The (late) Breakfast Society - Latest Comments in What makes a good Paid Youth Worker?

Re: What makes a good Paid Youth Worker?

Jack & Jones — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:08:30 -0000

Great post

Re: What makes a good Paid Youth Worker?

anna — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:41:40 -0000

I am training to be a youth worker and love volunteering at the local outh group. I a intrested in emailing other youth workers and finding out more about what youth work entails. So if you would like to email me you can at annabone104@hotmail.com. any help would be a god send. thank you anna

Re: What makes a good Paid Youth Worker?

LindaH — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:09:01 -0000

This post had me just about cheering. It's many years since I was involved in Youth Work but I think the guidelines you suggest are spot on! Actually it made me realise perhaps things had not changed as much as I'd thought. I totally agree about the need for discipline, it's all about clear boundries and knowing that you need to stand firm while the young people test them. They actually need you to be a fixed point sometimes whilst all around them is chaos. You are not their friend - they have friends, they don't need another infinately less cool one! You are not their parent, they have those, don't need new ones (though sometimes you can't help thinking they might...!) It's a hard job but I did enjoy it all those years ago :-)