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Podcast

Ultimate Youth Worker on C2Y Podcast: Youth Work Online

A couple of weeks ago our Executive Director had the privilege of speaking with Wolfgang Vachon of C2Y Podcast. In th...
September 26, 2013
Self Care

Good self care in youth work

Self care is an ethical requirement I have heard, over the past year or so, more excuses as to why youth workers can&...
September 24, 2013
Future Professional

Developing leaders in youth work: Its crucial to mentor.

Many years ago after finishing my degree I asked one of my professors for some guidence with an piece of work I was d...
September 18, 2013
Supervision

We need to do better: Critically reflective practice and supervision in youth work

This evening I sat in on a class preparing students for a masters degree placement in the human services. The topic f...
September 17, 2013
mental health

R U ok? a daily question for great youth workers.

Tomorrow is R U OK day here in Australia. R U OK day is an initiative to help the general public support their friend...
September 11, 2013
Professional

Managers just need to get out of the way of great youth work.

In the height of this neoliberalist push towards managerialism we are finding that more managers seem to be looking o...
September 9, 2013
Career

We need more youth worker show offs!!!

I have had a number of discussions lately where people told me they know nothing about youth work. The sad part was t...
September 6, 2013
Professional

Why youth workers need to take a holiday.

I was recently talking to a youth worker who hadn’t had a holiday in over five years. Aside from a couple of lo...
September 4, 2013
Professional

Great tools for youth workers: Use an Ecomap.

One of the most used tools I have in my kit is an Ecomap. An Ecomap is a graphical representation of the systems at w...
August 28, 2013
Ultimate Youth Worker

Why we need youth mentoring programs.

Recently in my state many of the youth mentoring programs have had to come to terms with losing their funding. This h...
August 27, 2013