The needs of young people aged 15–19 and the youth service response

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Howard Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Youth Service

scholarly journals Barriers to Youth Literacy: Sociological and Canadian Insights

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Tilleczek ◽  
Valerie Campbell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
High School Completion ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Literacy Scores

This paper explores the barriers in youth literacy with qualitative interviews with 22 young people and 22 youth service providers from Prince Edward Island, Canada. It then compares these perspectives with a review of literatures on youth literacy. The paper outlines a sociological framework for the study of youth literacy that makes visible the complex cultural nests of youth within which becoming literate is negotiated.  Rather than relying solely on individual literacy scores as the only measure of if and to what level young people are literate in contemporary society, the study addressed how barriers  are encountered and negotiated. The findings show that barriers exist in multiple contexts in school, community and family and that they are not easily interpreted or predictable. Even high school completion does not guarantee literacy for some youth and both service providers and young people provide similar and disparate perspectives on barriers and possibilities for better support.

Young People, Citizenship and the Third Way: A Role for the Youth Service?

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hall ◽  
Howard Williamson ◽  
Amanda Coffey
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Youth Service

scholarly journals Hospitalitas Kristen dalam Pelayanan Kategorial Pemuda Kristen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indriyani Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Youth Ministry ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Church Youth ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Church ◽  
Demand Service

during the time of growth and development, youth needs a place to share their experience in family, school, church, and society. The church needs to evaluate the youth ministry that has been doing, so the church can see the effectivitas of each event they did to reach young people. Youths are called and sent to participate in every ministry in the midst of the church. Being a participatory, creative and innovative youth in the midst of the congregation, not a youth who must always be served or demand service from people around him (church). The youth service in the church can be interpreted as that youth are the church itself as individuals who have experienced the work of salvation and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, so it means that the presence of the church youth in his life is a picture of the church's presence itself, with the duties and responsibilities of the church that has been inherent automatically in him. Youth have the same duties and responsibilities as other congregations. The method used is a qualitative method.

scholarly journals Service user experience of the Norfolk youth service

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
David Heavens ◽  
Joanne Hodgekins ◽  
Rebecca Lower ◽  
Joanne Spauls ◽  
Benjamin Carroll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Service User Experience

Purpose There is an international drive to improve mental health services for young people. This study aims to investigate service user experience of a youth mental health service in Norfolk, UK. In addition to suggesting improvements to this service, recommendations are made for the development of youth mental health services in general. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods approach was used. Quantitative data from satisfaction questionnaires were analysed using descriptive statistics and compared between two time points. A semi-structured interview was used to generate qualitative data. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes in the interview transcripts and triangulation was used to synthesise quantitative and qualitative data. Findings Service users appeared satisfied with the service. Significant improvements in satisfaction were found between two time points. Qualitative analysis identified three main themes that were important to service users, including support, information and personhood. Practical implications Recommendations for the development of youth mental health services are provided. Although these are based on findings from the Norfolk youth service, they are likely to apply to other mental health services for young people. Originality/value Mental health care for young people requires significant improvement. The Norfolk youth service is one of the first services of its kind in the UK. The findings from this study might be helpful to consider in the development of youth mental health services across the world.

Collaborative care in ‘Youth One Stop Shops’ in New Zealand: Hidden, time-consuming, essential

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Garrett ◽  
Susan Pullon ◽  
Sonya Morgan ◽  
Eileen McKinlay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Patient Contact ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Specialist Care ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
One Stop

Young people in New Zealand have high morbidity but low service utilization rates. Dedicated youth services ‘Youth One Stop Shops’ provide ‘wraparound’ health and social care. However, little is understood about how staff within these services interact with each other or with external agencies to provide this specialist care. This article reports on volume and type of internal and inter-agency health and social service staff–staff interactions, to better understand elements of potential collaboration in day-to-day practice. An observational, case-study approach was utilized. Four dedicated youth services recorded data over three-month periods about a selected number of high-use clients. Youth service staff recorded all interactions with colleagues within their organization and staff from external services. A large volume of non-patient contact work was revealed, with a high proportion of ‘complex/involved’ interactions recorded. The range and diversity of external agencies with which youth service staff interacted with to meet the needs of young people was extensive and complex. The focus on ‘information sharing’ and ‘complex/involved’ interactions demonstrates a well-coordinated, wraparound service delivery model. Current funding formulae take inadequate account of the volume of non-patient contact work that youth services provide for high-needs young people.

scholarly journals The effect of a youth mental health service model on access to secondary mental healthcare for young people aged 14–25 years

