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Title: Regional Youth Services Collaboration Sarah McGhee and Magnum Tuipulotu


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Regional Youth Services CollaborationSarah
McGhee and Magnum Tuipulotu
  • Presentation to Involve 08
  • Wednesday 2 July

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A response to youth gangs The Auckland Youth
Support Network
  • In November 2005, a co-ordinated response to the
    reported gang activity in Counties Manukau was
    implemented
  • Auckland Youth Support Network led the response
    on the ground
  • Evidence-based approach
  • Formal research and literature based review
  • Interviewed - Community based participants
    including Social Service agencies, school
    principals, community representatives
  • Auckland Government Agency staff - Police,
    Ministry of Education, Child, Youth and Family
  • Youth Gang Members- Current and former
  • Non gang associated young people
  • Looked at what worked and didnt work in other
    parts of the world as well as history of gangs in
    NZ

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Improving Outcomes for Young People in Counties
Manukau
  • In September 2006 the government announced the
    cross-government Action Plan Improving Outcomes
    for Young People in Counties Manukau
  • The plan provides
  • systematic
  • integrated
  • intense
  • targeted commitment to the children, young
    people, families and communities of Counties
    Manukau
  • The 26 point plan was developed by the Auckland
    Youth Support Network and comprises a
    three-pronged approach to addressing the
    presenting issues and to improve outcomes for
    young people and reduce youth offending in
    Counties Manukau

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Action Plan
  • Crisis covers young people picked up by Police
    outside of business hours
  • Intervention high risk recidivist youth
    offenders
  • Prevention children, young people and their
    families who are at risk of poor outcomes

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Role of Ministry of Youth Development
4 action points
  • Implement and review the Turn Your Life Around
    Programme in Counties Manukau (I)
  • Support for the community-based youth workers in
    Counties Manukau (P)
  • Identify youth support service gaps across
    Counties Manukau for future action (P)
  • Dialogue with young people youth engagement
    project (P)

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What young people said.
Family
Parents
Police
Accessibility
Church
gangs
Lack of Service Awareness
Young Person in Counties Manukau
Intimidating
DA
Violence
Not youth-friendly
Youthline
School
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How can youth services RELATE?
  • They need to link well with other services to
    look at whole needs of young people and families
    (including co-ordinating and networking with
    other youth services)
  • They need to engage with the community and young
    people in their own environments
  • They need to create environments that reflect
    youth culture and local community, and particular
    services need to include recreation or hang out
    spaces
  • Youth participation in design of youth services
    is key to their success
  • Transport needs to be provided for young people
    to access to youth services

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How can youth workers RELATE?
  • There was a high degree of accord between focus
  • groups about the staff who they envisaged working
    at
  • these centres. Repeatedly, groups stated that
    they
  • wanted the services to be provided by
  • other young people
  • people with heaps of life experience
  • young people who had been through the issues they
    were helping people with
  • people who relate to young people in how they
    talk
  • people who dress like young people
  • people who talk slowly and make young people feel
    relaxed

Staff would include roaming youth workers who
talk to people and make them feel welcome, while
being able to monitor what young people were
doing and keep everyone safe.
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Youth Engagement Report in action
  • A group of young people from the focus groups
    created a project team. They developed key
    messages from the report and delivered a
    presentation to the Auckland Youth Support
    Network. The report has become a valuable
    resource
  • Ministry of Youth Development takes opportunities
    to share information from the report wherever
    possible. We still connect with members of the
    project team

In addition we established a monthly Youth Worker
Support Cluster with the twenty three youth
workers appointed as part of the Action Plan.
These youth workers are based in the same
communities as the young people who participated
in the focus groups and are currently developing
their youth participation processes. They share
best practice, peer supervision, camaraderie,
ideas, projects and collaborate on events.
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