Discussion Board Week 7

Saturday, 24 April 2010 9:44:56 AM EST

Hi All,
A brief up date on what is happening with my project.:
Whilst I am struggling to get others on board with the blogging (including me- well finding the time) I have begun my project in earnest.

I had three young people at my service for 2 days with one of the school chaplains as I said in last week’s discussion board.
From that one if the young people attended our communities ‘Youth Day Out’ event- that we hold each year. This is to celebrate the young people of the community.

The day was a huge success- managed to keep the local mayor around – she and one of her fellow councillors made candles (they take about half an hour). The minister Karen Struthers attended the event and was impressed.
One of the young people from the school came down and helped us out for a few hours – spraying on tattoos – long line all day.
I am currently rushing to get some art work done before the 23rd for an Art show at the school. Well must run and do some blogging.
Karen

Discussion Board WEEK 6

Sunday, 18 April 2010 11:50:54 AM EST
Wow I feel that I have done so much and yet so little. I have been powering ahead with my project but I have taken to time to write about it on my blog or on the discussion board.

So here goes my update:
I ran a 2 day project with young people from one of the Anglican schools with one of the chaplains. The two days was really good way to connect and discuss many topics with the young people. We watched a couple of videos- one that was made by the Youth Advocacy Centre by young people, part of it was filmed in the juvenile detention centre. The second was by Alternative Violence Project Qld- who run workshops, this one was with prisoners.

The videos provided a lot of conversation around where things can go wrong for people leading to bad choices. This then lead to a discussion of who was available for them to discuss things with. The people were easily identifiable (school counsellor, teachers, chaplains and school nurse), the issues that arose where around lack of knowledge and understanding of the roles and responsibilities of these roles- mainly confidentiality.

The group identified a few ways to address this so that students can be more aware of the roles and responsibilities of these people.
Lastly we identified future projects where and how we can work together- the first was on Saturday at our Youth Week event.
Now I have a heap of work to do to get all the rest of them happening – the next is in May so I better get cracking.
Karen

Finally started the process

Hi All,
I have done heaps but have not stopped and taken the time to actually write about it. so here goes as a catch up on what I am doing On Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th April - I had three students and one school based Chaplain. It was a busy two days:
 We started with the fun stuff and they learnt how to use the spray on tattoo machine- and got to tattoo each other.


 We then discussed what our service did, then watched a couple of videos - one by young people and one by a community group that our service is involved with Alternatives to Violence Project (who run workshops), the workshop we watched was with a group of prisoners who participated in the workshops.

 We discussed and looked at choices that people make and what supports that they have.

 We further discussed what supports young people in their school have- and the issues that may stop them from seeking out these supports.

 One of the main ones was the uncertainty re what the roles and who and when these people need to discuss things that they discuss with.

And that was day one.