For years now young people, youth workers and YAPA have criticised police and shopping centres for excessively excluding young people from public spaces - moving them on or banning them. Now it is time to look at youth services and their own 'exclusionary practices'. In 2005 one of YAPA's priorities is youth services and bans, hence this set of resources.
YAPRap newsletter
YAPRap September 2005 (PDF 440KB) features:
- Garner Clancey on the social, political and economic context of young people and exclusion
- Courtney Innes on her research into banning policies
- Drum Youth Resource Centre on how they changed the culture of their youth centre
- Graeme Stuart on the results of his research into youth services and non-violence
- Katina Dimoulias on her current research into behaviour and environmental factors in youth centres.
Research report
Non Violence and Youth Work Practice in Australia, a PhD thesis by Graeme Stuart
Model Policies
Model policies on working with young people, including:
- Rules and Consequences policy (which has a section on bans)
- Alcohol and illegal drugs policy
- a Non-violence policy
to use as a base for developing your own policy.
Alcohol & illegal drugs fact sheet
Alcohol & illegal drugs: Law & policy for NSW youth services fact sheet (PDF)
Questions?
YAPA's Communications Officer, Nick Manning, is happy to answer any questions that you may have (NSW only), or refer you to someone who may be able to assist.
