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Puketāpapa
Local Board
26 February
2015
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Puketapapa
Youth Connections and Youth Development Budget
File No.: CP2015/02104
Purpose
1. The purpose of
this report is to seek local board approval for youth connections and youth
development expenditure.
Executive
Summary
2. The Puketāpapa
local board allocated $30,000 towards Youth Connections and $30,600 towards
youth development funding for the 2014/2015 year. To date CDAC staff activity
has focused on utilising 2013/14 budgets which were allocated in June 2014.
3. 2014/2015 expenditure
to date totals $1,000 for Youth Connections; no expenditure has yet been made
against youth development. Staff propose that the funding from both budgets be
used in the following way.
Youth
Connections:
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Activity
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Expenditure
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Coordinated
Youth Services Hubs
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$17,000
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Steering
Group Establishment
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$2,000
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Employer
Engagement
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$10,000
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Total
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$29,000
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Youth
Development (Puketāpapa Youth Action Plan):
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Activity
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Expenditure
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Connect-ed UP
(Purakau)
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$2,000
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Puketāpapa
Youth Summit
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$5,000
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Youth
engagement, development and family programmes
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$7,000
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Payd UP
Grants
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$5,000
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Mentoring
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$10,000
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Youth Caucus
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$1,000
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C-Dub
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$600
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Total
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$30,600
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Recommendation/s
That the Puketāpapa Local
Board:
a) allocate
$17,000 for ongoing development of coordinated youth services hubs
b) allocate
$2,000 to establish a youth employment steering group
c) allocate $10,000
to create and implement an engagement plan for local business and employers
d) allocate $30,600
for the continued implementation of the Puketāpapa Youth Action Plan
2013-2015.
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Comments
Coordinated Youth Services Hub
4. The Youth
Connections project has identified significant barriers which prevent young
people from entering into employment, both locally and across the region. The
way the ‘transitions sector’ is structured contributes to these barriers.
5. Coordinated
services hubs have been developed as a solution to this problem. The hubs
bring together the many stakeholders in the youth employment system to work
together to help young people into employment. Key hub principles have been
developed and the concept has been trialled at Roskill Youth Zone.
6. In January
2015, nine stakeholders participated in the Roskill Youth Zone hub pilot. This
trial highlighted the importance of increased visibility of the services
available to young people, the connection between the services and the level of
trust required across all relationships. These are imperative for a successful
hub.
7. In the next
phase, up to four existing youth hub locations will be established at the
following locations across the local board area:
· Mount Roskill Grammar School
· Lynfield Rec and Youth centre
· Roskill South REC Youth Development
· Roskill Youth Zone.
8. The hubs will
focus on networking between stakeholders and service visibility. Each hub will
support a youth leadership team to develop and implement a networking event.
Each event will be followed by a series of workshops relevant to the needs of
local young people (for example mental health, drivers licensing, CV creation)
and will also provide service delivery agencies the opportunity to increase
their visibility to local young people.
9. Staff propose
that the local board allocate $17,000 to fund this next phase of hub
development. This would fund costs such as venue hire, logistics and promotion
for a minimum of three events, three workshop series, and marketing for the hub
concept. Hub locations and their staff, along with stakeholders such as youth
service agencies, are expected to manage and maintain the hubs themselves once
the programme is stabilised. This is expected to take place by the end of 2015.
Establishment
of a Puketāpapa Youth Employment Steering Group
10. A cross-sector
of the Puketāpapa community have been selected by local board members and
invited to a breakfast on 25 February to discuss the establishment of a
steering group. Staff propose the local board allocate $2,000 from the Youth
Connections budget to establish the steering group, to fund the breakfast
event.
11. Staff recommend
establishing a steering group to:
· advise on the development of local
youth employability actions
· develop goals and priority initiatives
for the Puketāpapa Local Board’s Youth Connections programme
· connect businesses and communities, to
increase programme engagement across Puketāpapa.
Employer
Engagement
12. Engaging
employers into Youth Connections as key partners is a critical factor in seeing
all young people engaged in education, training or employment. Staff propose
that the steering group focus on employer engagement, and that the local board
allocate $10,000 from the remainder of the Youth Connections budget for the current
financial year to enable this.
