Youth at the Kids (Y@K) is the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Youth Advisory Council. Y@K is a group of young people aged between 11 and 25 who aim to make the RCH a better place. Y@K provides a voice for children and young people receiving health care at the RCH. Y@K provides a voice for … Continued
By Dr Joanne Williams PhD Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Adolescent Health. The Centre for Adolescent Health was commissioned to utilize data collected in the Healthy Neighbourhoods Project (HN) to write a report for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) looking at alcohol and youth violence. The HN study was originally funded … Continued
Two prestigious Churchill Scholarships have been awarded to Centre for Adolescent Health staff in 2010. Dr Cathy Crock is about to leave on her travels overseas and will be examining consumer perspectives around health care. Dr Nola Firth is involved in innovative research to develop and trial school based resilience programs that assist adolescents who … Continued
The staff of the Young People’s Health Service, from the RCH, Centre for Health were with Professor Brian Burdekin at the Melbourne Town Hall on the 9 of March 2007. YPHS was in attendance for the launch of the February edition (Young Homeless People and their future). YPHS also launched their Public Safety DVD “Voices … Continued
Professor George Patton was speaking at the ministerial launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007. He chaired the Advisory Committee to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare around the development of the report. The report brings together the best available current data on aspects of health and social development and is widely … Continued
Muliti-disciplinary research requires careful navigational skills, as Amy Nisselle and Rony Duncan explain. GRADUATE STUDIES It’s now more and more common for Masters and PhD students in Australia to undertake projects that cross fields of research. The problem is, multi-disciplinary research is a relatively new phenomenon. Students are often supervised by experts who did not … Continued
Find out the key findings from the 2009 review of the Adolescent Model of Care.
Does letting teens have small amounts of alcohol from early on teach them to drink sensibly? Click on the link below to read what Prof. Patton of the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute says. http://www.mcri.edu.au/Downloads/Media/2009/11/04/alcohol.pdf
Congratulations to Professor George Patton, Director of Research at the Centre for Adolescent Health, whose team’s research on youth mortality recently received coverage on The New York Times website. The international study, published in The Lancet this month, was the first to report on the rates and causes of global mortality in people aged 10-24. … Continued
“If I known about Frontyard and YPHS when I was 15, I would have found help then, and maybe my life would be different.” (20yr old homeless mother) An Evaluation of clinical street outreach in Melbourne’s CBD 2009 – Written by Donna Eade Executive Summary of the YPHS clinical street outreach (CSO) evaluation, 2009. YPHS … Continued
