Here, we summarise our research that covers issues relevant to young people and rangatahi in New Zealand.
Focuses on youth who aren't having their needs well met according to our evaluation of the Prime Minister's Youth Mental Health Project (YMHP). Includes LGBT youth, youth with disabilities, youth at schools without YMHP services, and young people who have experienced major life traumas. Youth living in Christchurch also report higher risk factors than those living in other areas of the country.
Youth Mental Health Project: Improving youth mental health - What has worked, what else could be done
Flags potential ways to improve mental health services and overcome barriers experienced by youth and providers, for example, addressing ongoing stigma around mental health, services being more connected and youth-friendly.
Looks at high-level findings on the most established types of digital tools for delivering wellbeing support, then digs deeper to learn about good practices from particular cases.
Adolescence is a key time when many young people begin to experience romantic and sexual relationships. For some of these young people it also includes some form of violence and/or abuse, yet most intervention and prevention programmes target adults. This report is written by the Family Violence Clearinghouse, the funding for which was managed by Superu until November 2017.
Looks at how at-risk children and youth go on to achieve good employment and education outcomes, and investigates the key factors that contribute to these good outcomes. The full report can be viewed here.
Summarises teenagers giving birth in New Zealand. Spoiler alert: fewer teenagers are giving birth.
Investigates what's known about families of the past and today, and whether the demographic transition and resulting family changes have irrevocably altered the way that families perform.
Presents a high level demographic overview of the family types used in the Families and Whānau Status Report 2015.
Looks at the major challenges of stepfamily life and the strategies that families use to address these challenges. Parents, stepparents and older stepchildren from 44 stepfamilies participated in the study.
International evidence shows that school-based relationship violence prevention programmes are one of the few strategies that help prevent intimate partner violence. We looked at the evidence and relevant literature on ‘what works’ in school-based relationship education programmes both within New Zealand and internationally for years 7 – 13.