Dr. Kim Snow, CCW, MSW, Ph.D. (Toronto)

Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care
Tel: 416-979-5000, ext. 4593   E-mail: ksnow@ryerson.ca

Kim has extensive practice experience in both frontline and management, in children's mental health, child welfare and youth offender settings. She has taught in the area of children and youth services at the graduate and undergraduate level. A strong advocate for high quality services to children and youth, she actively promotes the continuing educational development of Child and Youth Care Practitioners. She holds both North American and provincial certification as a Child and Youth Practitioner as well as being a Registered Social Worker in Ontario. Since 1990, Kim has maintained a private practice offering assessment and treatment to children and families.

She is an outspoken advocate for the realization of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (UN, 1989). Her research agenda focuses on blending popular education with participatory research methods with young people and with community groups. She has interest in critical discourse analysis, concepts of voice and participatory methods. 

Current research activities include the Voyager Project a multi phased educational outreach strategy aimed at supporting children in the care of the state to participate in post secondary education. This peer support strategy works with a number of partners and is supported in part by the Children’s Aid Foundation. Kim is currently working on a SSHRC funded participatory evaluation research project with Sachigo Lake First Nation. This project develops local capacity in service management and evaluation.

Kim currently teaches: CYC201: Child Abuse and Neglect: Children's Rights. She is appointed to the School of Graduate Studies and teaches CS8926: Risk and Resilience: Child and Family and CS8936: Children’s Rights. Her teaching interests include the incorporation of audio and video technology within the classroom to address the needs of various learning styles. She is a long-time member of the OACYC and encourages collective action by the discipline through membership.