I decided to make today my last post. While Youth Work Week continues until Sunday, my working week has now finished. This particular week because I did 3 long days I'm not in today though I've sat down finally after a hectic day catching up on housework, and preparing for rainbows and I still find myself looking through volunteer roles and staffing over the next week as well as looking closely at my diary to work out next week's hours.
While I have enjoyed blogging this week there are so many more aspects of our job. We manage buildings, budgets, staff, targeted projects in schools, and then in the evenings we run open sessions in buildings or we do street based work in places like parks and areas that may sometimes have Anti Social Behaviour, working with groups to discuss issues like sexual health drugs and alcohol and also trying to help them be more involved in their communities whether thats decision making or finding something for them to do. My young people are also keen fundraisers and enjoy putting on events for the community.
It's the variety in the work that I find the most interesting, from the fun parties and trips to the times when you are genuinely helping young people with anger management, sexual health advice and more often than not helping shape their future selves.
I would appreciate it if for today's post, you guys who are reading this! If you have ever had been worked with my Youth Workers whether paid or volunteers, I would love to see a comment about what you feel they did for you.
and if you would like to read more about what youth work is see the NYA and also this infed article gives a bit of info about the role.
Thanks again everyone for reading!
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