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This is YANQ's brief response to issues raised by interagencies in the 1st Quarter of 2007:   YANQ Response - YCN 1st Quarter 2007 313.61 Kb

In the response you will find some information on a variety of issues, along with information about what YANQ does with the information we are given.  The topics responded to in this response are as follows:

• Housing & Accommodation
• Transport
• Education
• Anger Management 
• Employment
• Funding – Youth Week Funding
• Funding – General Lack of
• Cooperation/Collaboration
• Training re: Standards for Community Services, and Self-Harm

This is YANQ's brief response to issues raised by interagencies in the 1st Quarter of 2006:  YANQ Response - 1st Qrtr 2006 141.91 Kb.

In this document YANQ provides information regarding the following topics:

• Support for the Sudanese community
• Housing & Accommodation
• Mental health
• Accountability requirements
• Funding for youth services
  

Below is YANQ's initial response to issues raised by interagencies in the 2nd Quarter of 2006.  In this document YANQ provides information regarding the following topics:

• Services for 12-16 year olds, and general availability of services
  
• Education (literacy, numeracy and disengaged young people)
  
• Housing and accommodation
• Move-on powers
• Mental health
• Sexuality
• Wage levels for NGO workers

 Respnose - 2nd Quarter 2006 294.24 Kb

This is YANQ's brief response to issues raised by interagencies in the 3rd Quarter of 2006:  Response - YCN 3rd qrtr 2006 324.25 Kb

In this response we deal with the following issues:

• Housing & Accommodation
• Young Women
  
• Education
• Transport
• Employment
• Drugs and Alcohol
  
• Mental Health
• Staff recruitment
• funding levels of youth services

Here is YANQ's response to the issues raised by interagencies in the 4th Quarter of 2006:  Response - 4th qrtr 2006 201.73 Kb

The topics responded to in this response are as follows:

• Housing & accommodation
• Drugs and alcohol
• Mental health
  
• Low funding levels for services

As part of the Campaign for fair pay and working conditions for youth workers, Siyavash Doostkhah (YANQ Director) and Stuart Maggs (ASU Organiser) were interviewed on August 31 by The Wire (Independent Current Affairs on Community Radio).

You can find an MP3 of their interview at http://www.thewire.org.au/audio/HAyouthagreement.mp3.

In this article (What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), published in the Journal of Child Neurology, Dr Lydia Furman argues that "the working dogma that ADHD is a disease or neurobehavioral condition does not at this time hold up to scrutiny of evidence".

Read more at the International Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology.

An issues paper written to encourage discussion and debate about the ETRF process

Over the past 18 months community service lead agencies have been striving to build a more positive future for the Community Services Sector through the work of the Future of the Sector Project. The work of the project to date has included the development of the Queensland Community Services Sector Charter and the establishment of a Community Services Futures Forum.

The next step in the project is a Communication Strategy for the Community Services Sector to communicate to other sectors of society (government, business and the broader community) what the Queensland Community Services Sector is, and to raise awareness of its vital role and invaluable contribution.

As you are aware, the Queensland Government is in the process of reviewing the Juvenile Justice Act 1992.  YANQ recently held a forum for the sector to discuss the review and is urging all of our members and colleagues to make a submission.

Did you know that YANQ's website contains hundreds of articles about young people with more being added every day?  On this site you can find everything from information on policy that effects young people to  resources for youth workers.

Finding the information you need can be pain, especially if you are just scrolling through list after list of titles and summaries.  This is what the search function is for!

Youth Workers!

STOP!

For just five minutes and relax...

Here at YANQ, we are hearing a lot of people telling us how busy and stressed they are feeling. It seems we all have a lot (maybe too much) on our plates.

We need to start looking after ourselves and each other.  To help with this YANQ wants to hear how you look after yourself and your colleagues and we'll share all the ideas we get.

YANQ and other peak and state-wide organisations met recently to discuss the next stage of the Future of the Sector strategy. The Future of the Sector Project is looking to engage the sector about how we can be more proactive in building a positive future for our sector. For more information: http://www.qcoss.org.au/Article.aspx?type=news&id=658.