Youth Health Events - Tamaki Campus, July 3rd, 5th & 6th, 2009

The Adolescent Health Research Group (AHRG) at The University Auckland welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with the Society of Youth Health Professionals Aotearoa New Zealand (SYHPANZ) and colleagues from the Connectedness Project at Victoria University Wellington, to host a three day youth health event at the Tamaki Campus of the University of Auckland in early July 2009.

Friday 3rd July - Youth Health Workforce Development Symposium

The day was mainly devoted to consideration and discussion of the draft Youth Health Framework for Workforce Development. Maria Kekus and Pauline Proud presented the framework which is available for viewing on the Workforce Development - Youth Health website along with more information from the Symposium and the development of  the Workforce Development Framework.

Professor David Bennett, from the New South Wales Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health provided an interesting historical perspective on the workforce development in adolescent health.

This Workforce Symposium was supported with funding from the Vodafone Foundation

                             

Rawiri Wharemate, Kaumatua with Dr Terryann Clark                                                        


Monday 5th July - Improving Health and Wellbeing for Young People: What does the research tell us?

The focus of the day was to update participants on recent research around youth health and wellbeing in New Zealand. The results from the Youth'07 National Survey of the Health and Wellbeing of Secondary School Students were presented by the Principal Investigator for the study, Dr Simon Denny.  Results for Maori students were presented by Dr Sue Crengle and for Maori students and their whanau or families  by Dr Terryann Clark. The Youth'07 results for Asian students were presented by Dr Sharon Wong

The results from the Victoria University Youth Connectedness Project were presented by Dr Jan Pryor and Dr Carla Crespo.  Nao Guy from Youthline Auckland presented some useful perspectives on engaging young people in youth-lead research and projects, including translating the results from the Youth'07 survey into youth-friendly resources. This latter project was a collaboration between Youthline, and The University of Auckland, funded with support from the Vodafone Foundation.


                
                                    Food and networking are priorities at such events!


Tuesday 6th July - Improving Health and Wellbeing for Young People: Growing Research Capability

A number of presenters outlined the challenges and rewards of researching with young people. Different perspectives were provided by Dr Peter Watson from the University of Auckland, and Dr Tim McCreanor and Hector Kaiwai from the Whariki /SHORE, Massey University