Why are you a youth worker?

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This week sees the launch of National Youth Week here in Australia. It is about this time every year that I spend som...

April 2, 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

Our guest post is being published on drownthenoise.com today – it’s an open look at the idea of vocation in youth wor...

February 14, 2014

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

February 12, 2014

I have recently been reviewing the student placements of a number of youth work students. I have been speaking with t...

October 15, 2013

Many years ago after finishing my degree I asked one of my professors for some guidence with an piece of work I was d...

September 18, 2013

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

August 26, 2013

In my illustrious career I had the privilege of being a coordinator of a small local government youth service for the...

July 17, 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

Over the years I have had the pleasure of working with a number of young people who have had run ins with the justice...

June 4, 2013