Kia ora and welcome to the subject guide for Youth Development.
It provides books, journal articles, databases, websites and multimedia resources relevant to your study and research.
Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy sets out a shared understanding of what children and young people need and want in order to be well, what government is and should be doing to support them, and how we must work together.
Three steps to meeting health literacy needs-Ngā toru hīkoi e mōhiotia ai te hauora.
Oranga Tamariki: Ministry of Children work to support and care for children and young people in New Zealand.
The Ministry has reports and actions plans for Youth Health and Wellbeing
Equity of Health Care for Māori: A Framework. The framework guides health practitioners, health organisations and the health system to achieve equitable health care for Māori through leadership, knowledge and commitment.
A Framework for Health Literacy. The Ministry of Health developed this framework because it is committed to a health system that enables everyone living in New Zealand to live well and keep well. Building health literacy is an important part of this.
Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Action Plan 2017-2021 is part of an outcomes approach. It contributes to achieving the vision of the New Zealand Health Strategy.
New Zealand Health Strategy sets out how New Zealand's health system can improve people’s access to and experiences of health services so that everyone benefits
Ola Manuia: Pacific Health and Wellbeing Action Plan 2020–2025. The government’s new national plan and commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of Pacific population living in Aotearoa New Zealand. This plan was informed by the previous Pacific health action plan Ala Mo’ui: Pathways to Pacific Health and Wellbeing 2014–2018.
Oranga Hinengaro System and Service Framework identifies the core components of a contemporary mental health and addiction system with a 10-year view. It provides guidance for those responsible for publicly funded health system policy, design, service commissioning, and delivery.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi Framework. The Ministry of Health’s Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti) Framework provides an updated expression of the Crown’s Te Tiriti obligations in the context of the health and disability system.
Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 is the implementation plan for He Korowai Oranga, New Zealand’s Māori Health Strategy – it will help us achieve better health outcomes for Māori by setting the government’s direction for Māori health advancement over the next five years
Ministry of Social Development Strategies that will make a bigger and better difference in people's lives.
Keeping it Real A resource for involving young people in decision-making.
Youth Plan 2020-2022: Turning Voice into Action - Rebuilding and Recovering
Whaikaha - Ministry of Disabled People was established to work in partnership with the disability community, Māori and Government for a better, more independent future for disabled people and whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand. (NB: The Office for Disability Issues has been integrated into Whaikaha from August 2023).
New Zealand Disability Strategy. This guides the work of government agencies on disability issues from 2016 to 2026. It includes goals and objectives to help improve health outcomes for Pacific peoples.
Hauora: Report on stage one of the Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry (WAI 2575). Also a physical copy is available in the library at 362.1 WAI
Ara Taiohi. Supports people working with young people to enhance youth development.
Code of Ethics provide an agreed set of guidelines for youth work in Aotearoa to ensure that youth work is carrield out in a safe, skilled, ethical manner.
Code of Ethics of dapaanz, the professional association for people working in addiction treatment.
Regulations are rules made by a government or a government agency. They deal with the detail and implementation i.e. how something set out in an Act should be done. This could refer to the technical side of things or for things that might change over time and need updating.
New Zealand Drug Foundation. They take the lead in Aotearoa New Zealand with educating, advising and advocating for healthy approaches to alcohol and other drugs
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Pacific Health Models and Strategies
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150 | Psychology |
158.3 | Counselling |
301 | Sociology |
361 | Social Work |
362.12 | Community Health |
362.7 | Youth Work |
616.89 | Mental Health |
616.8915 | Family Therapy |
362.29 | Addiction |
362.829 | Abuse |