The stupidity of calling youth work science will limit our effectiveness!

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If I hear another person talk about the science behind youth work or the best-practice “research” that ha...

February 12, 2014

Thoughts on professionalisation Over the last couple of days I have been re-listening to some of my favourite podcast...

February 11, 2014

Today I was at the Annual General Meeting of the Youth Workers Association here in Victoria. It was a modest affair w...

November 21, 2013

Over the past weekend I spent some time reading about the professionalisation debate which has swept the global youth...

August 26, 2013

A while ago we wrote on what post-qualifying education might look like for the youth sector. We had a number of peopl...

June 11, 2013

I was having a conversation with a diploma student today that made the hair on the back of my kneck stand on edge. He...

May 28, 2013

Working with young people has led me to be in some dicey situations throughout my career. I have worked with young pe...

January 29, 2013

Today I am stoked to continue our series with a guest post from one of the worlds most well known youth wor...

December 11, 2012

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

November 6, 2012

Since our last post our Director of Operations has been fielding questions that usually started with ‘so you th...

August 8, 2012