The Scoop Newsletter October 2015
YACSA Update Hello and welcome to edition #3 of The Scoop! It’s been all about events at YACSA HQ since last we spoke. We held our Annual General Meeting on the 21st and had a great time celebrating a successful 2014-15 financial year with our members and special guests. Young member Georgina Morphett spoke about youth engagement at the event and let attendees know about our plans for the establishment of a policy group and an events group who will plan and host a state wide forum for young people – you can read a summary of Georgie’s speech on page 4. Big thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a fabulous night. This month the team attended a Future Jobs Forum, hosted by Senator Hon Penny Wong and Hon Brendon O’Connor MP. A panel of speakers discussed local job opportunities and challenges in light of SA’s high rate of unemployment and pending manufacturing and mining industry closures. Employment has been a theme in our team discussions over the past few months and we remain deeply concerned about the rate of youth unemployment and underemployment. There are a few enduring myths about young people in the workforce so here’s something we prepared earlier – an op-ed written by Annie our awesome Comms Officer. Also this month, we consulted young people involved in the Flexible Learning Options (FLO) program from across the Riverland at a forum hosted by DECD and facilitated by YACSA. Kristy and Annie planned and facilitated the forum for young people who had missed out on the Speak Up! Forum held in Adelaide in June. The impacts of the GLS for young people have been an ongoing focus for YACSA; we’re revisiting this policy in the lead up to Schoolies Week, where a majority of SA young people descend on Victor Harbor. The Motor Accident Commission has ceased funding buses from regional areas, so we’ll be checking with our metro and regional networks to see what other options might be available. We’re also going to publish an infographic outlining the new rules to help remind anyone who’s planning to make the trip. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for that info.
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Op Ed: Jobs of the Future
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Annual General Meeting
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Compulsory Income Management
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Regional Voices
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Handy Hansard
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Opportunities
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If you have any suggestions or would like to submit something for the next edition of The Scoop, email yacsa@yacsa.com.au. Cheers Anne
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Op Ed: Employers need to prepare for the jobs of the future too
— Annie Waters
South Australia is currently experiencing a prolonged period of employment uncertainty with seemingly no end in sight. With the collapse of the automotive industry, the high Australian dollar that has undermined the export industry and an increasingly casualised workforce, the state unemployment rate is the highest in the country, at 7.9 per cent. It is predicted that once Holden closes for good in 2017, 24 000 jobs will be lost, potentially boosting the unemployment rate to 12 per cent. This will contribute to the yearly exodus of around 3000 South Australians who move to other states looking for appropriate work (mainly young people aged 15-29, particularly young women). The challenges facing young people in this market are immense. Not only is the unemployment rate for people under 25 more than double that of the populationwide figure, but people 15 to 24 comprise almost half of the casual workforce; add in the often overlooked figures of underemployment and the picture gets even worse. With the employment market currently offering one job for every ten job seekers, young people are often pushed to the bottom of the pile as increasingly overqualified people compete for low or
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entry level positions, a process known as ‘bumping down’. Starting any new job involves a certain level of adjustment and learning how to navigate a new workplace environment. Young people face a raft of preconceived notions about them when they enter the workforce; laziness, entitlement, ignorance about how workplaces function. A common complaint is that young people don’t have the “soft skills” or “life experience” that allows them to find employment. But with fewer entry level jobs and increasing competition – especially as long-term manufacturing jobs are lost – young people are expected to acquire those skills … where exactly?
Life experience is not determined by the date on your birth certificate, but the number of opportunities that have been made available to you. No longer can young people walk into a cadetship or apprenticeship off the street, because insurance, qualifications and resources now preclude employment from happening this way. Universities are currently geared towards imparting knowledge, not workplacerelated skills. TAFE providers should fill this gap, but have themselves suffered from funding uncertainty in recent times. School is geared towards getting people into those higher education courses that are a “pre-requisite” for future employment. But what we hear from school-aged students (especially those who don’t fit into the traditional schooling
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model) is that they want to be taught real-life skills, like how to pay tax or write a resume. Formal education can only ever be one part of the story. The market has evolved from how it looked 20, even ten, years ago, and it is employers who need to catch up. In a world where this cohort may have up to 17 different jobs across five different fields in their lifetime, it is facile to think that a young employee will stay with your business for more than 12 months if they’re not progressing, not engaging in “life-long learning”.
