Our Professional Development Framework
Our Professional Development Framework provides a structured framework for ongoing workforce development within the youth work sector.
Article Review: Michael Emslie’s “Toward a Youth Work Profession”
For decades, youth workers across Australia and beyond have asked an important question: Is youth work a profession? In his seminal 2013 article, “Toward a Youth Work Profession”, academic and practitioner Michael Emslie argues that the answer is yes—if we’re willing to do the work from within the sector. Emslie explores the idea that professionalization […]
Podcast 043: Thinking Critically About Youth Work – Part 2
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part Two”, Aaron continues to speak with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals.
Podcast 042: Thinking Critically About Youth Work
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part One”, Aaron speaks with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals.
Over the years we have had some really great deep web chats with Brian, but this is the first face-to-face!! I mean he lives in the UK and Aaron is here in Australia! Critically thinking about youth work is something that both Brian and Aaron are very passionate about and we hope these two podcast sessions help you to re-think what you thought you knew about youth work.
Work with the Young Person as the Focus
One of the areas of knowledge and skills that a youth worker must hold is to “work with the young person as the focus”.
Podcast 041: Listen to Engage
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Listen to Engage”, Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to listen respectfully to their young people. On of the keys to developing respectful engagement with our young people is the skill of listening to gain understanding of how they view their experiences.
Podcast 030: Self Care in Youth Work
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Self Care in Youth Work’ Aaron chats with Ex-Student Panel about self care in youth work. How do youth work practitioners leave work at work? Do relationships, boundaries and practices change when we engage in self care? What supports do youth workers need to be effective at self care? What happens when things go pear shaped?
Podcast 029: Debriefing after an incident
Critical Incident Debrief In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Online Youth Work’ Aaron chats with us about how to conduct a critical incident debrief. We look at two models and unpack how individuals and teams can best use the debriefing process to look after themselves and reflect on the best ways forward. […]
Podcast 024: Positive T-Shirts
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast Aaron speaks with Neil about his journey to founding Positive T-Shirts.
Podcast 022: Is your workplace ChildSafe?
We take our commitment to child safety very seriously at Ultimate Youth Worker and have used many of the resources from ChildSafe to help us in making our commitment tangible.