Ideas for the Youth Board
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What are your peer's questions...? You'll notice them in conversations... and you can find out the answers and put them on the youth board.
· Awareness Weeks, eg:
· Mental Health Awareness week - if i feel depressed, are there alternatives to medication?
· Youth Week - what's being organised by young people in this town?
· Lifeline Week - what do they do, why, who are they?
· Youth Council updates - what news have the youth councillors got for us?
· Health class curriculum outputs - what's the topic this term?
· Life skills eg:
· Flatting - can the landlord put the rent up just after you move in?
· Budgeting - what do you need to pay for?
· Updates from Youth Action Groups
· HAGs (Health Action Group)
· SADD group
· Quit Smoking group
· Peer mediators / Peer Mentors / Student contacts
· Safer Partying information - what should I take with me?
· Voting information (Local body / parliamentary) - how do I enrol to vote?
· Community events, eg:
· Gigs info, - how can school bands get onto public gigs?
· Film Festivals - what's the craziest movie you've seen lately?
· Ecofest - what changes can you make at home?
· Courses - weekend workshops, what will you do when you leave school?
· Websites of interest - what's the best website you've been to lately? Where's the best info on... (choose your topic?)
· International awareness days, eg:
· World Television Day - what would you do if you weren't watching TV?
· International Buy Nothing Day - can you do it?
· Racial Discrimination Elimination Day - who's voices are on the board?
· International Coming Out Day - open the door!
· Community radio programmes, eg:
· SunnySideUp ! (Tasman Youth Council)
· Rangatahi Show - school age presenters
· Youth Writing - what's your school's English or History Class been doing lately?
· Health clinic displays, eg:
· Foetal Alcohol Syndrome - what can happen to your baby if you drink alcohol when you're pregnant?
· Safer Sex - will a condom keep you safe from Sexually Transmitted Infections?
· Art - ask if the art class can do exhibitions on some of the above themes<




