Aaron Garth

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I have been asked this question about a dozen times over the last six months by eager young potential youth workers l...

November 18, 2013

For youth workers to be the best they can be, they need well trained and supported management. We need to have manage...

November 12, 2013

Self care is an OHS issue Over the past few months I have been reading as many articles as I could get my hands on lo...

November 4, 2013

In a month I will be speaking at a conference in my nations capital city about the need for self care in our sector. ...

October 22, 2013

Two years ago almost to the day I joined the board of an organisation. In that time I have served faithfully have onl...

October 16, 2013

I have recently been reviewing the student placements of a number of youth work students. I have been speaking with t...

October 15, 2013

My best friends think that I am absolutely nuts. How can I work day in and day out with people who almost ritualistic...

October 14, 2013

Promoting self care One of my best mates in youth work said to me today that he had been speaking to a bunch of peop...

October 8, 2013

I was recently speaking to an organisation who were going to fire a youth worker. They had a list of grievances a mil...

October 7, 2013

Today I was reflecting on my career and the major traumatic events that I have seen. I was speaking to a class of sch...

October 2, 2013