Learning about sex and relationships among migrant and refugee young people in Sydney, Australia: ‘I never got the talk about the birds and the bees’

Drawing on the perspectives of young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) people who have experienced homelessness across metropolitan Adelaide and Sydney, Australia, the article outlines many of the challenges and barriers that confronted them. We argue that traditional views in policy and practice that treat homelessness as a homogeneous category are detrimental to this young cohort. With more young people identifying as LGBTIQ, a greater number of them are seeking services, support and housing assistance. Yet, as we highlight, this has had the effect of a shortage of suitable and safe accommodation and support to assist young LGBTIQ people. This shortfall further entrenches marginalisation and exclusion for this young group.

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Urban children’s connections to nature and environmental behaviors differ with age and gender

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0255421 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (7) ◽

pp. e0255421

Author(s):

Ryan J. Keith ◽

Lisa M. Given ◽

John M. Martin ◽

Dieter F. Hochuli

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Age Differences ◽

School Students ◽

Environmental Behaviors ◽

Differential Functioning ◽

Strongly Connected ◽

And Gender ◽

Demographic Patterns ◽

Meaningful Connections ◽

Sydney Australia

Global conservation is increasingly reliant on young people forming meaningful connections with urban nature. However, interactions with nearby nature do not inspire all children and adolescents living in cities to act pro-environmentally. Our survey of over 1,000 school students from Sydney, Australia, revealed that 28% of respondents maintained strong nature connections. Younger students (aged 8–11) were more strongly connected with nature than their older peers (aged 12–14), and environmental behaviors were negatively associated with increasing age. Differences between boys and girls were less consistent, resulting in part from differential functioning of questionnaire items. Regardless, girls were more willing than boys to volunteer for conservation. Our findings suggest that policies designed to strengthen urban children’s nature connections will be most effective if they explicitly address the “adolescent dip” and other emerging demographic patterns, thereby ensuring all young people reap the health, wellbeing, and conservation benefits of connecting with nature.

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Artifacts, Identity and Youth: A Cultural Intervention with Pacific Islander Young People Who Offend in Western Sydney, Australia

Curator The Museum Journal ◽

10.1111/cura.12116 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

pp. 313-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Meredith Blake ◽

Marg Liddell ◽

Supriya Singh

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Pacific Islander ◽

Cultural Intervention ◽

Sydney Australia

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Breaking the Conflict Cycle, Building Peaceful Communities: Participatory Photography and Storytelling With African Diasporas in Sydney

Journal of Communication Inquiry ◽

10.1177/0196859918784972 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 423-443 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valentina Baú

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Great Lakes ◽

Great Lakes Region ◽

African Great Lakes ◽

Participatory Photography ◽

Sydney Australia

Even after resettling in a new country, the trauma and resentment caused by the conflict experienced in their homeland are passed on from generation to generation among diaspora communities. One of the factors that perpetuate the conflict in their new reality is the ethnic separation that continues to be upheld and reinforced, from parents to children. This article discusses the experience of a participatory photography project that brought together young people from the Congolese, Rwandan, Burundian, and Ugandan communities living in Sydney (Australia), whose lives are still impacted by the legacy of the conflicts that have been ravaging the African Great Lakes region. This initiative, which wanted to provide a space to encourage communication between different groups and enable the promotion of peace between communities starting from the youth, is analyzed here, and reflections are offered on the use of this method with diaspora groups.

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Young people at risk of transitioning to injecting drug use in Sydney, Australia: social disadvantage and other correlates of higher levels of exposure to injecting

Health & Social Care in the Community ◽

10.1111/hsc.12145 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 200-207 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Toby Lea ◽

Joanne Bryant ◽

Jeanne Ellard ◽

John Howard ◽

Carla Treloar

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Young People ◽

Drug Use ◽

Social Disadvantage ◽

Injecting Drug Use ◽

Sydney Australia

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Redfern Kids Connect

Information Technology and Indigenous People ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-298-5.ch040 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 302-304

Author(s):

Ryan Sengara

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Young People ◽

Crime Rates ◽

The Political ◽

Economic Disadvantage ◽

Saturday Morning ◽

Aboriginal Australia ◽

Community Project ◽

High Crime ◽

Sydney Australia

Redfern Kids Connect is a volunteer-based community project running each Saturday morning out of the Redfern Computer Centre in inner-west Sydney, Australia. The project has been running consistently since August 2002. The Redfern-Waterloo suburbs of Sydney are widely considered a centre of urban aboriginal Australia and are often in the political and media spotlights. The area experiences high levels of socio-economic disadvantage and social problems, including high crime rates, high incarceration rates, domestic violence and a lack of extra educational and recreational opportunities for young people.

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Lessons Learned at World Youth Day: Collecting Data and Using Postcards at Mass Gatherings

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x00008153 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 273-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Alison Hutton ◽

Allison Roderick ◽

Rebecca Munt

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Violent Behavior ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Mass Gathering ◽

Mass Gatherings ◽

Mobile Mass ◽

The Moment ◽

Access To Food ◽

Sydney Australia

AbstractIntroduction:World Youth Day (WYD) and its associated activities were held in Sydney, Australia from 15–20 July 2008. The aims of this research were to pilot the use of postcards at mass gatherings and to collect baseline data of how young people (age 16–25 years) identify factors that may affect their health and safety when attending mass gatherings.Hypothesis:The concerns of young people in relation to their health and safety at mass gatherings are poorly understood. It was decided that postcards would be an effective method of data collection in the mobile mass gathering environment.Methods:The research setting was the Pilgrim Walk at WYD. Participants on this walk were young people. To measure their health and safety concerns, a postcard was developed using a Likert scale to rank their attitudes on a continuum.Results:Young people stated that staying hydrated, having enough to eat, and being safe in a crowd were important to them. They also indicated that they perceived, overcrowding, getting to and from an event, and violent behavior as the greatest risks to their health and safety at a mass gathering.Conclusions:The problems with postcard distribution at a “mobile” mass gathering have been identified. Even so, results gathered showed that young people were focused on “in the moment” aspects of their health; such as access to food and water. They also had concerns for their safety due to potential overcrowding and/or violent behavior.

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