Resources
Links
What is Youth Work?
In order to have a clear definition of youth work and its place in the youth (services) sector, YANQ facilitated a 12 months sector/state-wide discussion and debate – leading to creation of a working definition of what Youth Work and what Murri Youth Work are.
The Spiral Model of
Community Education
Rooted in the real interests and struggles of ordinary people; overtly political and
critical of the status quo; and committed to progressive social and political change.
Communicating Youth Work
Chapter 10 in Jeremy Brent's book 'Searching for Community' reproduced in YANQ's Network Noise, pages 22-23, is a great example of how youth work practice can be articulated. We strongly encourage you to obtain and read the whole book.
Healing Centered Engagement
Dr Shawn Ginwright presentation on Healing Centered Engagement -therapeutic vs social/ecological models of trauma
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Hope & Healing
Youth Sector Research
Critical Youth Wok -
Theory and Practic
Queensland trauma-informed framework for foster care and residential care has been developed and delivered by PeakCare. The e-learning training has been developed to capture the in-depth research by specialists in the field. The training is also linked to the Queensland Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs mandatory requirement of training for approved Foster Carers.
As the peak body for the youth sector in Queensland, YANQ has been undertaking research into various issues which impact on young people and the youth sector. You can access published documents going back to 1991 via the link below.
On Wednesday 6th September 2023 Jen Kaighin facilitated a discussion exploring the links between critical youth work theories and critical practice. The first part of this webinar was lecture based, i.e. a PowerPoint followed by a discussion about practice, and how to enact critical practice in neoliberal (less than critical) youth work spaces. Jen is currently a lecturer in social work and human services at QUT, prior to joining QUT Jen was a youth work practitioner focused mainly on youth housing and homelessness.
Youth Work &
Community Development
On 20th September 2023, Dr Peter Westoby, a long term CD practitioner, analyst and scholar, facilitated a dialogue on what CD is, and what it might contribute to effective and ethical youth work.