Compiled by the South Sydney Youth Service, Speak Out is a book about the experience of living with a mental health issue. Speak Out contains insightful stories from young people about their lives, struggles and triumphs and is designed to demystify mental health issues for young people and others.
To initiate thoughtful conversations between boys, their peers and their teachers the Boys in Schools Program has produced the Being A Man photopak. The 52 black-and-white photos show boys, young men and older men in diverse roles and settings provoking immediate and powerful responses to what it means to ‘be a man’ in the world today. More info
This book is rich with case material and artwork samples and demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Contributors include experienced practitioners of play, art, music, movement and drama therapies, bibliotherapy, and integrative therapies, who describe step-by-step strategies for working with individual children, families, and groups. The case-based format makes the book is especially practical and user-friendly. Specific topics include: stressful experiences, parental loss, child abuse, accidents, family violence, school violence, bullying, and mass trauma. Broader approaches to promoting resilience and preventing posttraumatic problems... More info
This resource kit takes a strengths perspective by focusing on what is going right or what's working in a young person's life, and is adaptable to a wide range of community and education settings. The resources can be used by a wide range of workers (school counsellors, youth workers, social workers and community development workers) involved with young people ages 9-16 years. The kit contains tear-off blocks (50 copies) of the Resilience Identification Checklist and the Resilience Circle, and a user-friendly manual. More info
