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The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast – 002 What is youth work?

To support the podcast, donate here! What is youth work? What is youth work? It is a question that has haunted our pr...
The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast

Podcast 001: A Balanced Life

To support the podcast, donate here! A Balanced Life In this weeks Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast we explore the need ...

Youth work students becoming youth work staff

The future of a youth work student. Last week was youth work week. A time for us to reflect as a profession on how aw...

Student placements: youth work training ground

Over the course of my studies I have completed close on 200 days of field placement. As a youth work student this con...

Youth ministry and youth work not quite the same

I am writing this while sitting in a session at the National Youth Ministry Convention in Tweed Heads on the usually ...

Self care is hard if you don’t plan for it!

Self care is hard So my last two months have been absolutely crazy. I have spoken at the Tasmanian Youth Conference i...
Youth mental health

Youth workers as mental health gatekeepers

We’ve been asked a fair bit over the last month what our stance is on mental health. There seems to be two camp...

Annual report 2014-2015

What are we up to: Youth mental health

We have met with a number of our supporters lately and one question keeps coming up…What are we up to at the mo...

Youth work: The professional relationship

I have been rereading “Youth Work Ethics” by Professor Howard Sercombe lately. I forgot how good a read i...