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Welcome To the Wikispace: Youth Circumstances. This is a Collaborative Project for Students of Charles Darwin University enrolled in the unit //CHCYTH3C Support Young People Address Their Circumstances//.

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This wikispace allows students to interact and create a major assessment task that will outline a strategic plan to organise and evaluate youth event (virtual or otherwise) maximising the involvement of young people and other significant stakeholders.

The assessment Task is as Follows: //**"Giving Youth a Voice"**// The following issues continue to be significant issues for young people across Australia:

1) Racial and Cross Cultural Tension 2) Sexuality and Sexual Health 3) Domestic violence and Abuse at home 4) Lack of Opportunity for Artistic expression 5) Youth Suicide and Self Harm

Choose ONE of these issues and construct a project plan for an event that raises awareness of your chosen issue with youth and the community. You must detail how you plan to involve young people at every step from forming the idea to evaluating the success of the project.

You must include in your report: 1) **Introduction:** Why is this issue a problem to young people. This should be supported by at least 2 real statistical or other references. 2) **Consultation Process:** How did you contact young people, how did you encourage them to be involved in planning of this project. Where did you hold meetings. What was your role? How did you gather ideas and decide on the project (INCLUDE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION eg Questionairres) 3) **Networking:** How did you go about organising your event? How did you involve young people in setting up and running the event? How did you promote it to other young people and the community? Which other agencies did you involve? Why? How? 4) **The Event:** Outline a sample event, how, when, where it may occur. Describe how this event or project will raise awareness of the issue. What resources would be needed to run this event? 5) **Evaluation:** By what means might you evaluate the success of the event at raising awareness in the community. How can young people be involved in the evaluation process. //Students must draw from class materials, utilise discussion boards and do their own independent research.//
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