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You can read a thousand papers about young people.
Or you can sit with one! Over the years, as both a mum and a youth worker, I’ve read a lot about young people. Studies…Academic papers…Frameworks…Labels for everything. Sometimes it feels like there’s a whole industry built around analysing young people. Some of it is useful, I’m sure! But after years of actually sitting with…
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What Youth Work Has Taught Me
When some humans hear “youth work”, they often imagine crisis. Trouble. Chaos. Something heavy or a bit scary. Sure, there are parts of it that are hard! But at its core, youth work is surprisingly simple. After all the courses. The frameworks. The action plans with very official names. This is what I’ve learned: Humans…
