Youth Participation as a Strategy for Healthy
Development

Youth Tutors — Kendyl Stenning, Jen Chapman, Laura Jardine, Kathryn Patchett and Bryony Bruce

+ Dr Sue Bagshaw

Abstract

A Summary of the New Zealand Aotearoa Government’s Youth Development Strategy will be presented. Much of the strategy focuses on forming connections across the areas in which adolescents live — whanau (family), school, peers and community. Strategies for forming connections will be work shopped, including the ways in which youth participation can be promoted and facilitated in many areas of life. These will include youth programmes, youth health services, schools, churches, businesses, local councils, and government.