The Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) have published a fact sheet designed to assist workers who are engaged with young people from a refugee background. The fact sheet contains facts and figures, as well as information about the unique experiences and challenges faced by refugee young people as they start out in the Australian community.
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Dovetail - News RSS Feed April 27, 2012
This week: research focus on early childhood development and wellbeing; sector leaders react to government moves to establish a child and youth commissioner; homelessness linked with childhood abuse and neglect; and, Australians recognise a national drinking problem, and more:
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Dovetail - News RSS Feed April 20, 2012
The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) are coordinating the development of a national plan to improve the wellbeing of children and young people. A number of activities are in the pipeline, including a review of evidence for effective intervention with children and young people, and consultation with children, young people, parents and workers.
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Hon Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Grassroots support services for vulnerable children and their families will benefit from access to a $5 million funding boost from the Australian Government.
Organisations working in the community across Australia will be able to apply for a one-off...
Queensland Alliance Newsletter April 2012
Dovetail - News RSS Feed April 13, 2012
The Youth Advocacy Centre (YAC) offer free legal assistance to young people who live in or around Brisbane, as well as some phone support for young people throughout the rest of Queensland. They also provide training for youth workers, social workers and others in the helping professions right across Queensland, to help understand what the law is for young people and people who...
Dovetail - News RSS Feed April 13, 2012
The Australian Institute of Family Studies have published a paper titled "Is resilience still a useful concept when working with children and young people?" The paper critically considers the rise of the concept of resilience, from an antidote to deficit-based strategies of the past, through to what the authors infer has become somewhat of a "buzz word" - used so frequently, that its...
Australian Government Treasury - NFP Reform Consultation
Under the Government’s plan to secure a clean energy future, a carbon pricing mechanism will apply from 1 July 2012. This will cover pollution from stationary energy, waste, rail, domestic aviation and shipping, industrial processes and fugitive emissions.
An effective carbon price will apply to fuels used in domestic aviation, marine and ra fuels...
