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Welcome to the first Youth Health and Development news for 2008.
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Check out the new Youth week site www.youthweek.co.nz
Government tendering for cervical cancer vaccine
New Zealand's treatment programmes for adolescent sex...
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Was being more active one of your New Year resolutions? Here's your opportunity to get moving, as February is Bike Wise Month. The organizers have planned a huge selection of fantastic, fun-filled, safe cycling events nationwide, for all...
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The Minister for Social Development and Employment Paula Bennett has announced the Family Start and Early Start intervention programmes are to be independently reviewed.
The programmes, which were both set up in the 1990s, deliver intensive...
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The stories of eight young people who left school early in Melbourne, interviewed when aged 17 for Stage 8½ of the Brotherhood of St Laurence's longitudinal Life Chances Study, illustrate their complex lives as they consider employment, training...
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This report examines historical enrolment data to analyse the association between the economic cycle and participation in senior secondary school and in tertiary education.
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Economist says that children will be hardest hit during recession
Children are the group most severely affected by the current recession, delegates at Every Child Counts' Summit on Children in the Recession were told...
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Massey University | 11 June 2009
An increase in the use of ecstasy may be due to the outlawing of the party pill drug BZP and the bad reputation of P, according to the latest findings of the illicit drugs monitoring work done by Massey University...
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NZ Herald | February 07, 2008
Something has slipped badly out of alignment when the family of Pihema Edwards, the youth killed, allegedly, because he was tagging fences, can describe him as "just your normal 15-year-old". And when Rob Shields, the...
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NZ Herald | February 16, 2008
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NZ Herald | Sunday February 03, 2008
It is to the credit of the leaders of both main political parties that they have opened the election year with substantial speeches about substantial matters. The fact that his suggestion of a boot-camp-style...
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Volume 88 Number 22 07 December 2009
The final edition of the Education Gazette for the year is online today.
In this edition we continue our series of articles on the National Standards, considering how schools and teachers might plan to work...
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Education system failing students? Troublesome students cost the education system 10 times as much as others, a government report on the state of New Zealand's schools reveals. The annual report into the compulsory schools sector in New...
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The Centre for Economics Policy Research (CEPR) Australia recently published this paper by Juan David Baron. Using unique information from a cohort of Australian youth, it explores the association between young people's perception of control and...
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Educationists challenge zero-tolerance policies
www.stuff.co.nz | Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Education officials have rejected "zero-tolerance get-tough" schemes in schools, saying they contribute to a rising behaviour problem in classrooms....
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Abstinence classes might work: study
Stuff.co.nz | 3 Feb 2010
Educators are being asked to take another look at sex education for 11 to 13-year-old students in light of a recent study from the United States that suggests abstinence programmes...
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In its review of 22 high-quality after-school programs, the American Youth Policy Forum finds that strong out-of-school time learning opportunities can improve academic performance, college and career prep, social and emotional development and...
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Ashburton Guardian
Eleven young Ashburtonians have thrown their hats in the ring, chasing the district's title of young achiever of the year.
Past young achievers have come from a wide range of fields.
Some were living and working overseas at...
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Energy "drinks not good for young teens: study
Otago Daily Times - 2 June 2010
Energy "shots" and energy drinks which contain high levels of caffeine are not suitable for children, young teenagers, pregnant women and people sensitive to...
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Quality out-of-school time programs can have strong academic and developmental benefits for middle schoolers, especially disadvantaged young teens-but only if they attend. Contrary to the myth that young teens don't want their parents around,...
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Positively influencing youth tobacco uptake and use was the factor motivating inclusion of a pilot parenting programme as part of the wider Ngāti Hauiti initiated He Arorangi Whakamua tobacco control project. Qualitative process and...
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NZ Herald | Jun 15, 2009
Teacher aides who help children learn about recycling, saving water and growing their own food have been scrapped by the Education Ministry because those are not considered "core" skills for children to learn. A spokesman...
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Research by the University of Otago, Christchurch indicates there may be disparities in the quality of public hospital care for Maori inpatients in some clinical areas.
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THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY
Volume: 42 | Issue: 3 SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding Youth Violence
Authors: Dannette Marie, David M. Fergusson and Joseph M. Boden
There has been a great deal of debate and speculation...
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Marie, D., & Fergusson, D. (2009, August). Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, 36, 154-171. An analysis of any associations between ethnic identity and exposure to childhood maltreatment from data taken from the Christchurch longitudinal...
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Before deciding on evaluation methods, questions, or anything else, it is important to focus your evaluation by establishing a common goal or purpose-one that accords with organizational values and goals. This toolkit from the Innovation Center for...
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This page compiles some research and evaluation tools you can utilise in your programmes.
If you have tools you are happy to share please send them through and we will add them to this toolkit. Contact us
We have also created a forum for...
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Summary of publication:
Students who are healthy and well supported in school and home are more likely to achieve better educational outcomes. Unresolved health and social issues can have a significant impact on a student's ability to learn and...
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NZ Herald | March 06, 2008
Eating breakfast helps teenagers lose weight, a survey of eating habits in the United States has found. The study showed that those who tuck in to a healthy breakfast - and therefore end up with a higher calorie intake...
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The ‘Evidence and Rights Based Planning and Support Tool for SRHR /HIV-Prevention Interventions for Young People' is a tool for project managers who either design new programmes or who evaluate existing programmes. The tool focuses on the...
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Robin Brooke sorry for assaulting teen girl
TVNZ - Feb 8, 2010
Former All Black Robin Brooke has issued a public apology to the teenage girl who claims he assualted her on New Year's Eve in Fiji.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with...
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The Dominion Post
A FORMER MP RIPS OFF CHARITIES - 300 HOURS' WORK FOR THE COMMUNITY
Disgraced ex-Cabinet minister Roger McClay will have to spend 300 hours doing community work and faces being stripped of a medal and the title "honourable"....
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Beehive - Media Release - 14 Jan 2010
Young people will have more chances to challenge and test themselves this year through an expanded Limited Service Volunteer (LSV) course says Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett.
With...
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Herald | May 24, 2009
A drink containing more than twice as much caffeine as the average flat white is the latest weapon in the energy drinks war. But the moves have raised concern among teachers and dieticians about the effects of such drinks on...
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This paper purports that identifying the perceptions of different Pacific groups on ethnic-specific elements of cultural competencies are necessary to build and strengthen the capacity and capability of mental health services to provide culturally...
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Expressions of interest are invited for Social Services ITO
Expressions of interest are invited from social service sector agencies to apply for enrolment in the Social Services ITO service to recognise inhouse training programmes for staff and...
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Expressions of Interest (EOIs) close next Wednesday (14 October 2009) for the Ministry of Health's Better, Sooner, More Convenient Primary Health Care. This is the Government's initiative to provide more personalised primary health care closer to...
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New Zealand Herald - Audrey Young - 23 April 2010
Finance Minister Bill English says $1.8 billion of "low quality" spending will be cut from Government departments in next month's Budget and directed into higher priority spending in...
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The Dominion Post - 7 July 2010
The Government has had to cough up an extra $118 million after record numbers of cash-strapped students asked for financial help.
More than 82,000 students used the Government's student living allowance scheme in...
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