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    Children's Mental Health Week: What can we do next?

    2021-02-02T00:00:00Z

    This Children’s Mental Health Week, we want to equip you to help young people and children who may be struggling with their emotional & mental wellbeing. Joel Harris from mental health charity Kintsugi Hope, commends the efforts of us youth and children’s workers at raising awareness for the issue, but asks: what can we do next? Keep reading to find out his top tips. 

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    Be kind: helping young people deal with difficult emotions

    2021-02-01T00:00:00Z

    This Children’s Mental Health Week, we want to equip you to help young people and children who may be struggling with their emotional & mental wellbeing. Rachael Newham from mental health charity ThinkTwice explains why kindness is the most important factor in helping children to deal with their mental health. 

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    How God’s love for the world can impact your group

    2021-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Helping our children and young people to follow Jesus includes sharing his concern for justice in the world. Dot Tyler reminds us that it’s time to sharpen our vision and get involved – yes, even during lockdown.

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    4 part series on Moses

    2021-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are children, youth and all age resources - all ready to use!

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    Mental Health: You can make a difference

    2021-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Finding a child or youth is battling with their mental health can be the hardest part of youth and children’s work. Surveys tell us this is all too common, NHS chaplain and youth worker, Andrew Bennett helps us believe there are things we can do. 

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    Six things you can do to help your child’s mental health during lockdown

    2021-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Of course, some children are loving lockdown. No school and no early morning bus journey in the freezing cold. But some are hating it and may be hiding it well. Jenni Osborn offers some ideas to make lockdown that much better for you and your children. 

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    Lost In Lockdown, Again?

    2021-01-07T00:00:00Z

    When the leaders of the UK nations announced various forms of lockdown children and parents had various reactions. Some children are thrilled that the school routine has moved to their home, others are dreading weeks stuck indoors and missing their mates. Some parents are wondering if there are any upsides at all. Mark Arnold gives us some tips to help us navigate these days. 

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    4 part series on the man through the roof

    2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are children, youth and all-age resources - all ready to use!

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    4 part series about Mary and Joseph

    2020-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Linked below are children, young people and all-age resources - all ready to use!

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    Parenting can be grand

    2020-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Words: Emily Howarth 

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    Pass-it-on Christmas

    2020-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Ready to use all-age service

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    Come thou unexpected Christmas

    2020-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Many of us will have been fighting to shatter the peaceful but one-dimensional snow globe scene of the Christmas story for years, highlighting the light and shade that makes the birth of Jesus such an epic tale. But something about reading it in the light of the ups and downs of 2020 has made the unexpected parts of the story stand out more than ever before. Diving into them can help us explore our sense of confusion, exhaustion, disappointment and excitement at celebrating Christmas on shifting snow (or sand, who knows with this year!).

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    Christmas rebooted

    2020-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Christmas; the one time of year when you know exactly what you’re doing, right?

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    Terrorism and young people

    2020-11-19T00:00:00Z

    The radicalisation of youth may seem a long way from your weekly youthwork, but as Claire Farley points out, young people are more at risk than we may realise 

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    Your children need you to play video games

    2020-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Headlines about the dangers of video games may not be so prevalent, but most parents are nervous about the content of games and the time spent on them. Youth and Children’s Work Game Boy columnist, Andy Robertson, suggests the answer may be to play video games yourself. Yes really.

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    Reconnecting post-lockdown

    2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Whether you have been running groups in person this autumn, are still online, or just too frightened to do anything at all, Joel Harris has some wisdom for how to re-connect that can shape whatever you are doing or intend to do.

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    The first youth worker: what can we learn from an ancient mentor?

    2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Who was the first Christian youth worker? If you’re thinking strictly in terms of the modern profession, then the answer may lie in names like George Williams, who set up the YMCA in the 1840s, or Hannah More, who set up a kind of Sunday school over 50 years earlier. But if you want to think of the question another way - in terms of who first engaged with young people in a way that looks something like modern youth work - then you need to go further back. Actually, a lot further.

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    Getting Unstuck

    2020-11-06T00:00:00Z

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    November-ish games

    2020-11-06T00:00:00Z

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    What is the church?

    2020-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Please see this resource here.