Across the span of a year, we saw most young people in intensive AoD programs develop a stronger sense of wellbeing and control over use. Gabriel Caluzzi, Mark Ferry, Andrew Bruun Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS), Jacqui Sundbery, Jen Skattebol, Jo Neale & Joanne Bryant (she/her) doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

There's got to be more to this breakdancing story. A white woman, who knows bureaucracy, gets selected as the only Australian woman in a sport that has black origins, and where better talent can be found busking on Swanston Street . The selection process clearly problematic.

Dare I google 'emu war'?

Kathryn Rebecca here, reporting for duty

🧵 1/2 “White promises can disappear, just like writing in the sand.” Read the full media release at tinyurl.com/4mkxftkd

it is absolutely beyond my comprehension that no one has criminal responsibility for this. If you can't see this as a catastrophic risk (even when told that it is!), then for the love of god you should not be responsible for building roads and bridges theage.com.au/national/victo…

every sentence is violence. this is a government who continually wages colonial violence - here & elsewhere, on children & non-children - and they have the temerity to say that others should be punished & that they should be celebrated for punishing them. horrors upon horrors.

Dr Raygun has achieved a feat absolutely unheard of in academia - people are reading her thesis

Out now open access in J of Youth Studies. Using an ethics of care framework, we looked at young people's views of staff care in residential AOD services. Written with Joanne Bryant (she/her) Sarah MacLean Jen Skattebol Rebecca Gray Jo Neale Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) Ted Noffs Foundation doi.org/10.1080/136762…

This does not get raised enough in the syd/ melb wars

I watched this whole video and still don't know what the question was?

She was found in an unmarked grave. Please stop for a moment and think about the implications of that.

Yet another study finding differential impacts (mostly with decrease of symptoms) on the mental health of youth comparing prepandemic to pandemic times. The media far far far less likely to report on these now common findings. /1 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

"What good is the coronial process, the pain and heartache that we have to go through, if they just let these people walk? No charges to be laid over Veronica Nelson’s death in custody — who pleaded with prison guards 49 times in the lead-up to her death abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…

It is Overdose Awareness Day today -- a day that hits very close to home for me, and unfortunately, also for so many others. Overdose deaths are preventable deaths--so much life and love and hope cut short. #IOAD2024 💔😭

Australia is failing its children. A ‘tough on crime’ approach to youth justice puts politics before prevention theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Some academics document their achievements and impacts in an organised computer file. Others have to Google their own name to remind them of what they have done and then manually count things the night before something is due. GUESS WHICH ONE I AM?!

Important to see focus on kids & young people. Important to remember that sexual violence services have worked for decades w kids and young people, but are starved for funds. #nationalcabinet