All Editorial articles – Page 85
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IssuesCase Study: Adventure Plus
Launched in 1990. To provide the best adventure youth work for children and young people
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Faith at homeA story for home: Naaman’s Incredible Adventure
Here is a story for you to tell at home, perhaps at bedtime or as part of a God-time during your day. Enjoy doing the actions and sound effects together.
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Musical safe sex advice too cheeky for some
After the startling statistical graphic from @sparticus last week that showed the sheer number of UK abortions when compared to other deaths, this doesn’t really help.
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Advocacy
When unfair things happen to us we are quick to shout about it. This might be the toddler who is convinced their sibling has a bigger ice cream or the student who worked harder than their friend and received the same grade. What about the injustice that 200 million children are malnourished, even though there is enough food in the world for everyone? How quick are we to shout out about that? The Bible tells us to ‘speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves’ (Proverbs 31). With the rise of social media, we have great potential to raise our voices online and offline.
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IssuesFrom the Horse’s Mouth: Why Advocacy Matters
I love youth work: I love doing it, talking about it, thinking about it, discussing it and coming to new conclusions or innovative new ideas. I’ve been doing it for over a decade and I’m pretty sure it’s one of the best vocations around. However sometimes I wonder if we’ve built ‘youth work’ up into such a living breathing phenomena of its own that we forget that it is simply ‘working with young people’. Not ‘at’, not ‘to’, but ‘with’ and ‘for’ young people.
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IssuesA family affair
I got an urgent call from a teenage girl who had locked herself in the toilets at KFC. Life had got too much and an increasingly toxic relationship she was caught up in had taken a desperate turn for the worse. We hadn’t talked in over a year, but that day she called me to come and find her.
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IssuesIs over-sexualisation affecting young people?
Do young people know more about the kind of sex we don’t want them to have than they know about the kind of sex we do want them to have?
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IssuesChildren’s laureate backs study indicating that malnutrition affects literacy
Julia Donaldson, author of children’s bestseller The Gruffalo has spoken out on a Save the Children report showing that malnutrition causes children to struggle in learning to read and write.
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BlogMission work isn’t just in Africa
When the words ‘mission’ or ‘missionary’ are mentioned, our minds can immediately fill up with images of young people and adults travelling to Africa and taking endless pictures of themselves with orphans, showing off their sunburnt shoulders and strap marks. But is this really what mission is about? Youthwork’s work experience student Sanna Hubbard explains what mission can look like for young people, here in the UK.
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Ask.fm changes policy AFTER teen suicide
Social media website Ask.fm has changed its safety policy following the suicide of Hannah Smith.
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BlogSix roles you could apply for after your time in youth work
Your CV or job title might read youth worker, but as we all know, being a youth worker incorporates the skills and talents of many other professions. We've put together a list of alternative career paths, just in case one day you decide to something different
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IssuesLife After School
The world of the school leaver has never been more daunting – whichever route they choose to take. HTB’s director of Student Alpha Jamie Haith and Frontier Youth Trust’s Alastair Jones both offer five ways to support young people as they leave, either for university life, employment or – more pertinently right now – straight into unemployment.
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IssuesWelsh Cathedral hosts road show to end legalized violence against children
Brecon Cathedral has joined forces with Welsh children’s societies to launch the ‘Children are Unbeatable!’ campaign to end legalised violence against children.
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BlogDead Book Society: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
New things are great, but old things can be great too. Youth worker Mark Walley is really keen on books written by dead people (people who are now dead, not who were dead at time of writing), and the youth work wisdom we can glean from them. So each month he will review an old book, and explain why it’s worth your precious time. The only qualification? That the author be deader than CS Lewis. This month’s book: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, by Thomas Brooks.
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IssuesTrying to bring change in your children’s ministry (or ‘The ballad of repeatedly banging your head against a wall’)
National adviser for children and youth for the Church of England Mary Hawes faces the same problem many of us do: no matter how inspired, equipped and envisioned she feels, trying to bring about change in her home church is a painful process. Fortunately, she’s got some ideas to help…
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IssuesAll Age Service: Talking Jericho
A service plan looking at the Israelites’ continuing adventure.
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IssuesAll Age Service: Jesus meets a Samaritan woman
A service plan about worshipping in spirit and truth
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IssuesRaise the age of consent, say British teenagers
A poll for the National Children’s Bureau has revealed that more young people would raise the age of consent than lower it. The research, consisting of over 2,700 interviews with schoolchildren aged 11-16, showed that 22 per cent believed that the age of consent should be higher, with only 16 per cent saying it should be lowered.
