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Managing youth services

  • Recruiting staff (PDF)
    This handbook is a step by step guide to the employment process for youth service managers. The guide covers preparing job descriptions, advertising, convening employment panels, interviewing and confirming employment arrangements.

  • Time management (PDF)
    This handbook will help you to improve your time management at work. Time management skills will help you focus on your key priority areas and provide quality time for supporting your staff. This handbook looks at increasing your productivity (not workload) and reducing your stress by increasing the control you have on your workload. Everyone has a right to a personal life, so get organised and get out of the office!   This handbook was written for youth service managers, but has useful information for any youth sector worker.

  • Board of Governance fact sheets (PDF)
    YAPA prepared some fact sheets for our own Board of Governance. Feel free to use this publication and adapt it for your own management committee or Board.

  • Setting goals for a Board of Governance (PDF)
    This document is a checklist that YAPA has developed for its Board of Governance. Feel free to adapt this for your own Management Committee or Board. You can use this checklist to review the performance of your Board and then set achievable goals for the next 6 months.

  • Professional supervision (PDF 312KB) fact sheet

  • Youth participation in youth services fact sheet


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