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Dealing with the down time: Youth worker patience.

If you are in anyway like me you spend most of your working days going flat out. You run from meeting to meeting, to ...

We need to measure everything: youth work is changing and so must we.

Over the past year we have attended a number of conferences and seminars throughout Australia on the awesome practice...

We need to develop the future potential of the youth work sector.

In a month I will be speaking at a conference in my nations capital city about the need for self care in our sector. ...

Do you suffer from “youth worker says yes” syndrome?

Two years ago almost to the day I joined the board of an organisation. In that time I have served faithfully have onl...

Calendar management for the youth work professional.

Here is a little something that doesn’t get taught in school but will change your way of working forever. I was...

The need to network: Collaboration for effective youthwork.

Its National Youth Week here in Australia and we are ramping things up at Ultimate Youth Worker. This week Our Direct...

Why youth worker’s need to embrace technology for professional development

Are we falling behind??? Are we becoming as obsolete as the home phone, the floppy disk or the hand held calcula...

Observe the I in DISC for youth worker’s

Last Thursday we began a looking at the individual quadrants within the DISC behavioural profiling system with &#8220...

Behavioural observation is the key to best practice youth work.

A few weeks ago we stated that we would look at how to develop a behavioural lensto inform how you work with young pe...

Build your youth work network

One of the main differences between a good youth worker and a great youth worker is their ability to get things done ...