Learning from the Streets

Agreed.

It may be out of necessity than choice in a Covid-19 infected world.

But there is no doubt about it, there has been a steep rise in youth workers, projects, agencies and church groups beginning detached youthwork in the UK and world in the last 6 months (depending on the lockdown guidelines per country)

Yet well done!

Well done for not waiting for young people, well done for being prepared to go out and meet young people, to be vulnerable and amongst young people at this time. Good for you. Seriously.

As a help to you, I thought I put some links on this post to help you as you re-start doing detached, or start from scratch, so if you want to read and reflect a bit – then do click the pieces, or you can search this site for any detached youthwork articles too.

Some of the benefits to doing detached youthwork are here: Advantages to starting detached   im so convinced, I clearly wrote the same piece twice a few years apart…(here’s the other one)

Why young people might prefer to meet youthworkers on the street is in this piece, and their ideal qualities are here

Heres my A to Z on detached youthwork

Reflecting on ‘the street’ as a space to be a youth worker is in this piece

a piece on developing Theology on the street is here, for any faith based workers

Thinking about developing conversations with young people is in this piece  and this one   – on the streets its about cold contact, and this piece might be good to reflect on

A piece on what its like being a detached worker is here – 35 ways you just know you are one….

What makes for a successful session on detached youthwork – is at the link

So there’s a few links to some of the pieces ive written on detached that might help you, as you begin detached youthwork, or restart it

If you would like further resources, I have them listed on this page   – there are links to the Federation of detached youthwork, FYT, and many useful other websites and books that could help you.  These links are also on the right of this page, and the Federation are posting information regularly on guidelines. The NYA is regularly updating information on Covid-19 too, and their page is on the links to the right.

If you would like some training to help, then I am taking requests for this, and can facilitate via zoom, as can a number of other people. Do contact me here for details

I hope that some of this is helpful for you as you start, do be in contact if I can be of further help to you.