Webinar - Boundaries of Youth Work

The Boundaries of Youth Work webinar was organised in the framework of the 🧭 MOOC on youth work essentials organised by the 🇪🇺 EU-Council of Europe youth partnership.

💭 Youth work does not exist in a vacuum and is not alone in being concerned with young people. It is related to other fields – social work, formal education, justice, health care, policy development and implementation, advocacy, research, etc. Youth work is a cross-sectoral practice: it is often seen as playing an important bridge-building role to other services and fields for young people, such as employment, education or health care. All these services have an impact on the lives of young people, and youth work can enhance their effectiveness.

Guest speakers:
👉 Maria Pisani PhD is a Maltese academic, youth worker and activist. She is the co-founder and director of Integra Foundation, and a lecturer with the department of Youth and Community Studies, University of Malta. Maria has published in international journals and contributed to edited texts. Her research interests include forced migration with a special focus on youth, intersectionalities, 'race' and colonialism, national identity and citizenship. She combined this work with her interest in critical pedagogy and engaging praxis as a project of social transformation towards social justice.

👉 Susan Cooper is an associate professor in youth work, she leads the undergraduate and postgraduate youth and community courses at Plymouth Marjon University in England. She qualified as a Youth and Community Worker at Westhill College, Birmingham in 1992 and held a range of posts in the voluntary and the statutory sectors and has worked in both urban and rural environments. She has experience of centre-based work, crime diversion project work, detached work, information and advice work and alternative curriculum work delivered in a pupil referral unit. She has published several articles and book chapters on youth work and is the author of the book: Participatory Evaluation in Youth and Community Work.