About the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services

The Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies (CYAF) is a Department within the College of Education and Human Sciences. Reorganization within the College in July 1992 resulted in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences which, in 2007, subsequently became the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies. Graduate Programs lead to a Master of Science Degree in Child, Youth and Family Studies, or a Ph.D. in Human Sciences with specializations in Child, Youth and Family Studies or Medical Family Therapy.2