children and youth in the multiple arenas of their lives, including but not limited to residential care, street and homeless youth work practice, juvenile corrections, relational practice, program development and implementation, and youth policy. The journal highlights the intersections of research and practice, inviting articles that speak to scholarly as well as practice audiences.

Child & Youth Services brings together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including child and youth care, social work, education, social policy, and family studies.

Peer Review:

All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and full peer review.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 72K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.1 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 1.1 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 1.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.586 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.346 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editors

Patti Ranahan, PhD

Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Editors Emeritus

Jerome Beker, Youth Studies Program, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

Kiaras Gharabaghi, School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Doug Magnuson, School of Child & Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada

Grant Charles, PhD,  Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Associate Managing Editor

Ben Anderson-NathePortland State University 

Editorial Assistant

Cassidy Kennedy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa

EDITORIAL BOARD

Merle Allsopp, National Association of Child Care Workers, Glosderry, South Africa

James P. Anglin, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada

Mordecai Arieli, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Michael Baizerman, Youth Studies Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

Cheryl Baldwin, University of Illinois Extension, Rockford, USA

F. Herbert Barnes, Youthorizons, Portland, ME, USA

Mary Burnison, St. Paul, MN, USA

Sherwood B. Chorost, Westfield, NJ, USA

Rivka Eisikovitz, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Jerry Fest, The InterNetwork for Youth, Portland, OR, USA

Leon Fulcher, Foster Care Associates, Dunfernlime, Scotland

Ken Harland, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Ireland

Lisa Kimball, Center for Ministry of Teaching Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA, USA

Erik Knorth, Department of Special Education and Child Care, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Anthony N. Maluccio, School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

CJ Pascoe, Department of Sociology, Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Hans Skott-Myhre, Brock University, Ontario, Canada

Christoph Steinebach, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland

Marney Thomas, YouthLink, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Karen Vanderven, Department of Child Development and Child Care, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

James K. Whittaker, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Johanna Wyn, Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia

Abstracting and indexing

Abstracted and/or indexed in: CSA Sociological Abstracts; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; ERIC; PsycINFO; PSYCLINE; ProQuest CSA; and SocINDEX.

Open access

Child & Youth Services is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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