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Tag:young people
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Monday, 08 March 2010
Written by David Powell
This report, The Youth Sector in Queensland (PDF), outlines the conduct and findings of two significant research projects undertaken with youth services in Queensland. It presents a summary of themes and possibilities for future actions and research that have emerged from an evidence base that has not previously been documented on the profile and demographics of the youth sector in Queensland.
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Thursday, 31 May 2007
Written by Admin Admin2
Youth Affairs Network of Queensland
(YANQ) director Siyavash Doostkhah slammed the Queensland Government
for walking all over children's rights. The announcement today that
the Queensland Government will continue to lock up children in adult
prisons is simply unacceptable. Queensland children are the only
children in Australia to be locked up in adult prisons.
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Written by Daniel Walker
The National Child Protection Clearinghouse, which is part of the
Australian Institute of Family Studies, has just published a new
resource sheet called Effect of child abuse and neglect for children and adolescents. It outlines types of abuse and their consequences, and has a useful list of reference articles.
The resource sheet is available for download from: http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/sheets/rs17/rs17.html
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Written by Daniel Walker
Improving the wellbeing of Indigenous
children is a national priority and the key to ‘Closing The Gap’
in a generation. Play your part by joining us at this
year's Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities
Conference which will showcase existing successful initiatives,
sharing best practice for integrated services which help ‘Close The
Gap’ on child disadvantage. It will also assess progress made under
the National Partnership for Early Childhood Development and identify
key priority areas to improve service delivery and community
wellbeing.
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Friday, 29 April 2005
Written by David Powell
Speech delivered at the YANQ Conference, 2005
In this speech ( transcript here) Dr Zohl de Ishtar discusses the impact of racism on the futures of young Indigenous people in Central Australia. Dr de Ishtar argues that
"[c]ultural racism is so ubiquitous and invasive that those of us who are part of the dominant culture (that is on the delivery end) often fail to recognise it. It occurs when dominant cultural norms are taken for granted, when dominant systems and lifeways – our structures (or institutions) and ways of doing and being (our customs and practices) – are simply assumed to be the norm."
Download the transcript from http://is.gd/aLmLv.
Friday, 29 April 2005
Written by David Powell
Slides from a Speech delivered at the YANQ Conference, 2005
In this presentation ( slides here), Louise Villanova discusses the role of (the recently funded) Youth Support Coordinators in Queensland Schools.
Download the slides from the presentation at: http://is.gd/aLmhO.
Friday, 29 April 2005
Written by David Powell
Slides from a Speech delivered at the YANQ Conference, 2005
This presentation ( slides here) by John Pitman discusses the findings from research he conducted with young people, as part of the review of the Senior School Certificate in Queensland.
Download the slides from the presentation from: http://is.gd/aLkAl.
Friday, 29 April 2005
Written by David Powell
Slides from a Speech delivered at the YANQ Conference, 2005
In this presentation ( slides here), Chelsea Bond discusses:
- Construction of Aboriginality
- Community development & engaging communities
- The role of young people in community decision making processes
Download the slides from: http://is.gd/aLjsx.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Written by David Powell
The
2009 National Survey of Young Australians, conducted by Mission
Australia, tested the views of close to 48,000 young people – the
biggest group since the survey began in 2002 – between the ages of
11-24 (97.9 per cent aged 11-19).
Drugs, suicide and body image were the most common concerns raised by young people in the survey.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Written by David Powell
The Australian Drug Foundation (ADF) produces information and
resources that can help students and families prepare for schoolies
week. The ADF's DrugInfo Clearinghouse offers many free resources about teenage parties, many of which can be downloaded from the DrugInfo website at http://tinyurl.com/6d5yem.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Written by Admin Admin2
Underage drinking has received a great deal of publicity lately. The topic is often framed as a ‘youth binge-drinking crisis’ or ‘epidemic’. This article by Clarissa Hughes in the July edition of Of Substance briefly outlines the social norms approach to supporting young people to make healthy choices about alcohol - by affirming the fact that most young people are already making healthy choices about alcohol.
