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Forum: improving outcomes for young people who are most at risk
Invitation: for people working with, and for, young people who are most at risk.
Thursday 28th May, 8.45 for 9.00–1.00 [Morning tea provided]
Glenorchy Civic Centre
Opening: Lisa Singh MP, Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection
Keynote address: Professor Rob White, Professor of Environmental
Criminology, UTAS.
Panel: Katrina Beams, DoE; Ron Nash, Polytechnic; Nick Evans, DHHS; plus, Chance on Main, Tools and Futures for All
Questions for discussion in breakout session:
- How can we better coordinate and formalise relationships between the different projects supporting young people in Southern Tasmania?
- What are the gaps in the system now and how should they be addressed?
- What strategies work best to equip young people with formal qualifications to continue their education and training?
- How do we get and share the resources to support models that assist young people to lead to formal qualifications?
- How do we demonstrate that a project is working? What evidence is needed; how should it be collected, presented and to whom?
Who will be attending?
People working directly, or managing programs, for young people who are most at risk in southern Tasmania e.g: local government; NGOs; State, Catholic, Independent education sectors and allied services; other State Government Departments; DEEWR and the business sector.
RSVP (and enquiries) by Thursday May 21
Gerry White, Youth Transitions Taskforce
email Gerry
Tel: 6270 2242
Overview and Rationale:
The Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority is the management body for the Southern Tasmanian Regional Planning Project (STRPP), which commences in late February 2009.
This initiative is the result of an agreement between the State Government, the Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority, (the STCA), and the 12 southern Tasmanian Councils and aims to achieve the following outcomes:
- A comprehensive regional land use strategy for the region.
- An infrastructure investment strategy for the region.
- The development of coordinated, consistent and contemporary planning schemes for all councils involved, based on the common strategy.
This important initiative that will greatly assist all those who interact with the planning system and will determine the way the Southern region develops over the next 20 years and beyond.
Southern Tasmanian Councils have joined forces to seek changes to the Nation Building and Jobs Plan Facilitation Bill currently before State Parliament.
Chair of the Southern Tasmanian Councils Association (STCA), Ald Rob Valentine, said the Councils note the bill’s key objectives but were concerned that it had the potential to create future problems for homeowners, Councils and the State Government itself.
“We understand the Government’s desire for speed but we think there is a better way for the State Government to achieve its objectives,” Alderman Valentine said.
“Rather than stepping completely outside the current Planning System which is underpinned by strategic considerations, we propose that the State work more closely with Local Government to plan projects.”
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The STCA welcomes Margie Jenkin as part time Project Officer (fixed term until the end of November 2009).
Margie will be progressing nationally strategic control in Southern Tasmania of Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera) and Asparagus weeds, including Bridal creeper (Asparagus asparagoides) and Asparagus fern (Asparagus scandens).
Over the past five years, Margie has worked as a Ranger on Maria Island with Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service, and in Wellington Park with the Wellington Park Management Trust. She has a keen interest in habitat restoration, and welcomes the opportunity to practice her passion for weed control!
This project aims to contract Boneseed containment lines into core areas, and to map and treat all Asparagus Weed infestations in Southern Tasmania.
These treatments will enrol local councils, private landowners, community groups and contractors. Public awareness and training opportunities will also be developed to heighten weed recognition and best practices for control.
The Southern Tasmanian Youth Transitions Taskforce, Management Committee, meeting dates for 2009 will be the second Tuesday in the month.
The meetings will be in the Board Room, Level 3, 85 Macquarie Street, at 9.30am:
February 10, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8.
St John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a Declared Weed under the Weed Management Act 1999 and is a high priority weed for the Southern NRM Region in Tasmania. St John’s wort aggressively invades roadsides, pastures, grasslands, woodlands, railway lines, forestry areas and riverbanks. Now is the best time to keep your eye out along roadsides and in paddocks for this serious weed.
