Keeping motivation in youth work

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Life is tough, and so is youth work. Keeping motivation can be difficult. From the outside most people only see the c...

June 8, 2016

Women are amazing! Let me just state that from the beginning. I am in awe of so many women in my life. Women I love, ...

March 8, 2016

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

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

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

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

In our work we come across some of the most awesome youth workers in the service. They absolutely love their work. Th...

April 14, 2014