Re: Why Bother Using the Web in Youth Work

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Slowly but surely, I am surrendering to the Google world. Our new Webmaster at NewWest.Net first set up a ’Google Docs’Â� domain for our company, which enables us to share documents such as Word files and spreadsheets. Since I’ve always been too ...... more

thanks - still working on it! That does remind me of how much it used to get on my nerves at local community meetings when some people used to refer to just about the whole youth on the estate as "my young people" (as in somehow all my responsibility) - it prematurely aged me (I was only 23 at the time!). It does stir up a much bigger debate though doesn’t it - wrestling between the demands of the local community to see provision at ’problem times’, and the de... more

I am in the early days of considering how this would work for us myself. There is always the issue that one worker will bring a set of skills to a position that will create a demand that the next worker cannot meet. I remember wondering what on earth I was going to do with the complete archery set that a previous worker had purchased and I had no opportunity to use! The same issue applies to online presence. The difficulty lies in encouraging workers to develop opportunities with young people f... more

Hi Mas Well......I just had to pop up and say something with what seems to be a bit of a swipe at youth workers! I think that there are a number of complex reasons why some centres don’t open on Friday nights and weekends - not completely that youth workers don’t want to work these hours. Many of my colleagues have worked hard throughout the summer, including on weekends running a number of residentials and work equally late and long hours during the rest of the year. (including... more

Was it the Pew study? There’s a release which has the info. related to bullying specifically here: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/527/cyber-bullying ... more