Faculty & Staff

Chelan McCallion is an Assistant Professor in the Bachelor of Child Studies. Prior to her full-time appointment, Chelan taught within a contract capacity within both the Child and Youth Care (CYCC) major and Bachelor of Child Studies (BCST) degree since 2013. She is also an instructor at the Riel Institute for Education and Learning with the Aboriginal Family & Youth Support Program (AFYS). Chelan has worked in the human services sector for over 17 years in a variety of capacities, focusing most of her career on the complexities of young adults leaving therapeutic campus-based settings, Youth Transition to Adulthood (YTA) and vocational programming. Chelan uses the pronouns she/her.

Areas of Instruction

• Mental Health Interventions
• Assessment and Intervention
• Child Development and Plasticity
• Mental Health and Substance Use
• Contemporary Issues in Child Studies

Areas of Scholarship

• Teaching and Learning 
• Child and Youth Care Professional Practice 
• Youth in Transition

Selected Publications

McCallion, C. (2018) Youth in transition. In P. Kostouros & B. Thompson (Ed.), Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada: Cases from front-line settings. (pp. 243-264). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars

McCallion, C (2018) Engagement in child and youth Care settings. In P. Kostouros & M. Briegel (Ed.), Child and Youth Care Practice: Collected Wisdom for New Practitioners. (pp. 11-18). Cape Town, South Africa, The CYC-Net Press

McCallion, C (2018) Supervision. In P. Kostouros & M. Briegel (Ed.), Child and Youth Care Practice: Collected Wisdom for New Practitioners. (pp. 87-93). Cape Town, South Africa, The CYC-Net Press

Selected Presentations

McCallion, C. M., & Kostouros, P. A. (2023). Labour-based Grading in the Bachelor of Child Studies. Teaching in Practice-Based Professions: Unmuted!

McCallion, C. M., Mohamed, Q., & Burch, A. (2023). Craftivism with BCST & MRU’s Maker Studio. Celebrate! Teaching and Learning Conference.

Kostouros, P., Briegel M., & McCallion C. (2023 Virtual). The importance of addressing compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in supervision. Together the Voice.org

McCallion, C. M and Bachelor of Child Studies Students (2022). Craft + Activism = Craftivism in CYC. National Child and Youth Care Conference: Reaching for a Better Tomorrow.