That said I love the perspective you have given around youth work. As a youth advocate of some 20 years I think the whole youth worker model needs to be readdressed as you mentioned away from dependency, however there still need to be agents of change who can guide these young leaders through networks and one to one to take ownership of their present and future. A job which in my experience is a lot easier to do in more affluent communities than some of the more challenging and less affluent communities.