Youth Health

Publications and Resources

Ministry Publications

Youth Health: A Guide to Action
Proposes a plan of action to improve the health of New Zealand's 12 to 24 year olds. It sets out goals, objectives and specific actions aimed at doing this.

Improving the Health of Young People - Guidelines for school-based care
A practical, step-by-step guide to setting up a school-based health service. It is designed to assist health professionals and Primary Health Organisations who are thinking about how they could improve the health of the 12- to 18-year-olds in their population.

New Zealand Youth Health Status Report

Produced to support the development of Youth Health: A Guide To Action. It provides a snapshot of the health of New Zealanders aged 12 to 24 years.

Child and Youth Health Toolkit
This toolkit is aimed at District Health Board (DHB) funders and planners, doctors, nurses, managers, primary health organisations, community providers, DHB boards, and other individuals and groups wanting to improve child and youth health.

Links to websites

The Collaborative – for research and training in youth health and development
www.collaborative.org.nz

New Zealand Aotearoa Adolescent Health and Development (NZAAHD)
www.nzaahd.org.nz

The Low-down
www.thelowdown.co.nz

Ministry of Youth Development
www.myd.govt.nz

Child and Youth Mortality Review Committee
www.cymrc.health.govt.nz

General support

Urge – info for youth by youth
www.urge.co.nz/proto/index.asp

Youthline
www.youthline.co.nz

RU-OK - Self Help for Teenagers (UK)
www.ru-ok.com

Trippin - service directory for young people in Taranaki
www.trippin.co.nz

What's Up - Telephone Counselling Service
www.whatsup.co.nz

OUT THERE!
www.outthere.org.nz

Depression / Mental Health

The Low-down
www.thelowdown.co.nz

The Werry Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
www.werrycentre.org.nz

The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (Canada)
www.onthepoint.ca/index_e.htm

Youth Horizons Trust
www.youthhorizonstrust.org.nz

Headspace – Youth Mental Health
www.headspace.org.nz

Headroom (Australia)
www.headroom.net.au

Alcohol and Drug

New Zealand Drug Foundation
www.nzdf.org.nz

Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC)
www.alac.org.nz

Sexual and Reproductive Health

Family Planning
www.fpanz.org.nz

Youth Mentoring

The Youth Mentoring Trust
www.youthmentoring.org.nz/index.cfm

National Youth Workers Network Aotearoa
www.youthworkers.net.nz/index.html

Youth Empowerment Seminars (mentoring)
www.yess.co.nz

Life Paths Trust
www.lifepathstrust.org.nz/Home

Resources for school-based health services

Achievements in Multicultural High Schools (AIMHI)
www.aimhi.ac.nz

Auckland School Nurses Group
www.schoolnurse.org.nz

Research

Youth2000 – National Secondary School Youth Health Survey
www.youth2000.ac.nz

Information for parents

Parenting Information – Families Commission
www.nzfamilies.org.nz/parenting/index.php

Parent Easy Guides – information on issues faced by parents from birth through adolescence (Australia)
www.parenting.sa.gov.au/pegs/peg_category_title.asp?peg_category_id=9

Parenting with Confidence
www.parentsinc.org.nz/home

Page last updated: 13 February 2008