Events - Previous
Some of YACSA's previous events
State Election 2010 Pizza and Politics
How is SAAP responding to the needs of homeless young people forum
Code of Ethics forum
Upping the Anti workshop
State Election 2010 - Pizza and Politics
On 11 March 2010 YACSA, in conjunction with South Australian Youth Lobby (SAYL) and United Nations Youth Association (UNYA), invited representatives of South Australian political parties to present their party's policies in relation to young people and then to field questions from the floor.
Around 45 people, mostly young members, listened to Tom Koutsantonis, Michelle Lensink, Tammy Jennings, Robert Brokenshire and David Winderlich outline their party's positions on youth related issues. Lively debate was generated by questions from the audience and the evening was a great success.
How is SAAP responding to the needs of homeless young people
YACSA, Shelter SA, Homelessness SA and SACOSS held a forum to look at how SAAP is responding to the needs of homeless young people on Thursday, 24 April 2008.
Select below to download a Powerpoint presentation:
Setting the scene: current statistics and trends in youth homelessness ( 208Kb)
Robert Simms, Youth Affairs Council of SA
SAAP: a practitioner’s perspective ( 196Kb)
Sharyn Goudie, Service to Youth Council
The SAAP review: where we’re heading ( 128Kb)
Maria Fidge, Department for Families and Communities
Alternate models: different approaches to responding to youth homelessness ( 720Kb)
Aaron Maher, Live N Learn (NSW)
Overcoming the exclusion of chronically homeless young people with very high and complex needs ( 520Kb)
Wendy Malycha, St. John’s Youth Services
The Code of Ethics Forum was held on 30 October 2007
YACSA has produced the following discussion papers
The first discussion paper ( 144Kb)
The second discussion paper ( 100Kb)
Upping the Anti: A Workshop presented by SACOSS and YACSA
YACSA and the South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS), in partnership with Shelter SA and Homelessness SA, hosted this half-day workshop on 24 August 2007, to discuss anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), their use in managing disruptive behaviour and their appropriateness in the South Australian context.
Special guest speaker was Caroline Hunter, Guest Scholar, School of Law, Flinders University and Senior Lecturer in Housing Law, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
This event was completely sold out, and featured in a piece on ABC TV's Stateline that night.
Download further reading on ASBOs ( 28Kb)
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The Tenure Trick: Behaviour Control Creeps across Australia ( 480Kb)
Michele Slatter, School of Law, Flinders University
Anti-social Behaviour in Australia and England: convergence or divergence in policy approaches? ( 200Kb)
Caroline Hunter, Guest Scholar, School of Law, Flinders University and Senior Lecturer in Housing Law, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Socially unacceptable: better frameworks for responding to anti-social behaviour ( 928Kb)
Jennifer Duncan, Executive Director, YACSA and Karen Grogan, Executive Director, SACOSS