Description
Promoting Indigenous child and youth outcomes in Australia
Construct the assessment in the form of a report (see Assessment Resources on report writing)
Disadvantage influences health in childhood but, importantly, such disadvantage early in life is increasingly being linked with later adult health (Barnes & Rowe 2013, p.8).
The Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth (ARACY) launched Australia’s first national plan for child and youth wellbeing, known as The Nest action agenda, on Monday 18th November 2013. The Nest action agenda shared vision for Australia’s children and youth (aged 0-24) is an Australia where:
All young people are loved and safe, have material basics, are healthy, are learning and participating and have a positive sense of identity and culture.
The Nest action agenda established 6 priority directions to help achieve the vision:
1. Improving early childhood learning and development
2. Improving the educational performance of young Australians
3. Improving the physical health of young Australians
4. Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of young Australians
5. Promoting the participation of young Australians
6. Reducing disadvantage arising from income disparity
Your assignment task is to select one priority direction from the above list and,
1) identify the status of health & wellbeing indicators for Indigenous Australian children and/or youth related to your selected priority direction;
2) highlight the significance of the priority direction on life span outcomes for Indigenous Australian children and/or youth;
3) discuss what determinants of health and wellbeing contribute to these outcomes for Indigenous Australian children and/or youth;
4) briefly outline one programme currently available in Australia that has demonstrated evidence (either for the activities or outcomes of the program) on its impact on the identified priority direction for Indigenous Australian children and/or youth. E.g. Yarn Safe by Headspace, the National Youth Mental Health
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Foundation https://www.headspace.org.au/yarn-safe/the-yarnsafe-campaign/. (Other examples that you may use in your report wil be made available in the MyLO site)
You may use ARACY evidence such as Report Card: The wellbeing of young Australians along with other Australian sources e.g. AIHW, ABS, and state publications to support your discussion.
CRITERION 1: (35%) (i.e. let the size of the percentage guide your amount of writing – ps apologies – the rubric says 40% for this one – I can’t add up!)
The Report needs to demonstrate a detailed knowledge and analysis of the current status of the health and wellbeing (see Module 3 for ideas) of Indigenous children in Australia within the selected priority direction.
i.e. Choose a selected priority direction and have a good read through the NEST report card to understand them:
1. Improving early childhood learning and development
2. Improving the educational performance of young Australians
3. Improving the physical health of young Australians
4. Improving the social and emotional wellbeing of young Australians
5. Promoting the participation of young Australians
6. Reducing disadvantage arising from income disparity
And then research the topic you have chosen with regards to how Indigenous children experience it. (statistics – how, when, why, geographical, social statistics etc.)
CRITERION 2: (20%)
The Report needs to address one priority from the Nest Action agenda and make a persuasive argument of the significance of the priority to health and wellbeing for Indigenous children and young people in Australia.
What ‘significance’ means is that if the statistics are high – why are they? Are there poor outcomes for the Indigenous children? – describe these outcomes in terms of your chosen priority area – i.e. if you have chosen the educational performance – then what are the educational outcomes? Use some good research to use in your writing.
CRITERION 3 (20%)
The Report needs to clearly and succinctly analyse (what are they and why are they) and synthesizes (put everything together – i.e. name a determinant and say why it contributes to a good outcome or a poor outcome) how the determinants of health and wellbeing (so name more than one for higher marks) contribute to these health outcomes (that you mentioned in Criterion 2)
CRITERION 4 (10%)
The report needs to analyse one (health promotional – so put that term in your searches) programme that promotes your priority direction through synthesis with the Bioecological theory (remember all the info from your first assessment – you can look back at that and say how the promotional program – see links in the previous news item – meets the micro – macro or PPCT model etc. – you don’t need a lot of info as this is only worth 10% but you need to make mention of it in some way).
The report needs to evaluate by providing evidence the programme is clearly applicable to the Australian context (best to choose then a program first of all that is Australian – then you don’t have anything to prove about it being applicable to Australian context). Also state whether the program has been evaluated (or not) and if so what they found.
CRITERION 5 (15%)
– Maintained academic standards in accordance with the UTAS FHS Presentation of Assignments.
– All concepts and ideas are supported with reference to a number of quality academic sources.
– Referencing is according to the UTAS FHS Harvard referencing guide, with no errors.
– Written expression is clear and succinct with no more than two spelling, punctuation and/or grammatical errors.
– Paper is skilfully constructed and a pleasure to read (don’t worry too much about a formal report – just remember that a report can have headings and that a summary helps the reader to know what the following pages are about.
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