How can youth participation happen when communities don’t ‘like’ young people.

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Youth participation in community is a long way off I have just spent the last hour refuting stupidity on my local com...

February 17, 2015

All to often we are judged by our pasts. Most often by the decisions we have made which went awry. We look behind us ...

February 2, 2015

Greatness in something small. In youth work we are going through our own adolescent storm and stress. We are pushing ...

January 25, 2015

My career as a youth worker has always pushed the boundaries. Whether it was pushing social workers in family service...

January 19, 2015

Welcome to 2015! Woo Hoo. Well 2014 throughout Australia and indeed the world saw youth work under the pump. In Austr...

January 5, 2015

Christmas present ideas for an Ultimate Youth Worker Twas the week before Christmas and if your like me, your wonderi...

December 18, 2014

Celebrate successes Tonight I met a bunch of youth workers for dinner to celebrate the amazing work they had done thr...

December 10, 2014

I have been speaking to a lot of youth workers in the slow grind to the end of the year and it seems we are all losin...

December 8, 2014

Surviving is key to the silly season. December One. The beginning of the silly season. The first day of the run to th...

December 1, 2014

Throughout my career as a youth worker and particularly over the past few years of educating youth workers I have bee...

November 25, 2014