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I’m a Slut…No one will love me!!!

Hard conversations are bread and butter for the average youth worker. I always love walking into a new youth work env...
February 26, 2013
Celebrate
Career

Become more than you are right now: A youth work specialist

As a parent I want to see my children have more opportunities than I did as a child. I want to see them bec...
February 19, 2013
Ethics

Virtue Ethics and Practical Wisdom.

This week we are learning through video. This is a short clip of Barry Schwartz speaking on Virtue etthics and practi...
February 5, 2013
Alcohol and Other Drugs

Roizen’s 4L’s helping young people begin to deal with substance misuse

Roizen’s 4L’s We all know that substance abuse is on the rise in adolescents the world over. It is often ...
January 31, 2013
Ethics

Do you have a code of ethics???

Working with young people has led me to be in some dicey situations throughout my career. I have worked with young pe...
January 29, 2013
Career

How youth worker’s can get more things done!

I love to read! it is an insatiable fetish that I have. I never had it until I hit my mid twenties and then I wa...
January 24, 2013
Future

What will youth work look like in 2013? The finale.

Its been a month and a half in the making but we are finally there. The finale of our series looking at the next twel...
January 17, 2013
Self Care

Survival plan for the stressed youth worker.

Over the years I have become a keen survivalist. Not the crazy people with guns coming out their wazoo that you ...
January 10, 2013
Future

What will youth work look like in 2013?

It is with great pleasure and a sad heart that we come to our final guest post in this series. We have heard from a n...
January 8, 2013

What’s left in your top draw while your on Christmas holidays???

Every year in the lead up to Christmas I get so excited about the time off that I have coming up that everything take...
December 20, 2012