Developing a professional youth sector is harder than we first thought.

Posted on November 21, 2013May 26, 2020 by Aaron Garth

Today I was at the Annual General Meeting of the Youth Workers Association here in Victoria. It was a modest affair with about a dozen die hard youth workers attending of the over 400 members. The Association launched its objectives for the next three years and reading through it I pondered how the objectives would […]

Is youth work suffering the death of a thousand cuts?

Posted on August 26, 2013May 26, 2020 by Aaron Garth

Over the past weekend I spent some time reading about the professionalisation debate which has swept the global youth work fraternity. I read that as an industry it is required of us to become more professionalised in order to cement our place in the human services sector. I read that we must become more stringent on who […]