Employers need to shift the idea that “investing” in an individual implies ownership of that person.
important are those that are difficult for a computer to replicate; namely, creativity, innovation and agility. You don’t foster those qualities by doing the same thing day-in, day-out, nor do you foster them by performing menial jobs well below your level of education. Do you want to halt this state’s brain-drain and encourage an innovative, creative workforce? Hire young people without prejudice and accept that on-the-job training is not a luxury, but a necessity.
This opinion piece was first published on YACSA’s website on September 30.
Rather, you’re investing in a vibrant, flexible and resourceful workforce that can adapt to the shifting sands of future employment. In an increasingly automated environment, the values that will be
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YACSA hosted our Annual General Meeting on October 21 and true to form, it was pretty casual and lightning fast. Our keynote speech was delivered by Georgina Morphett, who has had experience of youth engagement mechanisms at a local, state and national level.
YACSA Annual General Meeting
— Georgina Morphett
It’s no secret that youth empowerment, youth engagement and youth policy development have all endured a substantial cut over the past few years both at a Federal and State level. Previous government consultation forums such as the South Australian Minister’s Youth Council and Youth Advisory Committees (YACs) have been defunded or removed from the government agenda. At a national level, the Australian Youth Forum Steering Committee has been removed, along with various other youth programs including National Youth Week which will not be funded beyond 2017. Perhaps even more concerning is the absence of young people from decision making forums, where young people involved in these consultations were previously invited to attend. The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition has also been defunded, and state-
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based peak bodies are left to nearly single-handedly advocate for and support young people. Youth policy federally has been said to be “a work in progress” with no apparent focus or public progression since 2013, and there has been essentially no government consultation with young people in developing the new youth strategy for South Australia. At a time when youth homelessness and youth unemployment rates are devastatingly high, and with the education sector battling to keep up with the rapidly changing employment market, it is now more important than ever for young people to be included and engaged in the higher level decisions which affect them.
Young people have an intimate knowledge of how their lives can be improved by sustainable policy goals, and many young people have a desire to be involved in entrepreneurial and creative initiatives within their communities.
The paradigm of the youth space is changing, and it
Many, many young people are passionate about
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youth engagement, so if you know a young person
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who would be interested in being involved please
government and the sector in order to be able to best
direct them our way. Similarly, the group would
represent and accommodate its members.
be endlessly appreciative of any leads to potential
YACSA has assembled a group of active and enthusiastic young members to form a young members’ policy group. While the planning for this is still in its early stages, the group is proposed to have two subsections: policy and events. The policy group
funding or sponsorship for the group to run accessible events. We’re excited to assist YACSA’s current secretariat in making progress for young people and look forward to your support along this journey.
will be similar to the existing YACSA policy council, and extend to filling the void that has been created with the winding up of previous policy consultation bodies for young people. Another subsection of the group will focus on creating engaging events for young people, and is in the early stages of planning a state-wide forum, which will also be delivered in rural and regional areas, where young people can be upskilled in areas of advocacy, contribute to the youth policy discussion and share ideas with other motivated young people.
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Compulsory Income Management in Playford Catherine Story is about to finish an Honors thesis in which she has looked at the policy change that automatically put young people on Compulsory Income Management in the Playford area. In particular, she is looking at the assumptions around young people in Playford that underpin that decision. The Scoop met with her to find out more about the issue. Could tell me a little bit about Compulsory Income Management? Compulsory Income Management (CIM) is a welfare quarantining program where 50 percent of a person’s income is put on a card which they call the BasicsCard. Basically, that card stops you from spending money on certain things, like alcohol, tobacco, homebrew kits and pornography. You can’t buy vouchers in supermarkets either. The way that the program works is that shops have to get themselves registered to be on the approved list of stores for BasicsCard. So, in the area where CIM is in SA, in the Playford area, the two main shopping centres are Munno Parra and Elizabeth. There are a bunch of other stores that have gotten
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themselves BasicsCard approved as well. But there have been some reports about some stores having kind of negative associations with people on income management, so they might not necessarily want to get approved. If you are on income management it does kind of confine you to the place-based area that you are living. There are five place-based communities around Australia, so Playford’s not the only one. In the Northern Territory there’s income management and that’s the majority of people, and there are other Aboriginal communities that are on income management as well. In SA there’s also income management in the APY lands and in Ceduna. So when did those laws come into effect? They came into effect in Playford in 2012 and initially, only people who were recommended by a social worker went on income management. But in 2013, they introduced a trigger which put all young people who were on the unreasonable to live at home payment onto income management. Other young people put on CIM include people under 25 who have just been released from jail and sought a crisis payment and people under 16 who have a special benefits payment. That’s just an automatic trigger, so if you’re on that specific youth payment in one of those areas, then you get automatically put on income management no matter what your kind of situation is.