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Maxwell ◽  
Obianuju Ugochukwu ◽  
Tim Clarke ◽  
Brioney Gee ◽  
Emmet Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Youth Service

Aims and methodThe Norfolk Youth Service was created in 2012 in response to calls to redesign mental health services to better meet the needs of young people. The new service model transcends traditional boundaries by creating a single, ‘youth friendly’ service for young people aged 14–25 years. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the transition to this new model on patterns of referral, acceptance and service use. We analysed routinely collected data on young people aged 14–25 years referred for secondary mental healthcare in Norfolk before and after implementation of the youth mental health service. The number of referrals, their age and gender, proportion of referrals accepted and average number of service contacts per referral by age pre- and post-implementation were compared.ResultsReferrals increased by 68% following implementation of the new service model, but the proportion of referrals accepted fell by 27 percentage points. Before implementation of the youth service, there was a clear discrepancy between the peak age of referral and the age of those seen by services. Following implementation, service contacts were more equitable across ages, with no marked discontinuity at age 18 years.Clinical implicationsOur findings suggest that the transformation of services may have succeeded in reducing the ‘cliff edge’ in access to mental health services at the transition to adulthood. However, the sharp rise in referrals and reduction in the proportion of referrals accepted highlights the importance of considering possible unintended consequences of new service models.Declaration of interestsNone.

scholarly journals The British Youth Service in 1990–2010

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Dmitriy O. Kataman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Specific Instrument

The present article examines the modernization of the Youth Service – a specific instrument in the implementation of state policy in the sphere of youth socialization in the UK. The author aimed to reveal the causes of modernization, which was achieved after the analysis of statutory documents of British authorities concerning young people and children; information taken from the British government’s official website about cooperation with voluntary organizations; works of foreign and national authors: experts in the implementation of state policy in the sphere of youth socialization – Anthony Giddens and Tom Wiley; researchers of the evolution of youth policy in foreign countries in the second half of the 20th century – A.A. Popov and V.S. Efimov, and researchers of the history of the British Youth Service creation – S.V. Fomenko and Graham Brotherton. Despite the existing opinion about the ultimate formation of a “democratic approach” to the evaluation of the place and role of young people in society by the middle of the 1990s, the author tends to consider the middle of the 1990s not as the end, but as the beginning of the rethinking of the British government’s position towards young people. As a result, the efforts of state and non-state social services began to focus on assistance not only to youth from the “risk group”, but also to such categories of young people which are oriented to active work, study, professional growth. Hence, the specific instrument of state policy implementation in the sphere of British youth socialization – the Youth Service – had also exercised radical modernization in 1990–2010. Among the reasons for the modernization, the author reckons the following: (1) the shift of youth policy emphasis from teenagers and young people towards infancy according to the loss of personal life benchmarks together with the lack of the “ontological security” feeling; (2) the extension in the domain of government’s actions on youth problems in a “horizontal” direction. In the author’s opinion, the first reason contributed to the legislative recognition of such a phenomenon as Children’s and Youth Trusts, which at the beginning of the 2000s opened a perspective for the development of an intersectoral approach in the solution of youth problems at the local level and led the trusts to become the major structure, at the local level, that operates a contact between various agencies influencing the youth socialization process. The second reason removed the sole responsibility of the Department of Education for the implementation of state youth policy allocating it between other departments.

Youth Work Service Providers' Attitudes Towards Computerized CBT for Adolescents

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Fleming ◽  
Sally Merry
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Service ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Service Staff

Background:Attitudes of social service providers towards computerized CBT (cCBT) might affect use of cCBT by their clients and may provide important insights that should be considered in dissemination. There is no literature exploring the attitudes of providers of youth work services towards cCBT despite the likelihood of them having close relationships with young people at high risk of mental ill-health.Method:Focus groups and semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a total of 40 providers (21 youth workers and social service staff providing alternative schooling, justice or other intensive youth work programmes to adolescents, 6 youth service managers, 2 trainers, 5 peer leaders and 6 trainees).Results:Participants considered supporting young people who were distressed to be an important part of their role. They were generally interested in cCBT, especially those who were more mental health oriented and those who saw a cCBT programme in action. Their greatest concerns regarding cCBT related to it possibly displacing human contact, while advantages were seen as its appeal to young people and its potential therapeutic power. They would utilize cCBT in a range of ways, with many wishing to offer it in group settings. Training and resources would be required for them to use cCBT.Conclusions:Many providers of youth work services would like to be involved in the use of cCBT; this might extend the reach of cCBT to vulnerable young people. They would wish to utilize cCBT in ways that fit their current approaches. Providers’ opinions need to be considered in the dissemination of cCBT.

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