So roughly 3 years ago for national youth work week I decided to do a blog chronicling a day in the life of a Youth Worker.
It was interested to look over those thoughts this week particularly with this years Youth Work week theme of 'Today and Tomorrow'.
In 2014 our service had undergone a restructure, I had more responsibility managing 2 youth centres and 18 members of staff and we became on open access service... 3 years later though and we are now a targeted provision working as part of the early help agenda.
I still manage 2 centres but they aren't youth clubs (they stopped being youth clubs when the leader of the Council went of nationally TV and announced the closure of all our centres.)
I see my job as wearing 3 different hats;
The first is a case worker doing one to ones with young people who could have a range of needs from problems at home, ASB, anger management, anxiety, low self esteem.
The second is a group work leader working in schools or with pupils during school time. Usually groups may be again looking at anger management (I know not everyone likes that term), stress management, environmental work with young people who otherwise struggle in school.
The third role is similar to the traditional Youth Worker. While we make an effort to target those who most need our service, we never turn a young person away who needs support (unless they trash the building, that usually gets them banned at least for a while!)
So... the question is how different is an average day now compared to 3 years ago!??!
Well keep reading this week!!
Monday 6th November
Tuesday 7th November
Wednesday 8th November
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th November
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