What are the justifications that they’ve made around introducing that policy and applying it to young people? The justifications are that young people on the unreasonable to live at home payment are considered vulnerable youth. In the definition of vulnerable it says that you have to be basically not looking after yourself, be at risk of homelessness and I think there are a couple of other specifications.
I don’t see how you can take a blanket approach to young people and automatically classify them as vulnerable just because they have a difficult family situation. Is there a transitioning program off of CIM? Is that the goal – to move out of it? That’s really interesting because you don’t automatically get off it until you turn 22 when you become ‘independent’ under Centrelink. People on the unreasonable to live at home payment are between 16 to 22 so it seems as though the majority of people get off it by turning 22 rather than actually meeting any of the standards. You can get off it if you go into full-time study and you can also get off it if you have less than 25 per cent of your payment paid to you over a certain amount of consecutive weeks – basically if you’ve got full-time work. You can get off it if your circumstances are so extreme that income management wouldn’t work for you and also if you can’t comprehend it. But, in reality, it’s very hard to get off income management if you’re
in that youth trigger, especially by getting into full-time employment or full-time study when you’re living in an area that has relatively few opportunities. You can’t be a part-time student and get off income management; you have to be a full-time student. A lot of people on income management are studying parttime and working part-time and they’re not seen as ‘productive’ enough. Young people are often seen as dangerous and in areas of low employment, they threaten the idea of ‘good citizens’ being employed and place the blame on the government. What have been some of the ramifications for the young people that you’ve talked to in your research? I’ve only spoken to two young people, but both of them had a lot of trouble paying their rent under this policy. What it does is it separates your payment into two halves and youth allowance is only $426.80 a fortnight so the separating in half makes it really difficult. Both of the young people I spoke to, their landlords didn’t accept Centrepay, Centrelink’s automatic payment of rent.
Because they didn’t have enough discretionary income to pay their rent out of their other non-income managed funds, they effectively had to work out other ways. One of them got into significant debt and another had to work out another way to get around that problem, so she ended up buying her parent’s groceries on the BasicsCard and then they would
give her money to pay her rent. It becomes very difficult, especially with Centrepay – even if your landlord does accept Centrepay, half of your payment might not be enough to cover your rent anyway so you would then have to figure out how to transfer the extra $30 or whatever to cover your rent. It’s just really bureaucratic and weird. It’s very hard to save any money.
I actually think that these young people are being classified as vulnerable but this policy can create financial vulnerabilities for people because they don’t have access to emergency funds. They both said that it affected their sense of confidence in themselves, because when you’re told you’re vulnerable, if you hadn’t conceptualised yourself that way beforehand, you suddenly feel as though you’re not worthy and you’re not able to look after yourself. It kind of creates a sense of people feeling like they are not the people that they should be in the world, through no fault of their own. You mentioned resistance to the policy? I’m looking at the Stop Income Management in Playford (SIMPla) group, and also one of the young women who I spoke to has been very vocal about her experience on income management. I’m looking at the way that there’s that organised resistance, this group that are talking about this issue and about how it affects people, but also about how young people resist these classifications, how they prove that they’re not
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vulnerable, how they speak out against the classifications that they’ve been given that they don’t think they fit into.
you’re on this unreasonable to live at home payment and that’s why you’ve been classified as vulnerable.
SIMPla is really interesting because it’s quite hard for young people to speak out about income management because it involves exposing your family situation. So resistance is actually quite hard for young people because they might not want to upset their family and they might not want to expose that section of their life, or they might not want to experience the stigma that comes with income management.
I think it’s really interesting that that group of young people have been chosen as automatic people for income management, because prior to them being put on it in 2013, there were very, very small numbers of people on income management in those place-based communities.
Both of the young women said that they had heard people refer to people on income management as drug addicts, as not being able to manage their money and so in some ways they were quite confused about why they’d been put on it. Both of them also didn’t get it explained to them adequately, so Centrelink said it’s being trialled in your area or it’s compulsory in your area instead of saying that
When Labor introduced income management into these placebased communities, it was an expansion of this policy outside of the NT. It was still primarily Aboriginal people on income management, and then they expanded it into these five communities in order to expand it into non-indigenous communities, to may I say it, seem less racist. Then there were just no people on the program. For the compulsory mechanism you had to be referred by a social worker. For one, social workers might have a different perception of whether or not people can manage their money
than an automatic trigger service and also, social workers might have not wanted to put people on CIM because it’s really quite hard to get off, and they might have said, just go on voluntarily.
