Professional Support for Passionate Practitioners At Ultimate Youth Worker, we believe great supervision creates great practitioners. The Ultimate Supervision Service is designed to support youth and community workers to grow professionally, stay ethically grounded, and thrive in the challenging work they do every day. We provide supervision that is reflective, supportive, and practice-informed — helping […]
Are you looking for ways to develop your practice as a youth worker? Perhaps you are just after some professional development from some qualified youth workers. Perhaps you are here to become an Ultimate Youth Worker! In the resources section we provide you with some of the most up to date knowledge in a format […]
Hi there. I’m Aaron Garth, Executive Director of Ultimate Youth Worker. If you’re new to the world of youth work, you have been doing it for years or you just want to become better at working with young people, this page is for you! It contains all the information you need to get up to […]
The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast is the leading youth work podcast on the internet. Expert interviews, mini trainings, and intimate behind-the-scenes secrets from our team of expert youth workers… all tied together by our mission to make EVERYTHING you listen to as actionable as possible. We guarantee that you will find […]
Ultimate Youth Workers are Principled Passionate Professionals We use supervision and training to strategically support the best youth workers in the sector. LET’S TALK What does genuine care look like? We provide a bunch of services that help you to become ultimate youth workers CONSULTING Our consulting team have supported many organisations to build passionate […]
Leading Youth Work Training, Supervision and Consultancy in Australia You should know something about us: Ultimate Youth Worker exists for one reason: to strengthen the people who strengthen young people. We are a specialist training, supervision and consultancy organisation dedicated to building the capability, confidence and professionalism of the youth and community services workforce. Every […]
In the AYAC National Youth Work Snapshot 2013 a survey of youth workers showed that 8.4% of surveyed youth workers had never had a supervision session and around 51.7% receive it less than once every three months. As an industry that claims professional status this is appalling. It is no wonder that the sector in Australia […]
You should be doing internal supervision As a youth worker who managed staff one of the areas I spent a lot of my time doing was internal supervision sessions. I saw that my staff needed the opportunity to discuss cases in depth, gain professional skills and a framework for organisational administrative procedural work. These staff […]
Many of my clients over the years have been doomed by inaction. In many cases it has not been that they lack ability to continue education, stay out of jail, develop social relationships etc. It is that they lacked the self esteem to even try. They had heard for so long how useless they are […]
Over the years no other issue in youth work has bugged me more than the discussions about how we need to become more like other professions. For the most part it is a discussion about what we are not as youth workers. It says what we do not do. It says we are inferior to […]