Child Rights/Youth Issues

The guide is the summary of the author's work in Australia over 6 months consulting more than 30 Community Cultural Development workers, young people, youth workers, counsellors, teachers, academics and advocates in order to develop a framework for good practice when working with young people from a refugee background.

A review of the CCD's (Community Cultural Development) work, including project examples and application tips. Chapters: What is Community Cultural Development, Project Examples (communities employing artists, artists engaging with communities, individual activity, recent strategic initiatives), Community Cultural Development Board Support (project grant categories, infrastructure grant categories, Ros Bower Award), Application Tips, Resources.

hands up! and be counted looks at some of the projects funded by the Community Cultural Development Board that have been produced by communities with migrant or refugee backgrounds. The 'how to apply' section is a simple outline of the steps involved in developing a proposal and applying for project funding.

Over 6 workshops, young people from a refugee background and living in Brisbane came together to talk, draw, paint and sing about their experiences of the past and their hopes for the future. The video is a snapshot of these reflections.

This briefing and discussion paper presents the case for why global issues are integral to the design and delivery of youth work in the UK. It has been published jointly by the DEA, NYA, Youth Link Scotland, Cyngor Ieuenctid Cymru (Wales Youth Agency), and the Youth Council for Northern Ireland with support from DFID, CYEC, DfES Connexions Unit and NCVYS. It emphasises the links between global issues and current social agendas and outlines the action maintained youth services, voluntary youth work organisations and youth work training providers can take to develop and embed global dimensions in their work. It also includes brief examples of global youth work practice, and sources of information, training, resources and support. It will be of interest to all those working in informal education with young people, but is primarily aimed at decision makers within national voluntary youth organisations, senior youth and community education officers within local authorities, curriculum development officers within youth work organisations and youth and community work training agencies and providers.

A collection of case studies and a general discussion of the role of art in the lives of disadvantaged youth, also arguing for the powerfulness of the participants work.

A follow up to the 'Risking Art - Art For Survival' publication, focusing on the work of the Artful Dodgers Studio in Australia, dealing with marginalised and disadvantaged youth and what the studio has offered them in developmental and creative terms.

Research regarding the role of arts in young children, from birth until the age of 6.Identifing and describing examples of current practice in the arts in eary years, the study also aims to help provide a firm foundation for development work in this area.There are 3 main starnds to the research:1. a national survey of arts education and early years representatives to identify, and collects the views of, key providers of arts and early years activity; and to identify examples of current practice.2. six focus groups of representatives to discuss current practice and fututre priorities.3. ten case studies of current practice.

Building on from the original manual in launched in February 2000 this new version has been updated. It is designed for health and disability workers planning to set up and develop a resource centre within resource-poor communities around the world.

Theatr Fforwm Cymru is an educational charity based in Pembrokeshire who use Theatre of the Oppressed and other drama-based techniques to effect change, the Agora Report is a 26 page report accompanied by a DVD to be used to introduce proposals for legislative change that have come about through the legislative theatre event, the Agora. It can also be used to participate in making these proposals a reality. The DVD takes you clearly through the proposals using short documentaries that give each community group involved an opportunity to present the rationale for their proposals, and includes footage from the Legislative theatre pieces from which the proposals have emerged.