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Seven things a manager needs to know about internal supervision?

You should be doing internal supervision As a youth worker who managed staff one of the areas I spent a lot of my tim...

Leadership: Guest post drownthenoise.com

Leadership.  For an extremely long time now people have understood the importance of having good leaders.  This is em...

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 ...

Why are you a youth worker?

This week sees the launch of National Youth Week here in Australia. It is about this time every year that I spend som...

When your policy says nothing: Youth work practice wisdom

I have read more policy documents in the last month than I have read in the last two years. It has really hurt my hea...

Developing a professional youth sector is harder than we first thought.

Today I was at the Annual General Meeting of the Youth Workers Association here in Victoria. It was a modest affair w...

Vicarious trauma and youth workers: a recipe for disaster.

Today I was reflecting on my career and the major traumatic events that I have seen. I was speaking to a class of sch...

Why we need youth mentoring programs.

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

Is youth work suffering the death of a thousand cuts?

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

Change the future of youth work!!!

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