Why youth workers need to take a holiday.

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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

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

From August 5-7 the team from Ultimate Youth Worker attended the Australian Youth Affairs Conference in Adelaide, Sou...

August 9, 2013

Over the past month my sleeping patterns have gone completely out the window. Sleep is one of the most important thin...

July 30, 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