Youth Action and Policy Association

opportunities for young people

• Foundation for Young Australians
• ArtStart
• Play Now Act Now

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Approaches to Public Space Management

• Problems arising from young people’s use of public space
• Fear of groups of young people
• Under-age drinking
• Anti-Social Behaviour
• Preventing Boredom

2007 guide by Pota Hatzopoulos & Garner Clancey for YAPA. More on Meeting Places ... Approaches to Public Space Management

Girls@Work: Getting a Fair Go

A teaching resource

An introduction to workplace issues for high school aged students, focusing on issues that affect young people in general, as well as the particular needs of young women.

Practical information for young people, especially young women, who may soon join the workforce. For use in curriculum areas eg:

• Commerce 7-10
• Work Education 7-10
• Personal Development, Health & Physical Education 7-10
• Life Education

Also valuable for youth centres and programs. More on Girls@Work: Getting a Fair Go

Shopping Centres

Considering youth issues in shopping centre development applications

A guide for local government to ensure that the needs of young people are appropriately catered for during shopping centre re-developments.

2007 by Olivia Usien & Garner Clancey for YAPA.

More on Shopping Centres: Considering youth issues in shopping centre development applications

Young people & libraries

Self paced learning kit for librarians

• Common Scenarios – Young People and Libraries
• Law, Policies and Rules
• Design, Layout and Observation
• Building Rapport & Communicating with Young People
• Understanding Young People
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
• Dealing with Alcohol & Other Drug Intoxication

Young people & libraries: Self paced learning kit

onsite: new from YAPA

• Between addicts and princesses: Why is it so hard to find a decent female role-model in the Australian media? 4/08

• Young carers: children and young people who help care in families where someone has an illness, a disability, a mental illness or who has an alcohol or other drug problem... They need to know that help is available to them... 4/08

• Youth council / committee evaluation template 2/08

• Youth survey template 2/08

• Committees jargon buster 2/08

• Hope I don't fry before I get old: "...no generation before has ever had to worry about the death of the planet quite like us." 11/07

• We're here, we're queer, we're still in high school: "The gay teenager is a modern invention." 10/07

• Cyber Bullying – It's a Crime! Media Campaign - audio interview with John Laws about this project - large file 3.2MB wav format 11/07

• Young Shorties: Harrington Park Youth Arts (HYPA) team hold a short play performance festival celebrating the talents of local emerging writers and actors 11/07

• Skaters Unite: young skaters of Nambucca put on a skateboard festival 11/07

• Moree Superstar: Moree Plains Youth Council stage a singing contest extravaganza for young people 11/07

• Respecting young parents 11/07

• Steering young people straight (story & mp3 radio ads) 10/07

• YAPA skills report: Young people want to be trained to help themselves & help the skills shortage: media release & report 340KB PDF 8/07

• Brawls, batons & beer goggles: Young people talk about alcohol (280KB PDF) 8/07

• North Richmond Rock Chicks: Rock across the River 7/07

• YAPA has transport concession victory for apprentices & trainees 4/07

• NSW Labor Govt promises for youth 4/07

• 2006 Annual Report 6/07

• Initiatives in youth justice 3/07

• Third Dimension: social indicator for triple bottom line 3/07

• Black Dog in Orange 2/07

• Narromine alcohol awareness 2/07

• Adolescent development & risk-taking 2/07

• Peace Train to Cronulla: 12/06
  Read story or listen to mp3:
  * 56kbps 2MB or * 128kbps 5MB

• BRINK young women & alcohol 12/06

• Young Women's Leadership Project 12/06

• Finding out about local youth needs 11/06

• Wiradjuri Youth Kulture exhibition 10/06

youthwork > new from YAPA

latest feature #1: Working with young people with alcohol or other drug issues: A self paced learning package

Youth workers play a key role to address alcohol and other drug (AOD) issues with young people - they:

• are likely to have the opportunity to intervene
• have a client base with a high rate of alcohol and other drug problems
• can make a difference to many clients.

YAPA produced this package to improve service delivery for young people by increasing the knowledge, skills and organisational capacity of youth workers on alcohol and other drug issues.

Working with young people with alcohol or other drug issues: A self paced learning package 12/07

latest feature #2: A place for us: Young women's participation & access to youth services in western Sydney

Take a look at many youth centres and services and you're likely to notice a lot more guys than girls. For many reasons, traditional forms of youth service contain unseen barriers that prevent young women from gaining access to, and participating in, services.

A place for us is designed to improve the access of young women to services. A place for us will help you empower young women and explore new ways of affirming your commitment to them. More on A place for us 10/07

other new youthwork resources

• StreetWork Kickstart - an intensive support program for at risk youth in Sydney's north. 4/08

• Making a difference in Walgett: 3 successful youth projects in the Walgett, Collarenebri and Lightning Ridge communities 4/08

• Where can I be myself? GLBT. What does this mean? Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender doesn't really explain it. 4/08

• Ourspace? Yourspace? Myspace? ... some of our experiences and lessons learnt as many youth workers are a little bit “nervous” about venturing into myspace... 4/08

• Community Links: Life Stuff and Standing Strong: partnerships between Community Links Wollondilly and Picton High School 4/08

• Domestic & family violence: not just an adult issue: 2/08
  * part 1: In young people's intimate relationships
  * part 2: In the family home

• Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW 1/08

• Young Parents Early Intervention Parenting Program (YPEIPP): prevention and early intervention program assisting young parents and their children through information, education and collaboration 12/07

  Parenting Young Project: collaborative approach to working with young parents - support, information and recreation to parents under 24 through 2 groups. 12/07

• Anger management 8/07

• Young women take photos to explore relationships: Light, stills, emotion! 5/07

• Unique program for newly arrived youth 4/07

• McCully's Gap Youth Group 5/07

• Opening the Doors: Working with young people who experience barriers using your service: disabilities, Aboriginal, gay & lesbian, early school leavers, rural, young women, young parents, refugee & migrant, mental health juvenile justice 3/07

• Professional supervision (PDF 312KB) 3/07

• Berridale needs youth centre 3/07

• DOCS funding reform update 2/07

• Making positive change in rural NSW 1/07

• Youth work in rural settings PDF 231KB 1/07

• Bega Reconnect early intervention 12/06

• Parkside youth facility Gosford 12/06

• Regional Youth Support Services Gosford 12/06

• Eurobodalla taxi voucher scheme 9/06

• Resilience in Nambucca 9/06

• Is it OK? Duty of care, law & ethics in NSW youth work 7/06

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