“Young people make up 54 per cent of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population and look up to the example set by generations past and present to navigate ever-changing and complex social and health issues.
We are thrilled to announce an illustrious line-up of speakers at the NACCHO Youth Conference and are expecting to host around 100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth delegates from across the country.
The conference will provide opportunities to explore and discuss issues of importance to young people, their families and communities, and help shape our youth towards becoming tomorrow’s leader.”
NACCHO Acting Chair, Donnella Mills.
The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) will today host its annual National Youth Conference, Members’ Conference and AGM from 4–7 November 2019 at the Darwin Convention Centre, commencing with the Youth Conference on 4 November.
The 2019 theme for the Members’ Conference is Because of Them, We Must! Improving health outcomes for people aged 0-to-29-year-olds. In line with the theme follows the central focus on building resilience for the NACCHO Youth Conference Healthy youth, healthy future.
NACCHO is thrilled to announce some of the featured speakers for the 2019 Youth Conference which include:
Preston Campbell, Former NRL star, community leader and founder of the Preston Campbell Foundation;
Brooke Blurton, Noongar-Yamatji woman, social media influencer and youth advocate;
Jarlyn Spinks and Katy Crawford of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service (KAMS) team for the campaign ‘Her Rules Her Game’ which celebrates the strength of Aboriginal women playing football in the Kimberley region;
Marlee Silva, Gamilaroi-Dunghutti woman and Co-Founder of #tiddas4tiddas, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s empowerment social media initiative;
Brendan Dunn of the Coalition of Peaks Secretariat in Canberra;
Dr.Mangatjay Mcgregor, Yolgnu man from Milingimbi and intern doctor at the Royal Darwin Hospital;
Oliver Tye, Noongar man based on Ngunnawal Country in the ACT and Policy Officer at NACCHO.
Part 2 Closing the Gap / Have your say about youth issues
Deadline extended to Friday, 8 November 2019.
The engagements are now in full swing across Australia and this is generating more interest than we had anticipated in our survey on Closing the Gap.
The Coalition of Peaks has had requests from a number of organisations across Australia seeking, some Coalition of Peak members and some governments for more time to promote and complete the survey.
We want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to have their say on what should be included in a new agreement on Closing the Gap so it is agreed to extend the deadline for the survey to Friday, 8 November 2019.
This will help build further understanding and support for the new agreement and will not impact our timeframes for negotiating with government as we were advised at the most recent Partnership Working Group meeting that COAG will not meet until early 2020.
There is a discussion booklet that has background information on Closing the Gap and sets out what will be talked about in the survey.
The survey will take a little bit of time to complete. It would be great if you can answer all the questions, but you can also just focus on the issues that you care about most.
To help you prepare your answers, you can look at a full copy here
The survey is open to everyone and can be accessed here:
https://www.naccho.org.au/programmes/coalition-of-peaks/have-your-say/