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Dealing with our God complex!!!

I remember not long after I got married about 5 years into my youth work career being out every other night...

What post-qualifying education might look like!!!

I have been thinking a lot lately about the need for ongoing professional development and post-qualifying educat...
Relational youth work

The importance of good professional supervision

Over the course of my career I have had over a dozen supervisors throughout half a dozen or so specialities. Some of ...

The need for audacious Ultimate Youth Workers

Over the past two days I have attended the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVIC) ConnectFor conference in Melbou...

What extra standing will i have if Youth Workers professionalise?

I was recently chating with a bunch of social workers about their professional association and it became clear to me ...

The debate rolls on.

I was speaking to a group of youth work educators this week when the question of professionalising came up. I was int...