The youth sector must promote self care

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Promoting self care One of my best mates in youth work said to me today that he had been speaking to a bunch of peop...

October 8, 2013

I was recently speaking to an organisation who were going to fire a youth worker. They had a list of grievances a mil...

October 7, 2013

Today I was reflecting on my career and the major traumatic events that I have seen. I was speaking to a class of sch...

October 2, 2013

A couple of weeks ago our Executive Director had the privilege of speaking with Wolfgang Vachon of C2Y Podcast. In th...

September 26, 2013

Self care is an ethical requirement I have heard, over the past year or so, more excuses as to why youth workers can&...

September 24, 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

This evening I sat in on a class preparing students for a masters degree placement in the human services. The topic f...

September 17, 2013

Tomorrow is R U OK day here in Australia. R U OK day is an initiative to help the general public support their friend...

September 11, 2013

In the height of this neoliberalist push towards managerialism we are finding that more managers seem to be looking o...

September 9, 2013

I was recently talking to a youth worker who hadn’t had a holiday in over five years. Aside from a couple of lo...

September 4, 2013