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Volunteer Youth Worker Podcast

Dec 17, 2018

You’ve committed to showing up consistently in the lives of students, but sometimes they don’t reciprocate. And while there are lots of reasons why one of your students might miss a couple times, when it turns into a pattern what should be our response? It can be confusing, discouraging, and frustrating to think...


Dec 10, 2018

When you invest consistently in the life of students it can be shocking how much they are willing to open up and share their struggles. Not only that, but the challenge becomes how best to respond when it comes to sensitive topics. The stats inform us that pornography affects nearly all of the students in our...


Dec 3, 2018

Have you had weeks where the ice breakers are falling flat and staying on topic just seems like a chore? You aren’t alone. Leading conversations with students can be extremely challenging, and although the list of suggested questions is helpful, some weeks they just aren’t cutting it. What are you supposed to do...


Nov 26, 2018

Whether it’s a student opening up about a toxic home life, an addiction, mental health, grief and loss, or some other significant issue, the question of dealing with students who are hurting is a question of when not if. And when a student shares about their hurt it can be difficult to know what our response is...


Nov 19, 2018

We know that students spend way more time at home than they do with us, but we wonder if that means we should be doing anything to reach out to their families. Should we spark a conversation with their parents? If we made time for that, what would we even say? The conversations at pick up or drop off can often be...