Youth Action and Policy Association

Opportunities for young people

• What's the plan?
• Young People's Human Rights Medal
• Australian of the Year
• What do YOU think about media reporting on illicit drugs?
• Indent Partnership Grants
• The Red Cross Youth e-Zine
• ArtStart

Youth news

• Roy's ready to get his hands dirty (20 year old elected to federal parliament)
• Students asked to plan 'terror attack'
• Dutch girl, 14, slips away to sail globe
• Buddies build a bridge to disabilities in school
• Holocaust survivors help tackle prejudice
• Morning after pill awareness shortfall
• Appeal for shorter job shifts rejected
• School daze: why teens should lie in

News & resources for youth workers

• Lack of sleep linked to mental illness
• Focus on homeless aims to end couch-surfing
• Young people the hidden victims of the GFC
• Good or bad? Wait a few years and study will tell all

onsite: new from YAPA

• What's Up West - Media Release 8/10

• Evaluation of YAPA Youth Participation Grants Program (PDF 516KB) 7/09

• YAPA submission to NSW Government graffiti legal review (PDF 1.2MB) (from 2007, but still in demand!) 6/09

• Girls@Work: getting a fair go: High school resource on workplace issues that affect young people in general, & the particular needs of young women. 2008

• Young people & rangers: Self paced learning kit for rangers 6/08

• 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

• Meeting Places - Where People & Places Meet: Approaches to Public Space Management Guide by Pota Hatzopoulos & Garner Clancey. 2007
  

• 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

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

youthwork > new from YAPA

Working with young people with alcohol or other drug issues

A self paced learning 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

A place for us

Young women's participation & access to youth services in western Sydney

Designed to improve the access of young women to services - 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

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

• 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

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

• Eurobodalla taxi voucher scheme 9/06

See also What's on for youth workers.