Great tools for youth workers: Use an Ecomap.

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One of the most used tools I have in my kit is an Ecomap. An Ecomap is a graphical representation of the systems at w...

August 28, 2013

Recently in my state many of the youth mentoring programs have had to come to terms with losing their funding. This h...

August 27, 2013

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

August 26, 2013

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

August 20, 2013

A number of years ago I was speaking to some colleagues about our concern that youth work as a profession was losing ...

August 19, 2013

I was speaking to some of my students recently about their time in the courses I teach in. Many of the student said t...

July 29, 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

Over the past few months I have spoken with over a dozen youth work educators from throughout the world about the&nbs...

July 16, 2013

Over the years I have been asked hundreds of times about how to set boundaries in youth work. I have spoken to this i...

July 11, 2013

A little over twelve months ago I was part of a small group of youth workers at their wits end with how the yout...

June 24, 2013