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Review and Update of Greater Bendigo Youth Strategy

Project Reference Group

MEETING THREE – 22 September 2016

3.00-5.00pm – Green Room, 45 Mundy

Minutes

Meeting: David Williamson (Chair), Andrew Quek, Lindy Wilson, Nikki Williams, Georgie Hyett, Dan Rees, Ben Keath, Bethea Robertson, Natalie Jacobson, Wendy Holland (Project Consultant), Rory White, Lucy – Student placement with Lindy.

Apologies: Paul Taylor, Linda Lyons, Steve Abbott, Jordan Tamblyn. Agenda Item Notes Actions  Actions from previous minutes – completed 1 City Update:  Communications Plan  Finalise media release o Media release  Communications Plan Nikki/David o Project bulletin o Media releases: The media release is still in draft form o Website and awaiting release. This will include links to both the  Background  Draft Project Bulletin 1 next youth and agency survey and young people’s comments. Documents: week o Youth Profile Nikki/David o Review Polices and Plans  Bendigo Senior o Project bulletins: aimed at community, agencies and City Secondary College of Greater Bendigo staff. Provide more in-depth  All information including

1 o Meeting SRC information than media release. project brief, media releases,  Questions and bulletins and draft reports will Discussion posted on the YO Bendigo website

o City of Greater Bendigo website: New city website launched 12 September 2016. The new website is much clearer to navigate and has less text than the previous version. Information about the  Draft Review of Plans and Youth Strategy will be placed on the Young Communities Policies Due 20 October 2016 for page however all the Youth Strategy content will be circulation to PRG posted to the YO Bendigo website for easier access. Georgie/ Nikki

 Background Documents

o Review of Plans and Policies:  Draft Youth Profile Review of Federal, State and City of Greater Bendigo Due 20 October 2016 policies and plans for relevance to young people Nikki/Sophie especially trends and gaps.

Policies exhibit recognition of themes such as:

. Education, training and upskilling,

. Youth friendly areas,

. Arts and culture,

2 . Personal safety

o Youth Profile:

Document has been separated into two parts. First is the Demographic Profile including population statistics and forecasts with maps and graphs showing growth areas across Greater Bendigo.

The second part is the Youth Profile. This includes topic areas that have been identified through the 2013-2016 Youth Strategy, 2014/2015 Youth Summits and the 2015 Youth Wellbeing Survey. Topic areas include:

. Health and Wellbeing

o Mental Health and Wellbeing

o Sexual Health and Relationships

o Drugs and Alcohol?

. Education, Training and Employment

. Personal Safety

. Housing/Homelessness

. Infrastructure and facilities

. Rural Young people

3 . Participation in community life

 Bendigo Senior Secondary College Student Representative Council Rory, Dan, Georgie met with BSSC SRC on 9 September 2016 to invite members to become part of the Youth Strategy PRG. Students have yet to confirm their attendance at the PRG meetings. However the November meeting is being held at 4pm to allow students to attend after school if they can.

The Youth Team have offered assistance in planning events such as the school formal as a way to build relationships with the SRC.

2 Consultant Update: . Consultations to be finished by mid-October.  Consultations  See analysis of outcomes from  Youth Summit Youth Summit attached  Youth Survey . Youth Summit – 7 September 2016 Nikki/Wendy  Agency Survey  Youth . 65 young people attended Consultation Sessions . Average age of students was 12-15  Benchmarking  Service Mapping . Five schools attended

 Eaglehawk Secondary College

 Crusoe College

 Bendigo Technical Education College

 Bendigo South East Secondary

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 Marist College Bendigo

. Two guest speakers, Jake Edwards from Outside the Locker Room and Erin Ryan from 3BO FM. Analysis to inform upcoming consultations, survey and Agency Students were asked five central questions and their responses will Forum. inform the development of key themes/pillars that will underpin the Wendy/Nikki/David/PRG new Strategy

. The 5 questions asked of young people were:

. What do you think needs to happen to make Greater Bendigo a better place for young people? All these points to also be considered . How would you like Council to involve young people in Youth Strategy and reflected in more? strategic directions. Wendy/Nikki/David/PRG . How would you like Council to listen or talk to young people?

. How could you help to make City of Greater Bendigo a better place for young people?  Circulate to Youth and Agency Survey links to PRG members . What skills or support do you need to help make the Monday 26 September community a better place? Nikki  Each member of PRG to aim to . Key messages that emerged form responses. We would like get 5-10 surveys filled out by to: young people. PRG . Contribute  PRG members to complete an

5 . Participate agency survey.

. Be included

. Be supported  PRG members welcome to attend . Be heard sessions to assist Wendy. If interested please contact Wendy . Be empowered to make decisions to let her know of your availability [email protected] . Be informed

 Andrew Quek will attend La Trobe session Mon 10 Oct at The summary of analysis showed young people are recommending 4.30pm ideas/programs that build on similar programs being delivered by the City with some new approaches and suggestions for improvements. Action: Rory

For example having:

 Improved social media presence,  Youth and Agency Surveys  Creating new avenues for participation around dialogue with the City and advocacy and hearing young people’s voices. For example there was a suggestion to have a Youth Council would be a more developed and formal version of the current  Design invitation Youth Action Group or lead to participatory forums like a Nikki/Georgie/Rory Young People’s Panel focussed on particular issues or Citizen  Invite to be sent out before the Jury, end of the week 30 September 2016.  Contact via visiting schools, Nikki  Invite list sent to PRG to see if  Supporting young people to run events, there are any additional invites to be made.

