Do you suffer from “youth worker says yes” syndrome?

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Two years ago almost to the day I joined the board of an organisation. In that time I have served faithfully have onl...

October 16, 2013

I have recently been reviewing the student placements of a number of youth work students. I have been speaking with t...

October 15, 2013

My best friends think that I am absolutely nuts. How can I work day in and day out with people who almost ritualistic...

October 14, 2013

Promoting self care One of my best mates in youth work said to me today that he had been speaking to a bunch of peop...

October 8, 2013

I was recently speaking to an organisation who were going to fire a youth worker. They had a list of grievances a mil...

October 7, 2013

Today I was reflecting on my career and the major traumatic events that I have seen. I was speaking to a class of sch...

October 2, 2013

A couple of weeks ago our Executive Director had the privilege of speaking with Wolfgang Vachon of C2Y Podcast. In th...

September 26, 2013

Self care is an ethical requirement I have heard, over the past year or so, more excuses as to why youth workers can&...

September 24, 2013

Many years ago after finishing my degree I asked one of my professors for some guidence with an piece of work I was d...

September 18, 2013

This evening I sat in on a class preparing students for a masters degree placement in the human services. The topic f...

September 17, 2013