I guess my perspective is that young people have been chosen because they’re less likely to speak out, they’re not an organised group, they are dispersed. The only reason that they’re on that payment is because of their family situation so there’s nothing to connect young people. I just think that they’ve been scapegoated under this policy as a way to look less racist. That’s my perspective on it. Has it actually been successful at all? Has it been proven to work? Well, the evidence on income management is very insubstantial; in no studies has it been definitely proven to work. For some people it works, for some people it doesn’t work. Most people on CIM don’t have the same success as people on voluntary income management,
Image taken from the Stop Income Management in SA (formerly SIMPla) Facebook page
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so people who choose to go on it have success, probably because they’ve given their consent. Is it part of a wider budget management independent money management scheme? Are there other resources? There’s financial counselling services but I think that not everybody necessarily gets recommended to those services. One of the young women I spoke to said that she only got recommended to go on that financial counselling course after she made a big fuss about the issues with the rent. The reality is that these young people don’t necessarily need it; they don’t necessarily not have budgeting skills. The only reason they’ve been put on it is because of their payment and in the case of one of the young people that I spoke to, she’d been living out of home for four years prior to being put on income management. She moved into Playford and because she was on unreasonable to live at home youth allowance, she got put on income management. It’s really interesting to hear young people speak out about income management and their experiences on it, because it rarely matches up with the government rationale for putting them on it in the first place. Often, they come from low income households where they’ve learnt budgeting skills from a young age. All of the studies show that young people from low income backgrounds are much more likely to be debt averse, are much more likely to budget and spend their money more wisely that people from wealthier areas.
What do you think should or can be done in this area? I think continuing to put forward the voices of young people in the Playford area and always criticising the reasons why this policy has been introduced. Because, if all the evidence says that it doesn’t work, then why on earth is it continuing to be expanded? Actually, the Senate just passed the new Healthy Welfare trial in Ceduna. That is a little bit different to income management but it quarantines 80 per cent of income. The aim of it is to be expanded to all people on all welfare payments. They pitch it as a non-discriminatory income management but the funny thing is that it’s still being trialled in predominantly Aboriginal communities, in Ceduna. It’s questionable whether or not it will actually be expanded to all welfare recipients. Does it have a budget saving measure for the government? Nope, it’s really expensive – it’s actually one of the most expensive. Out of all of the welfare measures in the last budget that were all cut, income management was expanded. It’s really bizarre and I kind of look at the reasons why people would be put on income management – it all exists around this idea that people on welfare can’t manage their money, people on welfare are addicted, people on welfare can’t look after their children. It’s just all of these stereotypes that I think exist to basically discourage people from being on welfare to begin with. Income management gives people the freedom to look down on you.
It goes against the idea that welfare is a safety net and it kind of suggests that people on welfare are lazy, when the reality is that they’re just going about their lives in low income areas that don’t have much employment. If you’re coming from an unstable family background and you don’t have a job and you live in the northern suburbs it can be sometimes quite hard to access education. What avenues would you recommend young people use to speak up about their experiences or to advocate on their own behalf? There’s SIMPla, that group exists if people want to speak out in that activist kind of way, but I think if people question and challenge their categorisation on the payment and make sure that young people get educated about what their rights are under income management – what they can get exemptions for. It’s very bureaucratic and quite difficult but you can get approval to spend your money in different places – like if you wanted to buy something off Gumtree then you can. So I would say that young people on this policy should get educated about income management – look up the rules, look up appeals, you can appeal every three months and Centrelink might not tell you that. They didn’t tell the two young women that I spoke to about that. There’s also other ways to speak out about it, one of the young women has spoken out on radio and written articles about it but it is difficult.
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Regional voices This month we’ve been getting out around the state to talk to young people, with a Youth Employment Symposium (YES) in the Barossa and a consultation in the Riverland on people’s experiences with their FLO program. Here’s a quick summary of some of the issues that were raised.
