Are youth workers prepared for bereavement?
By Howard Williamson
Children & Young People Now
25 June 2008
As we read almost weekly of the death of another young person through violent crime, it is perhaps easy to forget that young people die, albeit fairly rarely, from a range of causes. When those young people have been associated with youth work projects, the immediate question is what can, or should, youth workers do?
Youth workers have to consider a range of dimensions to any response. They may have to address the circumstances of a young person dying. In my own experience, the main causes were road traffic accidents and the consequences of substance misuse, though there were also...