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009
Written by David Powell
The report Juvenile justice in Australia 2007–08, released earlier this month by the Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (AIHW), shows that the number of young people in
juvenile justice detention in Australia is increasing.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Written by Admin Admin2
Beyond "That's so Gay" is a short paper that discusses a range of strategies that can be used to combat homophobia. According to the author "It seems thewonders of mass media have joined forces with our fear, hatred and ignorance in relation to homosexuality in order to create a new derogatory term for just aboutanything – the all-pervasive ‘gay’."
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Written by Admin Admin2
Under Queensland's new qualification system, Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award
recipients can now bank two credits toward their
Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE), while both Bronze and Silver awardees can earn one credit.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Written by David Powell
by Christine Halse, Anne Honey and Desiree Boughtwood
While the primary focus of media attention and medical treatment is the
individual's battle with anorexia nervosa, research from University of
Western Sydney reveals that anorexia can have a long term impact on the
physical, social, and psychological well-being of the entire family.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Written by David Powell
by Kylie Hillman, Sheldon Rothman, October 2008. (LSAY research report n.53)
This report is part of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth analytical program. The report examines young people's use of career advice activities
while at school and their perceptions of the usefulness of that advice.
The data are from the 2003 15-year-old cohort of the Longitudinal
Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY).
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Written by David Powell
The 'ARACY Report Card' presents a summary of the wellbeing of
Australia's young people. It provides an international perspective and
sets a baseline for future monitoring.
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Thursday, 16 October 2008
Written by David Powell
How Young People are Faring 2008 provides information on how successfully our
education and training system is working to meet the needs of young
Australians as they make the transition from school to further study
and work. It provides up-to-date analysis of the effectiveness
of transitions, including information on who is doing well and who is
not doing so well in negotiating the various post-school pathways.
The report has been published by the The Foundation for Young Australians in alliance with the Education Foundation .
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Written by David Powell
This
report, published by the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, delivers the latest and most reliable information on how, as a
nation, we are faring according to key statistical indicators of child
and youth health, development and wellbeing.
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Written by David Powell
The Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES) and the
Department of Rural Health at the University of Tasmania have recently
conducted the first major Australian trial of the ‘social norms’
approach to health promotion. The results are
outlined in a briefing paper by Clarissa Hughes and they provide some useful
insights into the application of the Social Norms approach.
Download the Social Norms Analysis Project Results, insights and future priorities
from http://tinyurl.com/4vgdc9 (PDF).
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Written by David Powell
The Inspire
Foundation (www.inspire.org.au) has recently released a new research report titled 'Young
people's perspectives on taking action.' The report argues that the phrase "taking action" to marginalised young people
means something quite different to traditional definitions of social and
political participation.
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Saturday, 11 October 2008
Written by David Powell
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recently released Reform
Issue 92, ‘Children and Young People' which examines the current
treatment of children and young people in the legal process.
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Saturday, 27 September 2008
Written by David Powell
By Richard Eckersley, published by Australia21
The health and wellbeing of young people, an important indicator of Australia’s future population health, is declining. This development is of immense social significance. It has implications not only for how we deal with specific current concerns such as child abuse and neglect, obesity, media sexualisation of children, and binge drinking, but for national priorities and public policy more broadly.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Written by Admin Admin2
This report was produced by the National
Centre for Education and Training on
Addiction (NCETA) at Flinders University.
It comprises a comprehensive literature
review addressing a wide range of social
and cultural factors that potentially
impact on young Australians aged 14-
24 in relation to their use and non-use of
alcohol.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Written by Admin Admin2
The Key Centre for Women's Health in Society has released a report entitled Making it Real: Sexual Health Communication for Young People Living with Disadvantage.
The report is based on research that gathered evidence
on how young people access, interpret and implement sexual health
messages, and which evaluated of a range of current interventions.
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