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Peer support: making a difference
- Author:
- DUMONT Joe
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 5, Winter 2002, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Reports on the growing trend of peer support, where young people use their experience and skills to help, listen to and understand other young people.
Research into practice
- Author:
- RICHARDSON Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.02, 2002, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on studies that point to gaps in adolescent support and ways of improving help for older children.
The youth divide
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The young at heart
- Author:
- ROOSE Rudi
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.4.02, 2002, p.45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports from Ghent on a networking project aimed at transforming the way youth care is carried out in Flanders by putting the client, not the organisation, at the centre.
Ecstasy and the rise of the chemical generation
- Authors:
- HAMMERSLEY Richard, KHAN Furzana, DITTON Jason
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 183p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book, about ecstasy users lives, is based on a UK government funded project and gives voice to the 'chemical generation' for the first time. The effects of the manufacture, distribution and use of ecstasy are now being felt across much of the globe. In the UK over fifty percent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. Examines how they first started using ecstasy, how they used it in different ways, why clubbing and raving are so important, how good sex is on ecstasy, how they chill out, how they come down, what problems they have encountered and why they stop.
Leadership with young people
- Author:
- BARNES Peter
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 117p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
Whether a youth worker, outdoor instructor, community worker, scout leader or some other similar context this book : introduces some of the more relevant leadership theory; gives ideas about how to put it into practice; helps recognition of the different leadership styles in others; encourages the development as a leader through experience, reflection, learning from others and yours and others' mistakes. It includes contributions from specialist workers on: working with people in the outdoors; groups with special needs or disabilities; challenging young people; and working with young people from ethnic communities.
The drugwise and the drug daredevils: consulting over 2000 young people in north London, 2002
- Author:
- STOCKDALE David
- Publisher:
- Young Voice
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- East Molesey
Over 2000 young North Londoners tell us what they know about drugs, their motivations for, and patterns of use.
The arts provider partnership summer project 2001
- Author:
- McEVOY Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 8(4), October 2002, pp.273-281.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Looks at the conception and completion of an art programme held at a residential centre for young people. The programme aimed to provide a tailored programme of events through the summer to complement the learning at schools.
Draft national care standards for childcare agencies a consultation paper
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Centre for research on families and relationships research briefing 7: parents, teenagers and family life: a qualitative investigation
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
- Publisher:
- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh