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Do you have a code of ethics???

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

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...

What will youth work look like in 2013?

It is with great pleasure and a sad heart that we come to our final guest post in this series. We have heard from a n...

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 ...

What will youth work look like in 2013?

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Youth Justice: Restoration or Retribution?

We asked our followers recently what they would like us to talk about on the blog and one topic stood out as a major ...