Sentences with phrase «young carers research»

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Activities over the three - year life - span of the network included conducting research into Young Carers in the Niagara Region, with the results of the study published by Dr. Heather Chalmers, PhD from the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University, St. Catharines.

Barnardo's research with practitioners working to support young carers has shown that caring can take a huge toll on children's mental health, as well as their achievement at school.

As part of the research published today (Wednesday, December 6), a YouGov poll * found that 40 per cent of teachers were not confident they would be able to identify a young carer in their class.

The conference provides an opportunity to hear about new research and insight about young people in kinship care and kinship carers.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

The aim of this research project is to develop guidelines for parents and carers on how to prevent depression and anxiety disorders in their adolescent and young adult children that can be widely promoted in the community and to some targeted groups.

The 2011 census identifies over 200,000 young carers in the UK, but research by the BBC in 2010 indicates that there are as many as 700,000 young carers living in the UK.

We're extremely grateful to the young people and kinship carers who shared their experiences with us, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for supporting the research and the authors of the report.

What's clear is that there's a desperate need for things to be done differently — our research shows that kinship carers need more support, and that young people who've grown up in kinship care are falling behind their peers in the general population.

«While it's clear that improving the mental health of parents and carers of the next generation of Aboriginal young people must be a priority for closing the gap, existing research indicates that Aboriginal parents often feel unable to access mental health services for fear of their children being removed,» said the study's lead author Dr Anna Williamson.

They also engage with policy - makers, parent carers and children and young people as part of their work to research and support policy and practice development.