Gain strategies for helping hurting kids from the Center for Parent Youth Understanding.

What the heck is film for? Most folks see mainstream Hollywood movies as a form of entertainment or escape. For them, seven bucks is a small price to pay for 90 minutes of silly jokes, noisy chase scenes, pumped up action heroes or hot sex.Others, including a growing number of youth workers and pastors,...

The author and motivational speaker shares how youth workers can help teens recover from sexual and physical abuse.

Clinton Faupel, host of the remedy.fm/podcasts, recently hosted YouthWorker Journal Editor Steve Rabey to talk about When Kids Hurt, the book he wrote with YWJ's Senior Editor Chap Clark.You can download the podcast free at iTunes. Look under: "The ER Show for Youth Workers" and then the program: "ER...

The teachers are reading the letters to them right now! For the past three hours, the pastor and I had been working with school administrators to prepare for this moment. A much-beloved middle-school teacher had died in the recovery room after what should have been a routine surgical procedure. An entire...

My son, Aaron, asked me to write this. Actually his request was that I remember. That single word was the last word in the suicide note he wrote before he murdered my wife and daughter Dec. 6, 1996, in the rural community of Moses Lake, Washington. Prior to that, my son’s world was darkened by the school...

YouthWorker Journal writer Ron Jackson interviewed four experts on surviving and ministering during crisis. YouthWorker Journal: All of you have dealt with major crises. What did you learn along the way?

Recently, a man I know—a professing Christian, active in ministry—went away to prison for a long, long time. He was found guilty of more than two-dozen counts related to the sexual molestation and abuse of young girls.

What happens when the phone rings in the middle of night? How would you respond if one of your youth group members was being rushed to the hospital with a serious illness? I know what you are thinking because it was the same thing going through my mind when the phone started ringing. We hope it’s a bad...

Most of us who have any experience working with teenagers probably have too many stories of tragedy and crises affecting the students with whom we work. One of my worst experiences with teenage tragedy occurred before I entered youth ministry, while teaching high school. As a teacher, a phone call before...