6  More surveys; and Georgie/Nikki/PRG

 Skills workshops.

 Establish an internal contact list to The City needs to investigate more opportunities or different and send Bulletins and share findings creative ways to promote events/programs. For example: from consultations with young  Consultation people and inform about the . sessions with young Cross promotion of events – for example promote Easter Youth Strategy Process. Eg: Festival as side show for Groovin the Moo. people o Karen Cresswell o Vanessa Wait . Utilise different social media platforms – Snapchat, o Events Instragram o Art gallery . Better promotion of activities/events – TV advertising, school o Trevor Budge newsletters, school visits o Community Partnerships Unit

Possibility of sending the Consultation Report to the schools and the Education Council.

. Youth Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/59RN5Y7

. Survey includes tick boxes for youth issues. It asks young people to tick the three issues of most

7 importance or concern to you and then answer similar questions to Youth Summit.

. Survey will be sent out through PRG members and their networks and link posted on YO Bendigo.

. Aim is for 100 youth surveys to be completed.  Agency Forum . Wednesday 12 October Survey is open until 5pm Monday 10 October 2016 2016

. Agency Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/59QZZJS

. Survey includes questions about key focus areas, geographical location, target groups, sources of funding, what are the three issues of most importance or concern for your youth target group and then answer similar questions to Youth Summit.

. Survey is open until 5pm Friday 14 October 2016  Benchmarking with other local governments

. Consultation sessions planned for:

. Tue 27 Sept at 10.45am, at the Mews - young pregnant and parents program (YPPP)

. Mon 3 Oct at 9.20am, Eaglehawk Secondary College -  Service mapping Indigenous young women

. Wed 5 Oct at 3.30pm, Weeroona College - Karen

8 students at

. Mon 10 Oct at 4.30pm at La Trobe University - university students (LTU will supply incentives)

. Thu 13 Oct at 4.30pm at headpsace- LGBT

. Week beginning 3 October - an English or sociology class at BSSC – to be confirmed

Note –The City is currently researching the effectiveness of its communications and promotions. Peter Hargreaves from Executive Office has asked for a small forum of young people to talk about their views concerning the City’s communications.

Notes – YACVic and the Office for Youth are holding a series of Youth Forums focusing on Turning Ideas into Action across Victoria between now and the end of the year. The Minister for Youth has identified Bendigo as a site for one of these forums and we would like to work with the City of Greater Bendigo to co-host the forum with us if possible? There are two parts of this event – a 2 hour free sector training in Co-design from the office for youth to take place in the afternoon, and a 2 hour workshop with young people in the early evening facilitated by YACVic focusing on local issues and youth action.

9 . Forum to be held 9.30-12.30pm on 12 October 2016

in Reception Room upstairs at Lyttleton Terrace at City of Greater Bendigo Officers

. Lunch provided

. Overview of day

. Youth Strategy overview – its purpose, background, methodology

. Results of Youth Strategy consultations

. Group sessions/workshopping questions

. Reporting back

. Where to from here

. Benchmarking

. Wendy will contact other councils when more informed after consultations sessions.

10 . Service mapping

. To be part of the agency forum and to be mapped by issues to see if there are any gaps in services.

. How do we understand programs and events as well as services agencies for at risk young people?

. Possibly map internal City of Greater Bendigo service units to see what is

4 Discussion and Milestones:  Discussion – Citizen Jury will present report to the Council Forum 5 October 2016. Unsure at this time if the Jury’s report will be made public. Then there will be a Council Report about the Citizen Jury going to the next Council meeting. Nikki/David/Wendy/PRG  Milestones  20 October - Draft reports ready eg Youth Profile/ Demographic Profile, Review of Plans and Policies, Benchmarking with other local governments and Service mapping and circulated for next PRG.  3 November PRG – Meeting to discuss the outcomes of the stakeholder engagement activities, to discuss priority areas for inclusion in the draft strategy and draft reports  November – Wendy on leave as of the 4 November  December – Draft report submitted to PRG for

11 consideration  Dec 2016/Jan 2017 – Draft report discussed by PRG and edited  February/March – Draft finalised ready for presentation to relevant City Director and Managers. Title of Strategy confirmed.  April – Present report to Councillors  May – Period of public exhibition. Could be 4 -6 weeks where Draft Youth Strategy is open for formal public comment and feedback. Likely to hold a consultation event during this time with young people. Eg Panel  June – Report to Council on public comments, submissions  July – Present final Youth Strategy to Council for endorsement and launch. 5 Next meeting: 4-5.45pm, 3 November 2016 Green Room, 45 Mundy – later meeting to accommodate students that may like to attend. Please send apologies to Nikki [email protected]