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Prevention, Diversion, Recovery & Redemption via Youth Work/ Social Work/Community (place & circ) 🤟🏼views all my own 🤠

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

"Creating team joy & wellbeing: a guide for leaders". This is a super resource, designed by leaders in health & care, to help teams and leaders assess where they’re at, identify how to grow as a team & make meaningful changes to improve team well-being.
It includes practical change ideas, coaching strategies & ways to engage teams in this work:
https://t.co/YNu0eJqwfl.
Hi res image: https://t.co/RSWRqgi29Z.
These resources were created by Jessica Barker & Marianne Morgan from @Interior_Health in Canada.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

As a father, watching Adolescence with my teenage son and daughter hit home hard.

We all need to be having these conversations more.

I've backed Netflix's plan to show the series for free in schools across the country, so as many young people as possible can see it.

[Gerry🧠�� @gerrydiamond71]

We assume that when someone looks like an adult , he or she must be one mentally as well. Adolescent boys can shave & teenage girls can get pregnant, & yet neurobiologically, neither one has a brain ready for prime time: the adult world.🧠🌱

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

"There's a Japanese legend that says crying is how your eyes speak when your heart is too broken for words. And honestly, that’s so true. Sometimes, pain runs so deep that words fail—but your tears tell the story your soul can’t. Let them fall, let them speak, let yourself heal."

[Gerry🧠🌱 @gerrydiamond71]

Behaviour management is not about the child.
Behaviour management is about the adults.
A regulated calm adult can regulate a dysregulated anxious child. But a dysregulated adult can never regulate a dysregulated child.They need to meet them in their nervous system states.🧠🌱

[All On The Board @allontheboard]

Don't think you're being weak for sometimes wanting to hide away;
You are tired from being strong, it takes strength to face the world everyday.
@allontheboard

[Gerry🧠🌱 @gerrydiamond71]

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[CYCJ Scotland @CYCJScotland]

📂 New resource available!

The 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 document has been added to the Youth Justice Improvement Board website!

This is an essential read for anyone working with children in conflict with the law, reflecting developments in policy, practice and legislation.

Find it here: https://t.co/mVRJKJcozF

[NivenR_SocialImpactScotland @niven_SIS]

First they came for the elderly and removed their winter protection, then they came for families, the two child cap remained, then they came for the Ill and disabled….the tories lost the election did they not?

[Graeme Armstrong @G_Armstrong21]

We’re on, troops!!

#TheYoungTeam coming soon to your BBC screens…

@SynchronicityF
@BBCScotland
@BBCPress

https://t.co/Mixom23j7y

[Office of the Chief Social Work Adviser (OCSWA) @SG_OCSWA]

Happy World Social Work Day to all social workers, and social work students!

#WSWD2025

[DYW Ayrshire @DYWAyrshire]

This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Parents & carers, join an online session about Supporting Children Through Times of Transition taking place on Friday from 11.30am - 1pm. Book here: https://t.co/VZsgoGnKFI
View events for the rest of the week: https://t.co/L38f4DoifT

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

For any parent living with a teen and struggling, this is worth a read. It’s a letter written by Gretchen L. Schmelzer, a child psychologist, from a teenager's viewpoint, voicing what they are unable to say to their parent.

Dear Parent,

This is the letter that I wish I could write.

This fight we are in right now. I need it. I need this fight. I can’t tell you this because I don’t have the language for it and it wouldn’t make sense anyway. But I need this fight. Badly. I need to hate you right now and I need you to survive it. I need you to survive my hating you and you hating me. I need this fight even though I hate it too. It doesn’t matter what this fight is even about: curfew, homework, laundry, my messy room, going out, staying in, leaving, not leaving, boyfriend, girlfriend, no friends, bad friends. It doesn’t matter. I need to fight you on it and I need you to fight me back.

I desperately need you to hold the other end of the rope. To hang on tightly while I thrash on the other end—while I find the handholds and footholds in this new world I feel like I am in. I used to know who I was, who you were, who we were. But right now I don’t. Right now I am looking for my edges and I can sometimes only find them when I am pulling on you. When I push everything I used to know to its edge. Then I feel like I exist and for a minute I can breathe. I know you long for the sweeter kid that I was. I know this because I long for that kid too, and some of that longing is what is so painful for me right now.

I need this fight and I need to see that no matter how bad or big my feelings are—they won’t destroy you or me. I need you to love me even at my worst, even when it looks like I don’t love you. I need you to love yourself and me for the both of us right now. I know it sucks to be disliked and labeled the bad guy. I feel the same way on the inside, but I need you to tolerate it and get other grownups to help you. Because I can’t right now. If you want to get all of your grown-up friends together and have a ‘surviving-your-teenager-support-group-rage-fest’ that’s fine with me. Or talk about me behind my back–I don’t care. Just don’t give up on me. Don’t give up on this fight. I need it.

This is the fight that will teach me that my shadow is not bigger than my light. This is the fight that will teach me that bad feelings don’t mean the end of a relationship. This is the fight that will teach me how to listen to myself, even when it might disappoint others.

And this particular fight will end. Like any storm, it will blow over. And I will forget and you will forget. And then it will come back. And I will need you to hang on to the rope again. I will need this over and over for years.

I know there is nothing inherently satisfying in this job for you. I know I will likely never thank you for it or even acknowledge your side of it. In fact I will probably criticize you for all this hard work. It will seem like nothing you do will be enough. And yet, I am relying entirely on your ability to stay in this fight. No matter how much I argue. No matter how much I sulk. No matter how silent I get.

Please hang on to the other end of the rope. And know that you are doing the most important job that anyone could possibly be doing for me right now.

Love, Your Teenager

[KPJRFilms @KPJRFilms]

To all the lovely and hard-working parents and caregivers ❤️ #BeTheOne #OneCaringAdult

[Scottish Curling @scottishcurling]

𝐀 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 🥈

An incredible achievement from Scottish Curling at these world championships.

Congratulations to Hugh and Charlotte!

[Scottish Curling @scottishcurling]

𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘’𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐓!

Scotland are in the final of the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Championship!

[Gerry🧠🌱 @gerrydiamond71]

When our young people are highly stressed ,fight/flight/freeze response,they will have high levels of cortisol(stress hormone).This makes it harder for them to think,make decisions, reflect, problem solve & access learning.🧠🌱

[Aye Mind @ayemind99]

Today is #WorldSleepDay! ⏰

To mark the day, we're sharing our newsletter which looks at:

💤 Why sleep matters for children and young people
💤 How social media impacts sleep
💤 Resources and strategies to support healthy sleep

https://t.co/WrmlxvgRUF

[CLD Standards Council @cldstandards]

We have been engaging with members on the proposed Youth Work Bill for Scotland. Members strongly advise of the need for strengthened legislation to support the CLD profession in its entirety. See our full response on our website. https://t.co/FyhGTs1m1t

[North Ayrshire Corporate Parenting @OneVoiceNA]

📢 The next First Steps Programme will start on Tuesday 8th of April and will run for 4 weeks. If you are interested, please get in touch with Jacqueline on 07584103585. 🤙