Youth Work Central brings together people, expertise, and opportunities for youth workers' continued professional development. It is offered as an on-line tool of Health Resources in Action’s BEST Initiative. Youth Work Central makes accessible the support and professional development opportunities that youth workers need in order to understand and work with young people. Creating and raising standards for youth work ultimately improves the quality of services for youth. This site serves as a forum for sharing ideas, a place to learn about approaches, strategies and research critical to youth work, and a source of information about upcoming events and opportunities.
Upcoming Events
May 7, 2012 to May 30, 2012
This four-session, 16-hour training introduces youth workers and teaching artists to ways to...
May 22, 2012
This eight-session, 32-hour training is based on the nationally recognized Advancing Youth...
News & Updates
Apr 12, 2012 --- A vital and long-time leader at Health Resources in Action, Laurie Jo Wallace, has been honored with the National Role Model in the Peer Program Field award from National Association of Peer Program Professionals (NAPPP).
Apr 12, 2012 --- Health Resources in Action was recently invited by a government agency in Singapore to conduct a weeklong training session for youth workers, its second such trip in three years.
Apr 4, 2012 --- In a classroom at UMASS Boston, Clark University professor Laurie Ross's workshop, "Dilemmas of Youth Work in Everyday Practice," had reached a high point. About 25 adults were turned toward one another in small groups analyzing case studies that illustrated conflicts they realized they had encountered in their own practice.
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