Mental health… Do you understand?

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Mental Health is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the Western world. Unfortunately, most youth work educati...

September 29, 2014

Over the past few years I have had the privilege of educating youth workers in a number of educational facilities thr...

July 21, 2014

Chaplains in schools One of the most contentious issues in youth work today is funding. We don’t have enough mo...

June 3, 2014

Adolescent brains I love TED talks! There is nothing quite as awesome as a snippet of bite sized informative goodness...

April 23, 2014

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

The argument levelled at youth work as a profession and youth workers in particular that gets my goat the most is tha...

February 4, 2014

I always hated journaling. When I was a young intern in my 20’s I absolutely hated Tuesday morning as...

January 13, 2014

I am currently developing curriculum for the diploma of youth work here in Australia. This curriculum is focused on y...

January 8, 2014

As a youth worker with over a decade in practice a number of qualifications and a private practice I have supported m...

January 7, 2014

Today I was speaking with a group of people from within the education and human services sector about working with yo...

December 3, 2013