CYP Now - The National Youth Agency: Youth Work Week to focus on resilience

The theme for Youth Work Week 2009 focuses on two key qualities that youth workers have always helped impart, and which young people need in spades now and in the near future.

These are:

- Resilience - able to bounce back from life's disappointments and setbacks and to carry on in pursuit of your aspirations; and

- resourcefulness - possessing the ability to dig deep inside yourself and in the environment you are in to find and use resources that help you respond to life's opportunities and risks.

The National Youth Agency invites youth work bodies to use the theme to celebrate the ways in which they help young people deal with the difficulties life can place in their way and carry on to enjoy their lives and meet their potential.

Jon Boagey, The NYA's director of communications, said: "Youth Work Week is used by a wide variety of youth organisations to celebrate the work they do. Groups are free to use the week however they want, but we hope this theme may provide a focus for the distinctive contribution of youth work."

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