Youth Mental Health Resources
There are so many youth mental health resources… Where do you start when you need youth mental health resources? We get asked all the time where the best resources are. Well finally we have created a resource just for youth workers. All the resources here have been check and tested by our team. These youth […]
Podcast 014: Youth Work Ethics
To support the podcast, donate here Youth Work Ethics In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Youth Work Ethics’ Aaron speaks with Professor Howard Sercombe about his over two decade looking at and developing Youth Work Ethics documents. Howard Sercombe is a leading youth work academic and practitioner. He has been a pioneer internationally in thinking […]
Podcast 013: Youth Work and Power
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast Aaron speaks with Ben Lohmeyer from Tabor College of Higher Education about his research into youth work and power. Ben’s research interests include: youth, governance, violence (personal, structural and neoliberal) and youth work practice.
Youth work with a criminal record
Being open and honest about your criminal record and what you have done to restore your community standing is a really important step in gaining employment with a criminal record. It helps employers to understand you and to make informed decisions as to your suitability for employment.
Podcast 012: Youth Drug and Alcohol
To support the podcast, donate here! Podcast #012: Youth Drug and Alcohol In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast Aaron speaks with Dr. Kat Daley from RMIT University about her research into youth drug and alcohol abuse. Dr Kat Daley is a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. She […]
drug treatment and young people
Today the Australian Institute of Health and Wellbeing released their latest report, “Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2015–16”. This is the most up to date data on Alcohol and Other Drug treatment throughout Australia.
Blogs for youth workers you must read
Our must read blogs for youth workers Youth work is a strange beast. We aren’t great at tooting our own horn. Even worse at sharing what we do. So when people step into the gap and share their thoughts, dreams, aspirations, research and their passion it is a fantastic sight to see. There have been […]
Podcast 011: What do we mean by profession
To support the podcast, donate here! Podcast #011: What do we mean by profession In todays podcast Aaron brings you into some of his research from his Honours thesis. The question of what we mean when we say youth work should be a profession is one that rarely gets asked in the youth work literature. […]
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 is we don’t really know what we mean when we say we need to professionalise! What do we mean by professional youth work?
Key perspectives: Sociology
Key perspectives Sociologists analyse social phenomena at different levels and from different perspectives. Sociologists study everything from specific events (the micro level of analysis of small social patterns) to organisational and group structures (meso) to the “big picture” (the macro level of analysis of large social patterns). All developing into key perspectives. Over the past […]