A social enterprise providing education and information to protect and enhance the mental health of young people
26% of young people in Australia experience mental health issues, including depression each year. Dr Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington DC, recently told the National Health and Medical Research Council in Canberra that Australia was ten years ahead of America in mental health reform, particularly in early intervention [...]
80% of people in a committed relationship have sent or received sexually explicit messages. 60% have sent or received sexually explicit pictures or videos.* How we express our sexual selves is changing. It is no longer a private realm, shared only by two people. It is casual, it is uninhibited and it is out there. [...]
A report published recently, Adult-Supervised Alcohol Use Doesn't Teach Adolescents to Drink Responsibly, has found that supervised use is associated with more alcohol-related harmful consequences in teens. "Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies," said the study's lead researcher, Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., of the School of Nursing at the University of [...]
Does my bum look big in this ad?, published by Wombat Books, This book is great for teenagers and a fabulous resource for teachers, parents and carers. It looks at the issues of body image and the media from a teenage friendly perspective. It is written in easy language that young people can understand with [...]
Youth Excel Youth Excel was founded in 2000. Now in its tenth year of operation, this charity delivers highly effective small group programs and mentoring to teenagers in Brisbane to over 120 young people per year. Youth Excel is passionate about seeing young people make a successful transition into adulthood. To this end they offer [...]
A recent study published in The Lancet, Global burden of disease in young people aged 10—24 years: a systematic analysis, looked at the burden of disease, injury and death in young people worldwide. Although young people make up 27% of the world’s population not much is known about their contribution to the global burden of [...]
The Korn Group recently published a study, The Truth About Teens and Tweens, that looks at the lives of young people today and how much they are sharing with their parents. It seems that parents are the last to find out what their children are up to, fear of parental embarrassment and reactions means that [...]
It has long been the view of experts that second hand smoke (SHS) can be harmful to both smokers and non smokers alike. It is now recognised that exposure to SHS, especially among young people, can influence their risk of taking up smoking as biologically, inhaled smoke increases the urge to smoke. A recent study, [...]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released figures that show we as a nation are consuming less beer than we did 60 years ago. Beer consumption fell from 4.62 litres to 4.56 litres per capita in the year to June. Over the past 5 years, the amount of alcohol available for consumption from [...]
Many alcohol promotions are youth targeted and have a huge impact on forming how accepting young people are of alcohol. But these campaigns contribute towards the damage alcohol consumption has on teenager's lives. Magazine ads for alcoholic beverages reached more readers who were 12-20 years of age than adult readers in 2001. 1 According to [...]
