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Become more educated: Youth work longevity requires it!

Over the past few years I have had the privilege of educating youth workers in a number of educational facilities thr...
July 21, 2014
Professional

Why should a youth worker have supervision?

In the AYAC National Youth Work Snapshot 2013 a survey of youth workers showed that 8.4% of surveyed youth workers ha...
July 1, 2014
Supervision

The youth work supervision environment: importance of neutrality

The supervision environment is important to staff uptake All to often I hear from youth workers that they don’t...
June 24, 2014
Supervision

Seven things a manager needs to know about internal supervision?

You should be doing internal supervision As a youth worker who managed staff one of the areas I spent a lot of my tim...
June 21, 2014
Professional

Chaplains in schools: A youth workers thoughts

Chaplains in schools One of the most contentious issues in youth work today is funding. We don’t have enough mo...
June 3, 2014
Motivation

Just try… your doomed if you don’t!

Many of my clients over the years have been doomed by inaction. In many cases it has not been that they lack ability ...
June 2, 2014
online

Youth workers need to be in the online space.

Over the past few weeks I have had dozens of conversations around why youth workers and their services need to be usi...
May 27, 2014
Professional

Youth work needs to rid itself of its inferiority complex.

Over the years no other issue in youth work has bugged me more than the discussions about how we need to become more ...
May 26, 2014
Motivation

What are you struggling with at the moment?

Every so often I like to take the pulse of the people I serve. I want to know what is going well. What is happening i...
May 20, 2014
Professional

Leadership: Guest post drownthenoise.com

Leadership.  For an extremely long time now people have understood the importance of having good leaders.  This is em...
May 20, 2014