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Views of children and young people in foster care survey: education
No full textThis paper explores the educational experiences of children and young people living in foster care in Queensland. Findings are drawn from the responses of 845 children and 1180 young people to the 2011 Views of Children and Young People in Foster Care survey, which is a rich source of information about children’s and young people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of their own education. Findings relate to educational status, key markers of educational disadvantage including suspensions and exclusions, and specific problems children and young people experience at school, as well as children’s and young people’s enjoyment of school and aspirations for the future. Information about educational support, including Educational Support Plans and support provided by Child Safety Officers and Community Visitors are also presented. Where relevant, comparisons are made between the 2011 survey results and prior surveys conducted in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Relationships between key educational measures as well as relationships to other important measures of health and placement stability are also explored.
The findings suggest that children and young people continue to experience educational disadvantage, including high rates of suspension and exclusion and a range of problems at school including problems with schoolwork, bullying and behaviour and that these difficulties can be exacerbated by the child protection system, for example, through placement instability. However, there are reasons for optimism. Children and young people are overwhelmingly likely to report that they enjoy school, expect to complete Year 12 and that their teachers generally like their schoolwork. Furthermore, over time, the proportions of young people reporting that they have an Educational Support Plan have grown, and, importantly, they are more likely to report that these plans are helpful. Analyses in relation to a number of educational variables reveal that young people with a plan they consider to be helpful fare better. Children and young people were also positive about the important role that CSOs and CVs are able to play in supporting their education.
While educational disadvantage is an enduring problem, the survey findings provide evidence of progress in key areas and suggestions for how continued improvements may be made
Developing young children's understanding of place-value using multiplication and quotitive division
No full textThis paper focuses on selected findings from a study that explored the use of multiplication and division with 34 five- and six-year-old children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The focus of instructional tasks was on working with groups of ten to support the understanding of place value. Findings from relevant assessment tasks and children’s work highlighted the importance of encouraging young children to move from unitary (counting by ones) to tens-structured thinking
Interview with Darroll P. Young
No full textDarroll P. Young describes the economic impact of the Uranium Industry on San Juan County, Utah
Edward P. Young renderings
No full textA set of drawings of various buildings (mostly in Salt Lake City, but one from Tooele) from a folder labeled, "Edward P. Young renderings." Edward Partridge Young was a son of architect Joseph Don Carlos Young and brother of architect George Cannon Young. Some of these drawings were done for the architect Slack W. Winburn. Those drawings with dates are from the 1930sPublix Theater; Fireplace; Tooele Civic Center; Gates; Walker Building; Memory Grove gates; Proposed air port terminal; Vico garage and gas station; Two renderings of a pair of unidentified residences; Hepworth Carthey building [161 S. Main Street, Salt Lake], by W. E. Ware, Architect; series of unidentified buildings by Slack W. Winbur
Writing trauma: Literary representations of traumatic experience
No full textYoung and Stubley explore the representation of trauma in works of literature, raising the question of whether it is possible to truly know about horrific experiences if one has not experienced them oneself. Also, for those who have experienced them, whether it is possible to symbolize what is arguably beyond representation
Working with traumatised adolescents: A framework for intervention
No full textLemma and Young articulate particular difficulties that traumatized adolescents may face in negotiating developmental processes, such as separation and identity formation. Using a clinical case, they elaborate on the role of identificatory processes and omnipotence post-trauma and emphasize the importance of the body
Letter from P. Bernard Young to S. B. Simmons
No full textLetter from P. Bernard Young to S. B. Simmons, concerning not receiving picture of contest winners
Letter from E. Young to Michi Weglyn, April 11, 1992
No full textA letter to Michi Weglyn from E. Young who read a manuscript of Frank Chin's and was looking forward to the possibility of working with Chin.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Embodying inspiration race and disaffected young white men in Burnley
No full textYoung white men have often found themselves bearing the burden of designs for the improvement of UK society. Official reports reprised this theme following the racially charged disturbances in Northern England's mill towns in the summer of 2001. So- called disaffected young white men were left ambiguously positioned -and immobilised- on the margins of political discourse. In response, this thesis complicates the ways in which young white men in Burnley, a town affected by the violence, may be appreciated as politically capable. In so doing, it prepares for a more imaginative mapping of roles for them in local social progress, post-2001. Ethnographies of boxing and bodybuilding gyms unpack the variety of affective capacities through which young white men live out complex masculine body cultures. These study the inspiration young men find in these carefully engineered and politically enabling places. Although these gyms nestle amidst Burnley's urban hinteriands, and between otherwise parallel lives, they see fragile bonds of affection grow between young white and Asian men. Those bonds represent small, fragile and politically ambiguous gains, which must nonetheless inform proposals for Burnley’s future. The thesis speculates that if such proposals are to be desirable and possible, those same young men must find them persuasive. It therefore recommends placing colloquial inspirations, and a cautious affirmation of capable individuality, at the heart of visions of social progress in Burnley
A strong future for young people leaving out-of-home care
No full textYoung people leaving care or who have left care are over-represented in the statistics on homelessness, early school leaving and contact with the criminal justice system. They are also more likely to have children at an early age and are at greater risk of having their own child taken into care.
Improving outcomes for young people who are leaving care requires a dual focus on improving the quality of care and providing better support to young people as they are transitioning from care.
UnitingCare Chidlren Young People and Famliies has conducted a review of Australian and international policy and program approaches relevant to improving outcomes for young people who are transitioning from OOHC to adulthood. This paper sets out the key learnings from this review. The paper focuses on the policy changes that are needed for young people who are transitioning from care across the leaving and aftercare phases. It includes a six-point plan to improve outcomes for young people who are transitioning from OOHC to adulthood. While the paper focuses particularly on the NSW policy context it will also have relevance to readers in other Australian states and territories.
 
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