rabble.caNearly 600,000 people under 30 were unemployed at the end of 2025.
Youth unemployment is a warning sign we should not ignore. #workforce #youthworkers
https://rabble.ca/economy/youth-unemployment-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine/
Kōtare 
These are tough times for #YouthWorkers in NZ right now - I just had to cancel another training workshop due to low ticket sales (and we have one of the best, and most respected, trainers in the industry).
Due mostly to massive funding cuts across the charitable & non-profit sector organisations can't afford to invest in PD at the moment, and that means less-qualified staff, who feel less valued, and who we know from internal research are paid well below other sectors.
Every week, another charity providing critical social work with at-risk populations goes under - even while funding for prisons is increased.
It reminds me that, actually, we have *all* of the answers we need to solve social problems - and the people to do it - but we do not have the will.
For some, it seems, charities must eternally exist as part of a moral eco-system where poor & vulnerable people must also eternally exist, along with 'baddies' that do crime. "That's just the way the world is" they will say, smiling, as they dispense Weetbix and budgeting advice with a patronising smile.
It's all rubbish. We made this world, and we can choose to make it different. The people I work with daily show-up and change people's lives for the better. They get shit pay and no respect, but they do it anyway. They have hope for the young people they work with. They foster that hope in these rangatahi. It is infectious. It is crucial. And I wish we had that same hope and aspiration for our society as a whole.
As it stands we are most definitely not #Sorted.
Larry NeufeldYoung people are moving toward climate careers. Employers need to adapt or be left behind #ClimateAction #careers #working #youthworkers
https://drawdown.org/news/insights/employers-need-to-adapt
https://drawdown.org/news/insights/employers-need-to-adapt
Young people want climate careers. Employers need to adapt.
I have worked in the sustainability space for almost a decade. In that time, I have witnessed my parents struggle to tell their friends what their daughter does for work; my friends who work in tech smile and nod when I talk about climate policy; and strangers apologize to me for not recycling.
BarbaraYouth worker: 'I could easily have been one of those rioting'
Excellent piece. Our youth services are so important and budgets have never properly recovered since the austerity cuts.
These services provide vital support to young people in marginalised communities, benefiting them, their communities and society as a whole.
Relatively modest increases in funding can deliver really significant benefits in this area.
#DublinRiots #YouthWorkers
mozzriboCurrently doing the finishing touches of #4mStorytelling after 3 years of #development! In short, it's a visible thinking methodology developed for the #youth, #youthworkers, the #business & #ngo sector. It helps put ideas out of our minds, making sense & filling in the gaps. It has 4 modules, each for a different – yet connected – area:
1. Creative Expression
2. Media & Advocacy
3. Participation
4. Fundraising
I will go through each in a future thread.
