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Future

How economic rationalism is changing Australia for young people.

Economic rationalism is hurting our young people Working with young people is a job drought with concern and trepidat...
May 14, 2014
Career

Youth work and excellence.

One of the values of Ultimate Youth Worker is ‘excellence in all we do’. We expect that if people are pay...
May 13, 2014
Supervision

8 tips for amazing youth work external supervision.

External supervision Two years ago when Ultimate Youth Worker began we started as a small external supervision servic...
May 6, 2014
Professional

Youth workers: write, do or do both.

The most well known youth workers world wide are often one of two types of people. They are either the academics who ...
May 5, 2014
Professional

Relational youth work.

I have been in contact with a youth worker lately who is currently writing a book about relational youth work. In our...
April 30, 2014
Self Care

Youth worker self-care: Meditation

Self care through meditation I was recently looking for a little something new to add to my self-care repertoire. I w...
April 29, 2014
Professional

We need older youth workers!

Youth work is an interesting profession. The vast majority of staff are under the age of 35. The average youth worker...
April 28, 2014
Research

Adolescent brains are awesome.

Adolescent brains I love TED talks! There is nothing quite as awesome as a snippet of bite sized informative goodness...
April 23, 2014
Future

Why young people need youth work more than ever.

Young people need youth work The past decade has been a time of immense struggle throughout the world. Mass killings,...
April 22, 2014
Professional

We must change our thoughts in youth work.

Perception. It is what causes many of the issues I see every day. It is also something that I have been thinking abou...
April 21, 2014