Youth Work: Key Players, Interests, Intentions, and Practices

This article discusses the key players involved in defining youth work, their interests, intentions, and practices. It also explores the importance of youth work in society and how youth workers define their work. The article emphasizes the need for promoting equality and justice for all young people and maintaining confidentiality of personal information. It concludes by highlighting the essential role of youth workers in helping young people deal with the pressures of life.

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Youth Work
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In the modern day scenario, the youth work is one of the most important parts of the
society. It is the responsibility if the youth generation of people to come forward and take up
their responsibility. This is because they are the ones who have to bring to limelight their
innovative ideas and work for the overall welfare of the society. There are many faults and errors
within the existing system of the society. Some it is the youth who has to come forward and
work for the eradication of the same. It is for this reason that there are many institutes and
training centers in the modern day scenario that are helping for teaching and developing the
institutes of the youth workers(Banks 2014). There are many associations working in many
different parts of the world to help and support the needs of the young people. There are also
many young works association in Australia who constantly work for the overall welfare of the
young people by supporting their needs (Alldred 2017).
Who are the key players involved in defining youth work, and how do they describe youth
work?
There are many and varied kinds of workers who can act as a youth worker. The key role
payers who can identify this talent are mainly the caches or the people from the youth training
centers and the different universities. It can also happen that the parents of the young children
become the identifier of the youth workers when they seek for any moral assistance for their
children often the young adults and particularly the teenagers are quite frustrated in life and they
are looking for some help or someone to support and guide them (Lardier et al. 2018). Often the
parents or other adults of the family are not the right persons for helping them in this situation
(Ord 2016). In such cases, there are many youth workers who can come and help during this kind
of situations. There are people who can develop in some friendly conversations with these young

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teens and can give them a good counseling so that they do not try taking any harmful or serious
steps like suicides (Feldman et al. 2018).
Youth workers are normal people of the society with some innovative and good ideas.
They want to help the young people by keeping their interests in the first place. They define their
works as a set of practice that helps in putting the goals and the interests of people in the first
place. They do not really believe in dominating the young person but they believe in making the
desired changes through active participation and help. They believe in working side by side with
the young person who is in question. They believe in using their own knowledge to stay side by
side with the young person in context and also empower them (Cooper et al. 2015).
• What are their interests? (why do they want to get their account of youth work accepted?)
They have many and varied interests. Their main purpose is to help the young person in
question to develop a clear and proper insight (Furlong, 2016). They help in promoting equality
and freedom among people. They want their work to be accepted because they realize the pain
and the sufferings of so many young people within the society. They are very much aware of the
stereotypes that are existing in the society and they want to challenge them and eradicate them
from the root level. One good example can be the coaches of the sports for young children
(Youth Action 2018). It is the duty of each and every coach to make sure that they are
encouraging the young children to play and prosper in their respective games. Often it can so
happen that the children are not able to live up to the expectation and they fail in the sports. It is
at this point of time that the young players get demotivated and demoralized. They feel that they
are falling back and they are often not supported by their families as well. It is at this point of

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time that might take some very serious steps. This point of time the role of the youth worker
(who is the coach in this context) has to pat their backs and encourage a great deal. They have to
encourage them with a smile on their face or any of their head or a little handshake. This will
make the young children realize that there is someone who is supporting them and there is
always time to work and come back even stronger (Wood et al. 2014). The youth workers want
to imbibe this resilience factor among the young person (the young sports players in this context)
for their better, sorted and independent future. Same is the case with the youth who can help
during the time of bullying. The youth workers can set up many campaigns and many training
centers that will help in explaining the entire concept of bullying and will also talk about the
after-effects of the same. The youth workers can contribute to this campaign by talking about
their experience of getting bullied during their young age. They can also conduct many bullying
sessions where they can counsel the victims of bullying and can make them fight with this
situation in a proper way. It is for all these reasons that the young people get a kind of
empowerment and a sense of equality and justice. These are several reasons that makes the youth
workers want their works to get accepted by the people and the society (Sanders et al. 2015).
Some of the interest or the main motifs of these youth workers are-
Treating the young person as the primary client-the young person in need is free to get involved
in this. There must be no compulsion or any kinds of harms on them.
Confidentiality- They maintains a strict security over the information that is shared by the clients
or the young people. They will be informed in detail regarding any disclosure of the information
about the young people in question.

