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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...
Celebrate

Become more than you are right now: A youth work specialist

As a parent I want to see my children have more opportunities than I did as a child. I want to see them bec...

What will youth work look like in 2013? The finale.

Its been a month and a half in the making but we are finally there. The finale of our series looking at the next twel...

Survival plan for the stressed youth worker.

Over the years I have become a keen survivalist. Not the crazy people with guns coming out their wazoo that you ...

Read a book.

Ongoing Professional Development is one of the foundation pillars which underpin the Ultimate Youth Worker. However, ...

Deep engagement in youth work

All too often in youth work we are forced to commit ourselves to shallow engagements with young people. Whether becau...

Observe the C in DISC for youth worker’s

Over the last five weeks we have looked into the best tool we know of to help people build relationships with people ...

Accountability through ongoing learning

Throughout my career I have met hundreds if not thousands of youth workers with varying levels of expertise, varying ...

Observe the S in DISC for youth worker’s

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at the DISC behavioural profile and its use for youth worker’s in ...

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...