Tag Archives: challenges

We all need to be resilient

Posted on November 18, 2013 by

Last week I co-facilitated a session on resilience at the wonderful Creative Collisions conference. Way over 100 youth professionals and young people spent nearly 2 hours engaging with the subject, focussing on the following question: •    How can we increase … Continue reading →

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Youth Work in Schools, is it the way forward?

Posted on May 30, 2013 by

In the past there has been a tendency for people to pitch youth work and schooling against each other in an attempt to say one is better than the other, a way of thinking that quite frankly infuriates me. One … Continue reading →

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Young Adults & Resistance: Understanding the Need

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Children clearly let us know about their need to establish their identity as early as they enter the toddler years.  This is commonly a difficult time for parents, many of whom refer to this time-period by the well known label:  … Continue reading →

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A youth sector in crisis with significant challenges ahead

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

Greenwich Council has sub-contracted their universal youth provision to Charlton Athletic Football Club, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is moving towards a social enterprise model, the National Citizenship Service along with the Positive for Youth initiative is dominating the lion’s share of central government’s youth … Continue reading →

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