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Promotes equality- The youth workers want to promote equal rights and justice for all the people
irrespective of their age, religion, social status, class and other such aspects.
• How do they describe their intentions, and how do others?
They describe their intentions through their works. They take part in many social,
interactive and one to one sessions where they will be able to talk with many of the young people
who are actually in need of proper assistance. The job that they perform is not a normal none to
five kind of a job. They have different kinds of plans and works that are scheduled for them in
them. They have to decide the kinds of organizations in particular like an after school, caregiver
or child counselor, coach for young children sports or many other such professions (Studies
2018). They have to make sure that people are much aware about the kinds of services that are
being rendered by these youth workers. They can use the social media is one of their most
important means of communication and publication. It is through this that they are able to make
sure that the society knows about the functions that they are performing. They can capture some
of the videos or clippings of the works that are being performed by them. Many of the young
people particularly the teens are very active on the social media. They do not find any other
outlet to express their stress and their frustrations, so they often post about them on social media
or maybe in the form of any blog or other such articles. They have to carry on an extensive
survey and research regarding all the issues both past and present that may affect the well being
of so many young people. They want their work and their services to get accepted within the
society because they know that they can change the style of living of the young people by many

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ways. They can get in touch with so many young people through the social media where they can
talk about their therapies and their sessions that will help them solve all their problems. They can
use the briefings of their works and the snapshots of the works that are performed by them. They
can use any headlines or any kinds of portals called the face the facts and can also flash about
their works on the daily website news, the monthly newsletters and their mediums. Others are
happy in getting the service from these people because getting proper support in such a tender
young age is really very important (Davies 2015). The parents are often very worried when they
see tendencies like suicidal activities, extreme quietness, tension, frustration etc. They are happy
to get assistance from the youth workers. However often there are negative features as well that
the youth workers face from the others. This is because many of the family members are often
hesitant in taking help from the youth workers. Often the results that are achieved are also not up
to the mark. The time management also often becomes a major concern. Often the youth workers
are not able to have enough time to the young person. The person feels neglected and the results
achieved are not up t the mark.
• Whose accounts of youth work do not get heard (explain why they don’t)
There are also instances where the works performed by many people do not actually get
heard or notified in the context of the youth works. Often there are people who are actually
taking part in youth works like charity events at local places, helping the poor and the needy like
raising funds for funding the young people suffering from drugs or other kinds of addictions.

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There are teachers who can act as counselors and give the students a good counseling regarding
the different kinds of problems that they face. There can be a normal resident of the locality who
is a college student or a part-time worker in his free time he may be able to go in a one to one
session with the young people of residents who are in problem. His often happens because they
do not have any degrees from any well-known universities that teach youth work. However,
people must look into the ways and the motives with which they are trying to help the young
generation of people.

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Practice- Listening to the opinion of young people, make them
work together and take part in many different activities and
develop reduce all inequalities
Principles- Make the young people proactively participate in many activities,
where they can interact with each other and also learn from at the same time.
Values- Having a collaborative and cooperative approach so that they can involve
all the young people together. They work for many anti-oppressive approaches and
preserving human rights.
Enabling young people to
carry on the process of
knowledge sharing and
develop one another.
This project can include a chart as well as written text, it must none-the-less be informed
by the relevant literature.
The main purpose of the youth workers is to make sure that they are involving the young
people in all the collaborative and group activities. This will help them develop a free and
collaborative approach with one another (Rambaree et al. 2017).
Figure1: Professional Youth Work practice

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Synthesis and description of concepts and practices of Youth Work (12 marks)
youth work principle and ethical practice
This allows the young people to decide with full liberty and freedom regarding whether
to get involved in this programme or not. There will be no compulsion being made. The settings
of conducting this programme will also be in a very welcoming place. One of its most prominent
practices is that it is anti-oppressive in nature. In other words, it mainly aims at promoting the
overall welfare of all the young people. They are respectful towards each and every young
people belonging to a different class, religion, and caste. They make sure that they are not
showing any kinds if disrespect towards any of the young people. This creates a very big
negative impact on the minds of the young people. The other important concept and practice of
youth work is the fact that they know how to maintain the privacy if the information that is
shared with them (Theron et al. 2015). They never tamper with that information or even keep
any unnecessary information like any kinds of recordings about it. The other important practice
that is core to their activities is developing accountability among the society. They try to involve
all the other members of the community to encourage and involve people in taking up more and
more youth works. They must constantly take feedback from the young people whom they are
trying to support through their works. Finding out proper information and establishing many
kinds of practice that will help in developing the well being and the development of the young
people.
So, it can be concluded that the youth workers are really doing a great job and are highly
essential for helping the young people to deal with all the pressures of their life. The youth
workers make sure to maintain all the relevant ethics that are responsible for providing total
security to the personal information of the young people. They help in promoting equality and

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justice for all the young people of society who are fighting with many kinds of problems like
stress and frustrations of all sorts.

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