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online

Youth workers need to be in the online space.

Over the past few weeks I have had dozens of conversations around why youth workers and their services need to be usi...
May 27, 2014
Professional

Youth work needs to rid itself of its inferiority complex.

Over the years no other issue in youth work has bugged me more than the discussions about how we need to become more ...
May 26, 2014
Motivation

What are you struggling with at the moment?

Every so often I like to take the pulse of the people I serve. I want to know what is going well. What is happening i...
May 20, 2014
Professional

Leadership: Guest post drownthenoise.com

Leadership.  For an extremely long time now people have understood the importance of having good leaders.  This is em...
May 20, 2014
Future

How economic rationalism is changing Australia for young people.

Economic rationalism is hurting our young people Working with young people is a job drought with concern and trepidat...
May 14, 2014
Career

Youth work and excellence.

One of the values of Ultimate Youth Worker is ‘excellence in all we do’. We expect that if people are pay...
May 13, 2014
Supervision

8 tips for amazing youth work external supervision.

External supervision Two years ago when Ultimate Youth Worker began we started as a small external supervision servic...
May 6, 2014
Professional

Youth workers: write, do or do both.

The most well known youth workers world wide are often one of two types of people. They are either the academics who ...
May 5, 2014
Professional

Relational youth work.

I have been in contact with a youth worker lately who is currently writing a book about relational youth work. In our...
April 30, 2014
Self Care

Youth worker self-care: Meditation

Self care through meditation I was recently looking for a little something new to add to my self-care repertoire. I w...
April 29, 2014