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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Funding cuts to youth related programs

Funding cuts In a funding coup which has not hit the youth sector like this before three national governments have co...
April 1, 2014
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Professional development for Youth Ministers about youth work.

We know that a significant number of our readers are youth ministers who are seeking to develop a deeper understandin...
March 19, 2014
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‘I was told I wouldn’t have time for reflective practice when I qualified as a social worker’

I recently came across this great article from Community Care in the UK through a post by the amazing Teenage Whisper...
March 17, 2014
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Ongoing professional development: Its all about your budget.

I have been in a number of agencies throughout my youth services career and only one of them had a written down budge...
February 25, 2014
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The stupidity of calling youth work science will limit our effectiveness!

If I hear another person talk about the science behind youth work or the best-practice “research” that ha...
February 12, 2014