How To Plan A Youth Retreat Book
Since we launched Youth Workin’ It, many people have found our site by searching on Google for youth retreat ideas, youth retreat themes, etc. There seemed to be a large need out there for people planning a youth retreat, but there didn’t seem to be anything for them. We’ve therefore produced How To Plan A Youth [...]
Youth Worker Training
Shae has delivered training in the US, UK and Rwanda. She has a lot of experience with small and large group facilitation. Her public-speaking and group facilitation style is fun, interesting, practical and real. The training she delivers is practical and all the exercises and theory presented can be replicated with young people. She includes group [...]
Workplace Supervision
The What’s and What Not’s of Workplace Supervision: What it is: A safe place for encouraging the reflective practitioner inside A structured time to focus on areas of strength and development in your youth work practice, your program management and your wider organization A space for bouncing ideas, venting frustrations, exploring solutions and creating an [...]
The Youth Workin’ It Team
Shae Pepper, Managing Director & Professional Youth Worker and Stephen Pepper, Operations Director & Volunteer Youth Worker Read More
Ready, Aim, Starburst! – Youth Group Games
Image courtesy of cbcastro, Flickr Ready, Aim, Starburst! is a great youth group game because of its versatility – there are many different ways to play it based on how many young people you have participating. Here’s how to play it: Resources Large bag of Starburst candy Masking tape or sidewalk chalk Pen & paper (optional – to keep track of scores) Location Ready, Aim, Starburst! can be played both indoors and outdoors. To make it easier to prepare though, we’d...
Top 5 Youth Work Blog Posts Of The Week – May 18
Every week, we publish a list of blog posts and articles from around the world that relate to youth, youth work and youth ministry. Here’s this week’s top 5 list: 1. Ryan Reed: 5 questions you need to ask to build parent partnerships – Ryan’s post this week gives some ways to explore how you can work with parents to help enhance your youth work. 2. USA Today: Study: Teens who text and drive take even more risks – A study by the CDC has found that a worryingly...
Changes Coming To Youth Workin’ It
Today’s post is brought to you by David Bowie Yep, ch-ch-ch-ch-changes are afoot! What We’ve Done Since we launched the Youth Workin’ It blog in September 2011, we’ve Posted 6 days a week, every single week – more than 550 posts Written about 20 guest posts for other blogs Published two books Launched another site Added an extra member to our household Both worked full time jobs Shae’s also been running 3 Girl Scout troops totaling approx. 60...
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