Youth Services Practice Report: Youth Mental Health

Description: A paper investigating an area of practice relevant to youth services
Relates to learning outcomes: 1 & 2
Weight: 60%
Word limit: 2000 words
Weeks 4 -12 will each focus on a different area of youth services practice. You are to select an area of practice for your assessment piece, this could be an area already discussed in class, or any other area you are interested in.
Examples of an area of practice include: Youth justice; homelessness; mental health; AOD; etc

Your focus topic cannot just be practice with a specific demographic of young people ie, young women, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, or LGBTQIA+ young people. However your critical analysis section (part 2) will take a a narrower focus within a nominated field.
For example:
The field of youth justice practice is considered in part 1 and a tighter focus on youth justice practice in respect of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander young people is discussed in part 2.
Or a broader consideration of youth homelessness as an area of practice might be considered in Part 1, with a narrower focus on LGBTQIA+ homelessness for part 2.
If you are uncertain about your focus area please discuss it with me.
Your assignment should include the following clearly identified elements – use headings:
Part 1 - A description of an area of youth services practice which outlines the major service types it is comprised of.
If relevant note any distinctions between statutory and non-statutory locations for practice (only consider statutory/non statutory if relevant to your area of practice) eg youth justice has both statutory and non-statutory services.
Where a field contains a wide diversity of practice settings you should list and outline the broad service types eg in the field of youth homelessness incorporates outreach, youth refuges/ shelters, early intervention services, and transitional housing are different types of service response.
This is not to be a list of specific agencies (though you can name an agency as an example of a particular type of service – eg Brisbane Youth Service is a key agency providing a range of youth homelessness services).
Key funding programs services receive funding from should be identified and briefly explained.
If relevant, key policy initiatives that shape your area of practice should be noted.
Please note this section is just a snapshot, it is not an analysis of the service system. Note in the CRA it is worth less points than section 2 - this should indicate where more effort should be directed
Part 2 - A critical analysis of 2 key elements most central to critical practice in that area of practice.
Clearly identify which practice element you are considering (again use headings) this critical analysis will demonstrate :
Clear understanding of the practice principle being discussed.
Critical analysis of why that practice principle is relevant to that specific target group. This will include a critical examination of how the construction of the particular target group links to the practice responses. In considering this also think about who is included and who is left out in such responses and why. Think about what the young people who are the target of this area of practice would think is good practice.
This critical analysis must be based on evidence from relevant academic and industry sources which you have located.
Note:
Workshop discussions, case studies and practitioner guest speakers will provide some insights into key skills, knowledge and good practice approaches relevant to particular fields of practice. You may refer to information provided by the guest speakers to illustrate particular points you are making in your report.
The assignment should be written in report format with headings for each section (you may use conventions for reports such as dot points) and must be fully referenced in an academic style. It is expected that the references utilized will be both relevant, numerous (15 + in number), and include those most central to practice in an Australian / Queensland context. The length of the report is to be approximately 2000 words (+ or _ 10%). Overall this project constitutes 60% of marks for the unit.
Please use Australia youth justice and resourse for the report.
Please fellow the instructions to write the report and please use Australia Youth practice and resourse for the report. I am not sure how many reference need to use but I will let you know asap