Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Youth Sector
- Changes
- Social
- A way to control the
middle class youth to
being a service
available to everyone
- Political
- Change in government changes
the policies
- Historical
- Created by religious
organisations and military
based
- Economical
- Now government funded
and supported by the
community
- YACVic
- Ethical Practice Principles
- The Safety of Young People
- Make sure everything
that is reasonably
practical in keeping
the young person and
those around them
safe
- The Empowerment of all Young People
- make their voices heard and
encourage them to partake in
social action
- Provide opportunities for
young people to develop
skills and discover their
capabilities
- Ethical Practice
Responsibilities
- Duty of Care
- Requires everything
reasonably practical to be
done to protect the young
person
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Privacy relates to
the rights to
without access to
information from
others
- Confidentiality relates to
the circumstances in
which personal
information on particular
professionals to report
abuse of neglect
- Services offered to young people
- Mental
Health
- Headspace is a foundation
who helps young people
suffering from a mental
illness, There are centres
that can be visited across
Melbourne
- Education
- Alternative education
re-engages young people in
schooling and keeps them
from dropping out
- Counselling
- Youth Focus offer a counselling
service for young people who
need professional support
- AOD
- Rehabilitation to help the
young person recover from
their addiction
- Employment
- Help with writing resumes and
how to partake in a job interview
to help them build confidence and
knowledge
- Organisation working with young
people - FReeZA
- Youth Participation
- Lead the planning,
development and the
delivery of music events
as well as cultural events
- Gives opportunity
for local young
musicians so
showcase their
talents at events
- Gigs/dances usually
range from $2-$20
so affordable for
kids
- Social Engagement
- Alcohol
and drug free
events such as
dances and gigs.
- People who
attend are
aged 14-18
- 130,000 people attend
throughout Victoria
- Beliefs young people have
- Underage drinking/underage clubbing
- It has become 'cool'
for young people to
go out clubbing with
fake IDs and partake
in underage drinking.
- This will impact the
health of the young
person
- Doing well in school is "nerdy"
- Those who do well
in school are
considered nerds
and often get
bullied for getting
good results
- Students often don't do
the best of their
potential so they don't
get called nerds for
doing well. Which will
impact their education.
- Impacting young people
- LGBTQI
- Young people
who are
discovering their
sexuality are
often scared and
feel alone
- In some communities being
gay is still seen as being
negative and young people are
often bullied which will impact
their confidence levels and
their feeling of acceptance
- Racism
- Victims of racism will have
low self esteem issues and
often feel isolated from their
peers.
- Tend to be ashamed of their
cultural identity because
others are speaking negatively
about it and associating it
with bad things.
- Support for Youth Workers
- Ethical
- Debriefing with supervisor
- Will help keep you destress and
not keep emotions from the day
bottled up
- Professional
- Networking organisations
- Working with other organisations can
help an individual grow in their
workplace and work on gaining a
higher role
- Promoting workplace sustainability
- Consideration of the environment and social impact
- Workforce culture - goals, values, attututudes and behaviouts