Young People In Focus

GRIEF ENCOUNTER
Grief Encounter Project, by Shelley Gilbert

NEW

Grief encounter is a workbook designed to encourage conversations about death between children and adults.

Extremely well written, accessible in its language and approach, with strong appeal to ordinary parents and children faced with bereavement. There is nothing scary about this book; it is hands-on, user-friendly and full of useful ideas to help a child understand his or her feelings. It will also help the parent/guardian to understand the child and find a way to bring comfort together. I wish I had been given the guidance of a book like this, to show me a way to open up and share my feelings of bereavement as a child.

Helen Levene, Editor Puffin Books.

The Grief Encounter Project supply bereaved families with a free copy of this workbook please contact them if this applies to you wwww.griefencounter.com

YOUNG ADULTS TODAY - KEY DATA ON 16-25 YEAR OLDS TRANSITIONS, DISADVANTAGES AND CRIME
Kerry Devitt, Lucy Knighton, Kevin Lowe, Young People in Focus 2009

NEW

This new publication from Young People in Focus is the first of its kind. It brings together key data on young adults, 16-25, exploring topics such as: health and wellbeing; education and employment; family life; social life and crime, with a specific focus on vulnerable young adults and those within the criminal justice system. Packed with up-to-date facts and figures.

"Ensuring that socially excluded adults are offered the chance to get back on a path to a more successful life is a government priority. A focus on young adults is crucial. But you need to be clear what the issues are - this publication provides the 'hard facts' that policy makers and service providers need." Naomi Eisenstadt - Director, Director, Social Exclusion Task Force

90pp

ISBN: 978 187 1504 97

KEY DATA ON ADOLESCENCE 2009 (7th edition)John Coleman and Fiona Brooks Young People in Focus 2009

"This book is recognised as the most authoritative guide to young people today"
Youth worker, North London

The 7th Edition of this popular publication is a collaboration between the Young People in Focus and the Association for Young People's Health (AYPH). There is a strong emphasis on health, with two chapters devoted to physical health.

KEY MESSAGES INCLUDE

- 1.8 million children and young people in the UK live in workless households

-The numbers not in education, employment or training (NEETs) remain stubbornly high

- Healthy eating is on the increase among English pupils

- The significance of wider support networks

- Alcohol consumption among the young has doubled since 1990

- Teenage pregnancy rates continue to fall

100pp

ISBN 978 1871504 859

PARENTING INSIDE AND OUT TOOLKIT
Bringing the outside in -Developing a family based approach to supporting young parents in custody. Sarah Lindfield, Young people in focus

The Parenting Inside and Out project has focused on the development of family-based parenting support for under 18 year old young fathers and mothers in custody. What we have found out from this project is mixed. There have been some very positive findings about what young parents want from parenting support and how this can be offered. This toolkit describes what we have found out during the project and we suggest ways of building on the positives we have found, as well as addressing some of the barriers.

Aims of the Toolkit

- This Toolkit aims to assist colleagues in developing family-based parenting support involving:

- Young fathers and young mothers in custody

- Their parents/carers

- The other young parent of their child

- Other key parent supporters

ISBN 978 0956145 307

EMOTION WORKS

Eddi Piper and Sue Shaw, Young People in Focus

NEW

This resource is based on the work of the Youth Voice Peer Power programme at Young People in Focus. The worksheets have been developed with young people who have shared their ideas, thoughts and feelings about emotional health and wish to pass on their experience to help others. This pack includes a CD rom containing a collection of easy to use ‘worksheets’ to print out, together with tips and suggestions on how to use them.

TEENAGE PREGNANCY: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A PROBLEM
Lisa Arai

"This book exposes an unhealthy relationship between the media and policy making, leading to the distortion of research evidence. Lucid, analytic and controversial, it is a must-read for policy makers in the present and future." Professor Rachel Thompson, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University

Teenage Pregnancy examines who is likely to have a baby as a teenager, the consequences of early motherhood and how teenage pregnancy is dealt with in the media. The author argues that society's negative attitude to young mothers is likely to marginalise an already excluded group and that efforts should be focused primarily on supporting young mothers and their children.

POSITIVE IMAGES - POSITIVE EFFECT
Paul Lee and Louise Bishop, Russell House Publishing

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything." George Lois

Positive Images - Positive Effect contains over 100 activities; each designed to increase young peoples' positive views of themselves.

They are fun, easy to use and will make a positive difference to your work and in their lives.
It explains how to facilitate these activities and how to improve your own skills in practive. The book encourages you throughout to focus on the positive aspects of young people and to seek to appreciate the good and the worth in them.

167pp

LETS TALK: FEELINGS

Games for Talking, By Sue Nicholls. Speechmark Publishing, 2009

Cards to enable people to become more aware of their feelings The cards are divided into 6 sections:

A game to give a language to our emotions.

Ages: Children to Adult