Transport was a major issue for many people in both the Riverland and the Barossa. In the Barossa, only a small number of private bus services travel to other regions each day which is both expensive and inconvenient. Affordable public transport in the Riverland is almost nonexistant. So having your own car and the money to buy petrol, pay for registration and insurance is essential to travel around the district or beyond for work or study. If you don’t have your own car then you need someone who is able to drive you to work. This leads young people to feel isolated, frustrated and restricted by their geographical location and lack of options. For FLO students in the Riverland, certain courses are delivered at different campuses at set times, so reduced access to transport also limits the range of subjects that are available.
Employment was also a huge concern. Searching for suitable employment in the Barossa region is often unsuccessful, with many young people reporting they have been looking for work for two or three years. Not many employers in the region will employ someone under the age of eighteen, leaving the small number of retail businesses the only option for a vast number of young people. Young people in the Barossa also described the impossible situation where employers are asking for young people to have experience in the workplace to be considered for a job. Casualised employment provides no security and the small number of hours that young people have to work and the little that they are paid doesn’t go very far. There is no flexibility in employment and participants felt that they can’t ask for time off or arrange different shifts as this may impact on their jobs. Underemployment is another significant issue and often young people have to find more than one job just to try and get by.
FLO students in the Riverland felt that they had been shut out of the school system, often by inflexible rules or limited understanding of external circumstances.
“You can’t be who you are”
“That’s them losing out on our education”
“Some teachers are good but the ones I’ve had have made me want to come here [to FLO]”
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“Teachers need to treat us as individuals, and seek to understand what’s going on outside of school and how this impacts on our learning”
Barossa YES – What would help? Young people identified what would assist them to find work and/or study while living in the Barossa area. Some of the suggestions were at a personal level, some were at a school and community level and others were at a government level. • Businesses should be encouraged to the Barossa. • Government to bring public transport back to the area, including reinstituting the train service or introduce a public bus service. • Job assistance programs including assistance with resume and job letter writing and job searches. • Engaging in work experience. • Employers to employ more young people. • Programs to assist young people to learn to drive that are subsidised or free. • Peer mentoring and support programs. • Youth groups (YACs). • Government funded career counsellors in public schools in the region.
Key Questions from the Riverland FLO consult: What are the most important things to you? • Student voice – having your opinions valued and respected • Flexibility • Access
What needs to change the most? • More programs and opportunities • Increased access to transport • More funding to do the courses you want to do
What are your ideas? • Hands on or practical subjects like building a veggie garden • Getting your driver’s license • Being able to choose your case manager
What needs to continue? • FLO - it’s important to have an alternative to school
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Handy Hansard Hansard is the official report of the debates and proceedings of the SA parliament. We like it because we can see who’s been saying what about youth affairs and young people. You can access it yourself and search for terms, but we look at it regularly so we will provide a snapshot for you in this section of the newsletter. In late September, the Tea Tree Gully Council voted to discontinue the HIVE 12-Twentyfive youth service. The Hon Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability MLC raised the issue in the lower house, even though the Hon Minister Bettison was not present. We will keep you posted about her reply. If you’re keen to read the whole report, you can access it here.
Hon Kelly Vincent explains why she has raised the HIVE 12-Twentyfive youth service in parliament: It has been brought to my attention by a constituent about an excellent HIVE youth service currently offered in the Tea Tree Gully area in partnership with several other organisations and that this service supports approximately 300 previously disengaged and disadvantaged young people in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide.
I have been contacted by the mother of one of these young people, who is extremely disappointed that on Tuesday night this week the Tea Tree Gully council voted, with the support of the mayor, to defund HIVE as of December. I understand that HIVE has provided an essential social interaction lifeline for her 16-year-old daughter, a young woman who has multiple and complex health and disability related needs in addition to experiencing severe and ongoing bullying in a range of educational settings. This constituent has told me about how her daughter has gone from being unable to function at school, trying at four separate schools, to being able to attend sewing classes and other social programs at the HIVE without her mother needing to support her. This is an enormous step forward.
I understand that the HIVE is a leading edge in the provision of services to youth in our community. Its collective of services from different organisations makes it unique and highly effective. Young people have a hub where they can access a variety of services they need to help find their way to all sorts of complex issues.
She then addressed some questions to the Minister for Youth: 1.Will the minister intervene in some way in this decision by the council to defund HIVE and explain to the council the importance of providing young South Australians with relevant services where they feel safe and supported, particularly young people who are extremely disengaged?
2. Is the minister concerned that the relatively new Tea Tree Gully mayor does not seem to understand the needs of these young people?
3. If the service does close down, where does the minister suggest this young South Australian and others in similar situations go to find social supports and services?
