From 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.