Opinion

There is a balance to effective youth work

2 mins read Youth Work
During the last school holidays, I was challenged about my face-to-face work with young people.

On a particularly sunny day, I decided to walk to an appointment rather than take the car. My route took me past a local park and a couple of young lads called my name. They were regulars at the youth club and after a short conversation with them and their plans for the holidays, I moved on.

A minute later, I saw another young person walking the other way. I used to work with this individual and hadn't seen him around for some months. We got chatting and I learned about his attempts to find work and some job opportunities he had coming up. This led me to offer some help by writing a reference for him, and we arranged to meet up later in the week. As a consequence, I was late for my meeting.

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