13. Based on the
employer engagement initiatives delivered by other local boards, such as
employer research, a business breakfast, and the employers’ pledge, staff
estimate that an allocation of $10,000 is sufficient to resource activity in
Puketāpapa to the same effect. This funding would be spent at the
steering group’s discretion; the steering group would be chaired by and
accountable to the Puketāpapa local board directly.
14. Setting the
steering group work programme in this way is expected to have an additional
benefit of providing a true co-working environment, encouraging partnership and
group cohesion.
Youth
Action Plan
15. The
Puketāpapa local board provided $3,000 from the 2012/2013 budget to fund
the creation of the Puketāpapa Youth Action Plan. This followed on from
the 2012 Puketāpapa Youth Needs Assessment.
16. This plan was
created in 2013 by Ant Backhouse of I Have a Dream Foundation. The plan
contains both new and existing initiatives, and is a living document that sits
equally in the community and council with shared motivations, outcomes and
contributions.
17. The
Puketāpapa Local Board contributed $40,000 towards the plan’s
implementation in the 2013/2014 financial year, enabling the development and
implementation of the initiatives outlined below. Funding is now sought to
enable the continued development and delivery of these initiatives for the
2015/2015 financial year as follows:
· Connect-ed UP (Purakau Website)
$2,000: Support for youth organisation ‘Raise Up
Puketāpapa’ to facilitate a group of local young people to keep this
important platform current and relevant to a variety of stakeholders.
· Puketāpapa Youth Summit
$5,000: For emerging youth leaders within
Puketāpapa. The focus for this, the 5th Puketāpapa Youth
Summit, will be more intensive development practices such as advocacy,
negotiation and academic mentoring
· Youth Engagement, Development and
Family Programmes $7,000: A coordinated programme
of mentoring for young people within three local intermediate schools (Years
seven and eight), delivered in partnership by the Salvation Army, Roskill
Baptist and 24-7 Youth Work.
· Payd-UP Grants, $5,000: Continuation of the successful ‘for youth, by youth’ grant scheme
designed and delivered by the Puketāpapa Youth Caucus, this funding pool
provides grants to local young people to deliver projects in Puketāpapa.
· Mentoring, $10,000: Contract a professional mentoring agency/service such as Brothers
in Arms or Mentoring New Zealand to provide recruitment, training and on-going
professional support of mentors. The aim is to generate a supply of
adults/young adults to walk alongside and guide young people on their journeys.
· Youth Caucus, $1,000: To continue the existing Puketāpapa Youth Caucus, maintaining
a mechanism for young people to communicate directly with the local board on
behalf of the local youth community.
· C Dub, $600: C-dub is the Puketāpapa youth development network, a database
of 84 youth development, youth service or youth support practitioners that has
been operating for 5 years. This funding is to support delivery of the network
meetings by contracting a local community development practitioner to
coordinate the meetings.
Consideration
Local
Board Views and Implications
18. The local board
allocated the umbrella Youth Connections and youth development budgets of
$30,000 and $30,600 respectively. Discussions regarding the allocation of those
budgets have progressed via the youth portfolio holder. This is the first time
the local board has considered the specific recommendations contained in this
report.
19. These proposals
have the support of the local board youth portfolio holder.
Maori
Impact Statement
20. While Maori are
not being specifically targeted, staff expect Maori young people will
participate in and benefit from the projects described in this report.
Implementation
Issues
21. The projects
outlined in this report will be delivered by CDAC staff in partnership with the
local community, local businesses and support agencies. Currently 40 youth focused organisations and groups are connected
with the Puketāpapa Youth Action Plan.
22. The work of
Youth Connections in Puketāpapa is embedded into the wider community
development work and is informed by the views of the C-Dub youth network, the
Roskill Community Network and the partners in the Coordinated Youth Services
Hub project.
Attachments
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this report.
Signatories
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Authors
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Carminia Adona - PA/Business Coordinator
Roger Earp - Senior Facilitator
Manawa Idu - Community Development
Facilitator (Ctrl
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Authorisers
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Graham Bodman - Manager - Community Development, Arts
and Culture
Victoria Villaraza - Relationship Manager
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