- Youth workers who have an interest in improving the sexual health and well-being of young people, can now join the Youth Sexual Health Network by visiting www.yhn.org.au.
- The Dusseldorp Skills Forum is an independent, not for profit body with a mission to achieve changes needed to enable all Australians to reach their potential through the acquisition of productive skills. In particular, the Forum seeks to improve the learning and work transitions of young Australians by cooperating with communities, industry, government and non-government organisations to generate ideas, research, tools and information, and to build networks of common interest.
- Mentoring Australia is the national association for mentors and mentoring programs.
- The Youth Mentoring Network is an initiative of the National Youth Mentoring Partnership which consists of four not-for profit organisations (The Smith Family, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia and Job Futures) and the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. The Youth Mentoring Network aims to work with interested youth mentoring organisations and practitioners to foster the growth and development of high quality mentoring programs for young people in Australia by providing a national base of collaboration, support, guidance and expertise.
- The Department of Juvenile Justice website contains information on the Young Offenders Act, publications and juvenile justice related research.
- The Work Ventures Connect IT program turns ex corporate and government PCs and peripheral equipment into affordable systems for disadvantaged families, schools and not-for-profit organizations around Australia.
- Computerbank New South Wales (CBNSW) utilises discarded corporate and personal computers and many of the advantages inherent in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to supply systems and networks to groups and individuals within NSW who would normally not be able to afford such things.
- GP Resource Kit: Enhancing the skills of General Practitioners in caring for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds. This resource Kit, available on the NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health's website, is a practical guide to providing health care to adolescents in general practice, with strategies and practical steps that GPs can take being identified.
- The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a special article on Young People and Migration in New South Wales, looking at the population change, migration and mobility of young people in New South Wales over the 10 years to 30 June 2003, which has been on the increase since 2000.
- The NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health was establised to create better health and well-being for all young people aged 12 -24 in NSW by partnering with health care, non-government, education, academic, community and advocacy bodies to ensure better adolescent health outcomes.
- The Multicultural Family Help Kit by the NSW Transcultural Mental Health Centre helps people to recognise mental health problems in children and young people. It is available in 14 languages.
- The LawAndParents website provides a reference point on the law, your rights and your responsibilities as a parent in the UK.
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