YOUTH FORUM
At the end of Term 1, a group of 4 students, from year 10, were invited to attend a youth forum at Know Grammar High School held by an organisation, KYDS. The group of students were accompanied by Ms Reynolds, our year adviser and our school chaplain Rob Waugh. This was the 3rd annual Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Youth Forum, and it has been helping kids our age who face many hardships on their own, to always find the positives in a bad situation. In this forum we outlined many areas of leading youth issues, such as (mental illnesses, bullying, drugs and alcohol), with a focus on positive mental health. After we had gotten to know some of the students around us, we slowly explored the booming statistics and facts, of the specific topics mentioned. The many different students, who attended this forum, were an eager bunch of teenagers who were ready to make a change in the lives around us. Some of the questions that arose, from an audience filled with students, were all to do with personal experiences with a friend, in or out of school, who were faced with a mental illness. Most of these questions were questions we had heard before, but on the other hand there were questions that were still yet to be heard. A few guest speakers who have had experiences with teens who face these issues were a part of the question and answer panel on the day. They were an encouraging group of adults, who gave specific students with concerns about a friend they knew, some skills and techniques to prevent their friend from doing harm not only to themselves, but to others around them. Majority of the questions asked were in some way related to mental health, because this was the leading cause of teenage deaths in Australia. Mental health was the main focus of the day, and as the discussion went on stigma was said to be the leading cause of mental illnesses in teens today. Stigma means a mark of insignificance that sets an
Credit Suisse - Youth Unemployment: Europe's Biggest Burden? https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenA... Home > News and Expertise > News > Economy > Europe Europe Youth Unemployment: Europe's Biggest Burden? Cushla Sherlock, Corporate Communications If preventative action against youth unemployment is not taken quickly, Europe's youth may become a lost generation, experts cautioned at a Credit Suisse panel discussion on the topic during the World Economic…
invited guests and members of the United Nations Youth Forum. Today I am privileged to have the opportunity to address the issues surrounding youth media, and how various forms of media are negatively affecting the wellbeing of our Australian youth. As outlined in Susan Gigli’s 2004 report, rising levels of substance abuse amongst our youth, is increasingly attributed to inappropriate role models. Gigli’s contentions about the wellbeing of susceptible youth who are targeted by inappropriate, amoral media…
Child Youth Care Forum (2015) 44:43–57 DOI 10.1007/s10566-014-9269-7 ORIGINAL PAPER Materialistic Values Among Chinese Adolescents: Effects of Parental Rejection and Self-esteem Xinyuan Fu • Yu Kou • Ying Yang Published online: 8 July 2014 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Background Materialistic values among today’s adolescents have been a concern around the world, yet few studies concerning Chinese adolescents’ materialistic values have been conducted. Additionally…
Youth mountain biking at Bedgebury Active England project In 2005/6, the Forestry Commission was awarded funding under the Active England programme to increase community participation in physical activity at Bedgebury Forest in Kent, with a particular emphasis on young people, as a key target group. This initiative was one of five Active England funded woodland projects. Mountain biking, as a popular youth sport, was promoted under the scheme and provides the case study for this research (completed…
rely on, I was very nervous. However, I was also very excited for the amazing opportunities at the medical forum and volleyball camp that I would be going to. As I hugged my family goodbye and boarded my plane, I began to feel slightly lonely. When my plane touched down in Raleigh, North Carolina, I was immediately lost in the airport. Finally, I saw a sign with “National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine” written on it. I started making friends right away and my most memorable and amazing summer…
Abstract For this paper, focused was made to the children and youth as the vulnerable population. Over the past few years, it has been noticed that the youth are influenced by social media, the internet and the television and are airing their issues over the internet in the form of videos. The Ministry of Education noting this problem has implemented various strategies to address the problems highlighted. These policies are yet to be strictly enforced in our schools. What was noted is the lack…
To what extent has the theory of restorative justice been integrated into Youth Justice practice in England and Wales? Has this gone far enough? The perception by many involved in the justice system in general, and youth justice in particular, is that the present model of punitive retributive justice, often involving incarceration does not work. Indeed, it may be compounding an already huge social problem. This realisation has lead many to look for alternative systems. At present there is a considerable…
role technology plays in people’s lives today and how that has the potential to impact positively or negatively on future generations. YOUR TASK: You are to prepare a multimodal presentation for the United Nations Youth for the Future Forum. Simply put, a multimodal presentation involves a presentation through more than one mode. You are required to give a 5 minute presentation (including 3-4 minutes of you talking) informing your audience of an issue that is of global importance…
disposal: the Internet, virtual reality, blogs, video games, chat bots, and, of course, social network platforms could be used for various purposes. For years, terrorists have communicated on-line, sharing al-Qaeda propaganda or writing in on-line forums dedicated entirely to the prospect of Islamist terrorism. But they have recently evolved with technological changes, utilizing social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube to enhance their capabilities. The same place the average person posts photos…
flexibility to move around (Beck 1992), particularly in the workforce. These sociological changes in employment since the 1970s will be examined in this essay using the concepts of individualisation and risk for an understanding of their impact on youth (those aged between 18 and 34 years) today since the Baby Boomers’ Generation. Changes to the workforce since the Baby Boomers’ generation (those born between the years 1946-65 (Woodman & Wyn 2006)) have come to reflect society's increased demand…