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Youth Work 2.0: A manifesto for the future.

We are on the brink of disaster! Our education of youth workers, lack of ongoing professional development opportuniti...

Bring a pen and paper!!!

A short one today! Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with a number of student youth workers help...
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Youth worker education: The time for change is nigh.

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

Youth work organisations shirk their responsibility

Organisations must care for their staff This morning I got to have breakfast with one of my amazing mates. Over the h...
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5 ways to develop youth work practice post-conference.

2013 is shaping up to be the year of the youth work conference! Here in Australia we are having our largest secular a...

Develop your own professional development plan.

Between the staff at Ultimate Youth Worker we have over fifty different jobs throughout the breadth of youth service ...

Read a book.

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

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...

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...

Behaviour not personality = Great youth work.

We have all heard the saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions“. No more have I seen t...