Have you ever experienced cyberbullying?

NSW YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL - CYBERBULLYING ONLINE FORUM

The NSW Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is holding an online cyberbullying forum from 9am on 6th October to 5pm on 7 November 2008.
The YAC wants to hear young people’s views on and experiences of cyberbullying. The information collected on the forum will be used to inform advice provided to the Minister for Youth on the issue of cyberbullying. All information collected on the forum will remain anonymous.
All young people who register on the forum will go into the running to win an iPod Nano!
To register for the forum go to www.youth.nsw.gov.au.
For more information please contact:
Executive Officer
Youth Advisory Council
Department of Community Services
Ph: 02 9716 2844
yac@community.nsw.gov.au

Issues today - School violence

Visit the School Angels website to see how local communities are working together to stop violence and bullies in schools http://www.schoolangels.com.au/ The School Angels are regional groups designed to help better support schools with resources sharing, aid, management, counselling and anti-violence and tolerance programs. The School Angels is about parents, teachers and schools helping each other. Anti-violence needs to be taught at school, as does tolerance education.

Louise McMorland, Youth Librarian, Manly Library

Youth Homelessness

$1b needed to fight youth homelessness: report
A new report is calling for a $1 billion funding increase to tackle what it says is the worsening problem of youth homelessness. The inquiry by the National Youth Commission has found the number of young homeless people in Australia has doubled in the last two decades.
It says about 36,000 Australians under the age of 25 do not have stable accommodation.
Read the full report here
http://www.nyc.net.au/files/Australias_Homeless_Youth.pdf
Or from the ABC news website http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210387.htm
Louise, Youth Librarian, Manly