Awesome! What is Youth Work? Before we discuss how you can become a youth worker, we need to discuss what actually is a youth worker. A lot of people work with young people (e.g., teachers, juvenile detention officers, GPs, counsellors), but not all of those people are youth workers. There is a lot of diversity internationally regarding …
Youth work: what & why
Do you have a passion for young people? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of young people? Do you want to see young people transformed? Do you have a passion to see young people empowered to have a voice, and be able to take charge of their lives? Do you have …
Taking youth ministry to the streets
A few months ago, I wrote an article on how the Youth Work WA code of ethics can help create a safe ministry. (You can find that article here). The cross-over between youth ministry and professional youth work is something I am keenly interested in and passionate about. Traditionally, youth ministries are interested in conversions of …
Spirituality in Youth Work?
In 2010, when I completed my Youth Work degree, I left university feeling as though faith had no place in youth work. I remember feeling deflated, as though I had to ‘take off’ part of myself in order to be a youth worker. When many people hear the word ‘spirituality’ or ‘spiritual’, it conjures up …
Australia Day – what’s all the fuss about?
It’s an issue that seems is being raised every January with more frequency and more discussion in latest years than ever before. Should we change the date or not? What’s all the fuss about? In 1994, January 26 became an Australia-wide public holiday (Marlow, 2016; Fozdar and Spittles, 2015). January 26 was chosen as the …
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Creating a safe youth ministry
How helpful would the Youth Work WA Ethics be in a Youth Ministry setting? The Issue In 2017, the Royal Commission into child abuse in institutions highlighted the sad fact that many children have been abused within churches and other institutions. While some news articles on the Commission made it seem like it was only …
‘which one of youse want to fight?’ – Youth and violent ways of being
Mia told me about her first time in juvenile detention and defending her friend…
“…all of the girls picking on her. Every single girl picking on her because, I don’t know, she just kept to herself… And so, they just started telling stories. And as soon as I got in there, and I went to her they just started telling stories about me. So, I didn’t like that, so I went up to them all, all twelve of them, went up to them and was just ‘which one of youse want to fight?’ You know? And out of all of them not one of them stepped up. So ever since then the girls would never run me down in there but.”
Mia’s story sounds like what we might expect juvenile detention is like.Mia has many personal “risk factors”, but Mia’s story isn’t what it seems. Close listening to her story…
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Black lives matter – in Australia too.
by Tim Mullen In this article: I’ve been on a journey of discovery about the importance of Black Lives MatterAboriginal people are severely disadvantaged and oppressed in many ways in AustraliaDeep listening is the answer Recently, media and social media have been flooded with discussions of the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA. When …
Youth Work in an isolated era
It is no exaggeration to say that our world has been changed by COVID-19. We have seen the way we work, shop, socialise, exercise, study, and more, change dramatically. This is no different for mental health services, youth groups and youth services. Many services have had to completely change the way they operate, some have had to …
New Podcast about Young People
A new podcast featuring a series of conversation about youth-related topics has been release by Dr Ben Lohmeyer - Head of Youth Work at Tabor. If you work with or study young people you might find some of these conversations interesting, enjoyable and encouraging. https://open.spotify.com/show/4KV1S1gXpb1kX6QxymD84n
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