4. If the minister cannot persuade the Tea Tree Gully council and its mayor to reverse this decision, will she commit to funding the service through the state government’s Office for Youth?
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And the Hon Ian Hunter responded in the Minister’s absence: I thank the honourable member for her most important question. I undertake to take that question to the Minister for Youth in the other place and ask her those questions about whether she is prepared to intervene in the decision made by the Tea Tree Gully council to defund a service, and to seek a response on her behalf.
Opportunities
Oaktree is currently recruiting for two very exciting positions in their SA team: *Projects Team Member *Community Organiser If you're passionate about ending extreme poverty and are able to commit 10hrs/week, check out these positions! For any questions or to apply contact Lauren at l.varo@oaktree.org.
Applications Open to Sail the Tall Ship Young Endeavour! Applications are now open for the 2016 Young Endeavour Youth Development Program. 24 young people will join each 11 or 12 day voyage and will learn the skills to sail a square-rigged tall ship. They will keep watch and take the helm, cook in the galley, navigate using the ship’s charts, and climb the 30 metre mast to set and furl the sails. Young Australians aged 16 to 23 can apply for voyages at youngendeavour.gov.au.
Apply now to join the Campbelltown YAC in 2016! Are you aged 12-25? Do you live, work or study in the Campbelltown council area? Do you want to have a say about what happens in Campbelltown for young people? Apply now to join our energetic and passionate Youth Advisory Committee! For more information on joining the Campbelltown YAC or about any of our upcoming events contact the Youth Development Officer on (08) 8366 9213 or email youth@ campbelltown.sa.gov.au. The Scoop August 2015
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Opportunities HYPA Works is excited to offer a package to assist young people to move into employment through the Australian Government (Department of Education and Training) Youth Employment Pathway Fund. The HYPA Works YEP program package will run across 12 weeks which includes: 1. Career-Prep employability skills workshops 2. Onsite / insight industry tours 3. Work’d Up work experience placement The first set of workshops will be delivered late Nov 2015 in Southern Adelaide. If you have anyone suitable and interested please contact Jodie Nicholls or Matt Pill, HYPA Works Team Leader on 8405 8540.
Multicultural Mentoring and Law Awareness Workshop & Volleyball Tournament!
Would you like to know more about the law? How it affects you or your significant others? Or discuss any issues affecting multicultural youth? Red Cross, in partnership with the Central Legal Services, will be running a Law Awareness workshop and mentoring for Multicultural Youth aged 14-25 years old. A volleyball tournament will follow after the workshop . Four teams of five or more in each team. The winners of the tournament will take home a surprise prize! For more information or to register by Monday 2nd of November please contact: Achuil Wol 0401 160 294 8100 5417 awol@redcross.org.au
Date: Friday 6th of Nov. 2015 Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm Venue: Australian Red Cross 212 Pirie St, Adelaide 5000 Cost: FREE!
Country Cabinet: Limestone Coast On 22-24 November 2015, Premier Jay Weatherill and Cabinet Ministers will be visiting the Limestone Coast region as part of the Country Cabinet program. This is the third Country Cabinet meeting of 2015, and provides a chance for locals to attend a public forum, speak directly with ministers in one-on-one meetings, or join the online discussion. A public forum and barbecue will be held at Mount Gambier High School on Sunday 22 November. The event is open to anyone with an interest in the issues that affect the Mount Gambier, Grant, Wattle Range, Robe, Kingston and Naracoorte Lucindale council regions. Find out more on the Your Say website or have a look at our Country Cabinet explainer.
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Opportunities Fully Funded Training in Early Childhood Enhance Training & Recruitment have a limited number of fully funded places for CHC30113, Certicate III in Early Childhood Education and Care. Only 20 places will be available in the East, North and South of Adelaide.
Course Duration: 22 weeks Class Attendance: 3 days per week Start Dates: November 2015
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Australian Survey for Kids and Young People Are you aged 10-18 years? Please complete this survey to share your views on children and young people’s safety in institutions! This survey is part of a study commissioned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, looking at children and young people’s views about safety. It’s completely anonymous, and there are prizes to be won!
City of Unley Your Say 'Living Young' The City of Unley Council has launched a new consultation on their online community engagement hub, Your Say Unley. It’s asking young people ‘how would you spend $10K’ as well as brainstorming ideas about programs to run with and for young people next year. Do you want to see your opportunity for young people here, or do you have an idea for content you’d like to see in The Scoop? Get in touch with us at yacsa@yacsa.com.au.
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