Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast

Feb 08 2022 43 ep. 29 mins 32
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The Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast is a weekly podcast that gives you the ins and outs of youth work theory and practice to help you become more passionate, principled and professional. Hosted by veteran youth work practitioner and academic Aaron Garth you will hear practice wisdom and the latest theory.

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Podcast 043 Thinking Critically in Youth Work Part 2

Feb 08 2022 34 mins  
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part Two”, Aaron continues to speak with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals. Taking our conversation up to the next level we speak about the need for supervision to help youth workers become more critically r

Podcast 042: Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part 1

Feb 01 2022 37 mins  
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Thinking Critically About Youth Work: Part One”, Aaron speaks with Dr. Brian Belton about the need for youth workers to be critically reflective about who we are as professionals. Over the years we have had some really great deep web chats with Brian, but this is the first face-to-face!! I mean he lives in the UK and Aaro

Podcast 041 Listen to Engage

Jan 12 2022 23 mins  
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast, “Listen to Engage”, Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to listen respectfully to their young people. On of the keys to developing respectful engagement with our young people is the skill of listening to gain understanding of how they view their experiences.

Podcast 040: Supervision

Feb 10 2021 24 mins  
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast “Supervision” Aaron speaks to us about the need for youth workers to have good professional supervision. As an industry that claims professional status it is ludicrous that most of our members do not receive a minimum of monthly professional supervision.. Supervision In, the AYAC National Youth Work Snapshot 2013, a surve

Podcast 039 Why research must inform your practice

Feb 03 2021 27 mins  
In todays episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast "Why research must inform your practice" Aaron speaks to us about the need to use evidence based practice in our youth work. We look at the need for professionals to have a theory base in their industry which informs the way they practice.

Podcast 038 Planning your year ahead

Jan 15 2021 30 mins  
In todays podcast "Planning your year ahead" Aaron helps us to think about the areas we need to plan for our best year in 2021. We look at our personal and professional lives and set about planning eight areas to develop the best possible start to the year. Planning for your year ahead One of the most important steps we can take for our own development and to be able to prov

Podcast 037: 2021 Resolutions

Jan 06 2021 16 mins  
In todays podcast "2021 Resolutions" Aaron muses on the future of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast and all the other goodies that the team are putting together over the next year. We are so excited to see what this year has to unfold. After last year and the huge trial that 2020 was for so many people we believe that 2021 is going to be an awesome year in the youth sector and we

Podcast 036 Child Rights

Sep 17 2020 27 mins  
In this episode of the Ultimate youth Worker Podcast 'Child Rights' Aaron and Jessy give us some insight into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child and how youth workers can use the articles within it to sharpen their practice. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assem

Podcast 035: National Principles for Child Safe organisations

Sep 02 2020 39 mins  
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘National Principles for Child Safe Organisations’ Aaron gives us an overview of the ten principles and where they came from. As youth workers our sector has always championed the rights of the child however there hasn't been a standard that we all were required to meet. The National Principles are a guiding document for all

Podcast 034: Raise the age

Aug 16 2020 29 mins  
In this episode of the Ultimate Youth Worker Podcast ‘Raise the age’ Aaron speaks with Jessica Sanders from Jesuit Social Services 'Worth a Second Chance' project about how we can understand the legal issue of the age of criminal responsibility and how we might support the campaign to raise it from 10 years of age. Jess is an author, advocate and social worker from Melbourne