Sentences with phrase «indigenous youth and their families»

We need better systems for accountability including better coordination of data systems, greater engagement of Indigenous youth and their families and communities.

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They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.

That's why, in 2008, the Martin Family Initiative launched the Aboriginal Youth Entrepreneurship Program (AYEP), a program for Grades 11 and 12 students, designed to introduce Indigenous students to the wide range of business opportunities available within the Canadian economy.

These schools were seen by colonial, and later federal, authorities as the ideal system for educating Indigenous youth because they removed children from the influences of traditional family and culture.

They provide a range of services for children, youth and families such as mental health programs, indigenous services and many more.

«Introducing a single Act would create a whole - of - system «paradigm shift,» resulting in a trauma - informed, therapeutic approach that prioritises the needs of children, young people and their families, and addresses over-incarcertaion of Indigenous youth.»

The individuals and organisations releasing statements yesterday were in favour of a wide - ranging examination of the NT Juvenile Justice system, with some, including the Change the Record coalition, the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) pointing out that the problems were not confined to one Australian Territory, and the Commission should lead to a national examination of both the conditions of juvenile detention and the factors playing into the unacceptably high number of Indigenous children and youth in prison.

Similar messages will no doubt be among the many discussions to be tweeted out across Australia during the third annual Indigenous Health May Day Twitter festival to be held this Thursday, 12 May, with the theme of youth and families, and suicide prevention.

$ 212.3 million to the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to assist with welfare payment reforms housing and land as well as additional support for children and families including the establishment of a diversionary scheme for Indigenous youth from the ages 12 - 18 to provide an alternative to alcohol and substance misuse;

Strategies: Develop policy in Indigenous Youth Forums; education initiatives that see the Education Department of Western Australia and department of Family and Children's services reporting all Indigenous outcomes to Council; providing access to support services such as sport and recreational cultural activities and initiatives.

Youth and Related family Issues: Enabling Indigenous youth to participate in the «planning, delivery and management» of their own lives via policy, education, family and theYouth and Related family Issues: Enabling Indigenous youth to participate in the «planning, delivery and management» of their own lives via policy, education, family and theyouth to participate in the «planning, delivery and management» of their own lives via policy, education, family and the law.

Strategies: Promote collaboration on specific issues (such as health, mental health, youth, elderly, domestic violence) among diverse interest groups in communities; identify and publicise successful cases of community based solutions and positive management of social development; support community based advocacy of school curriculum and practices; boost mentoring, homework support and family support for Indigenous secondary and post - secondary students; negotiate with stakeholders to improve school to work transitions programs.

The group issued a statement saying that, despite Government assurances to the contrary, Budget cuts to Indigenous Affairs were impairing the ability of community - controlled organisations to deliver frontline services in critical areas such as legal assistance, family violence, children, youth and women, drug and alcohol misuse, and health.

Children, Youth and Family Services, in partnership with Child Adolescent Mental Health Services, has established «Indigenous Well - Being» workers to provide mental health assessment, follow up services and referral for Indigenous young people (including those with cognitive disabilities) in the State's two juvenile detention centres.