Youth and Education Sector News
News from across the sector
Discussing tutors being deployed across schools
to discus tutors being deployed across primary, secondary and specialist schools to ensure no student is left behind in the wake of the coronavirus. (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of the largest initiative in the state’s history to provide students with extra individual support.
Topic: Victorian Schools 4100 Tutor Program
Time: Nov 30, 2020 07:30 PM Australia/Melbourne
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Meeting ID: 969 4278 4855
Yacvic have complied the highlights for young people from the 2020-21 Victorian Government Budget
- $75m for the historic announcement to extend supports to young people from 18 to 21 in out-of-home care (after 20 years of lobbying by many colleagues in the youth sector)
- $3b to build and upgrade schools
- $2b for tailored support to young people, particularly disabled young people, to catch-up on school work
- $5.3b to build 12,000 more social housing and affordable homes
- $155.4m to support young people to gain training and skills to find new opportunities, including a continuation of free TAFE
- $47.8m to boost early intervention in youth mental health
- $21.8m to expand the HOPE suicide prevention program state-wide
- $16m to create peer mental health workers
- $619.4m to kickstart job creation
- $28.5m to expand existing supports for the wellbeing and mental health of students, including the Navigator program, LOOKOUT, Headspace mental health training, and the Mental Health Practitioners in secondary schools program
- $3.8m to deliver Latrobe Youth Space projects and services, the Regional Presence project in Warrnambool, Swan Hill, Morwell and Ballarat, the Le Mana Pasifika Youth Project to support Pasifika young people in Melbourne’s south-east and west, and the Marram Nganyin Aboriginal Youth Mentoring Project at five Aboriginal organisations across the state
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
Schools and parents can promote respect and equality by encouraging children to read books that promote boys and girls as equals. Check out the children's booklist in the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence toolkit
https://www.mav.asn.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/26526/FINAL-TOOLKIT_30-OCTOBER-2020.pdf
YDAS is launching Map Your Future, a free online program supporting disabled young people to set goals and get the right supports.
You do not have to be a NDIS participant to complete Map Your Future.
Teenagers to Take Over ABC Melbourne with help of VicHealth
The ABC has announced the 31 young winners of the inaugural Takeover Melbourne storytelling competition, a new initiative from the ABC in partnership with VicHealth, Resilient Melbourne and the Centre for Multicultural Youth, amplifying the voices of young Melburnians (aged 12 to 18 years).
https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-and-resources/media-releases/teenagers-to-take-over-abc-melb
The CALD Communities Taskforce Survey
Are you aged 18-25 and living in Victoria? The CALD Communities Taskforce wants you to complete a short survey about your experiences during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It's anonymous and participants will receive a $20 gift card for their time. https://bit.ly/36Vp4k4
Learning from lockdown: inclusive education for students with complex and challenging needs
Watch this webinar recording to hear how Megan’s practical experience working with children with complex and challenging needs alongside her important research in distance learning give a unique perspective to help this cohort of children through a crisis period, and what we can take forward from Megan’s lockdown learnings.
https://www.aracy.org.au/publications-resources/area?command=record&id=309&cid=10