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Employment

Youth workers need employment

Recently, a member of the Ultimate Youth Worker community and I had a great time of discussion after a misunderstandi...

A five step guide to self care

Guide to self care In my experience, “self care” in the Youth Work industry can be used as a “buzz ...
Professional Youth Work

What do we mean by professional youth work?

There has been a lot of talk over the past few decades about the need for professional youth work. The big issue here...

ABCD and the youth work profession debate?

ABCD for Youth Work Much of 2016 was horrible for the profession of youth work. Our funding was cut… yet again,...
Youth work journey

future youth sector

Is this the future youth sector? There is a lot of talk in the youth sector which is splitting the camps into those w...
keep great youth workers

9 ways to keep great youth workers

How do you keep great youth workers? Youth work is one of the most difficult professions around. You tend to work wit...

We need to develop our youth work research base

Youth work research has come a long way over the past decade or so. We have gone from a profession that was grappling...

Youth work needs to rid itself of its inferiority complex.

Over the years no other issue in youth work has bugged me more than the discussions about how we need to become more ...

Youth workers: write, do or do both.

The most well known youth workers world wide are often one of two types of people. They are either the academics who ...

Be transparent!!!

I was watching an Australian political review program this evening and as I was watching I realised something much mo...