Other Publications
Under Strain
By Youth Access, April 2010
Description: Policy Briefing showing how the recession and public spending squeeze:
• have increased young people’s mental health and advice needs;
• have overstretched the capacity of the YIACS services who strive to meet those needs; and
• have left services Under Strain and at real risk for the future.
Youth Access sets out a policy to support YIACS to continue to provide their proven effective services which young people so desperately need.
Download: Under Strain
The impact of the recession on young people and on their needs for advice and counselling services
By Youth Access, June 2009
Description: Youth Access Policy Briefing setting out how the recession will affect young people's needs for advice and counselling and why meeting those needs is a crucial part of any recession response.
Download: The impact of the recession on young people and on their needs for advice and counselling services
The Facts About Young People and Recession
By Steve Lee, Youth Access, June 2009
Description: A policy briefing paper for YIACS providing detailed evidence on how the economic downturn has and is likely to continue to impact on young people and demand for advice, counselling and other support services. Useful for funding applications and local campaigning.
Download: The Facts About Young People and Recession
Youthstat
By James Kenrick, 2002
Description: Youthstat is a sophisticated statistical classification system developed by Youth Access to assist agencies in the recording, monitoring and evaluation of their work with young people. It comprises comprehensive schedules of: enquiry and presenting issue categories user profile monitoring categories work profile monitoring categories Youthstat has been designed to enable agencies to tailor the stats schedules to meet their precise and unique needs, however complex or simple they may be.
Download: Youthstat
Getting it Right
By Youth Access, 2001
Description: This brief guide to Youth Access's Quality Standards will be helpful to statutory bodies, charitable trusts and other funders who want to obtain best practice in the youth information, advice, counselling and support services which they are seeking to fund. Whilst the guide is primarily directed at funders, it will also be of relevance to policy-makers and commissioners. It does not replace the need for existing providers of these services to obtain the full manual.
Download: Getting it Right
Building User Involvement
By Carolyn Mumby, 2001
Description: This guide is aimed at helping young people’s information, advice, counselling and support services explore user involvement. It focuses on user involvement as a Continuum from communication and consultation, through to more active participation in delivering and managing services. It draws on the experiences of young people themselves and colleagues from within the field in order to outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of various types of involvement. Finally, it describes ways of ensuring that the involvement of young people is more that a passing fad, but something that is consistent and sustainable.
Download: Building User Involvement
Getting Started
By Youth Access, 1998
Description: This guide is a useful starting point for anyone wishing to get involved in setting up a youth information, advice and counselling service. It attempts to raise many of the issues associated with this specialist form of provision, such as steering groups, gathering evidence of need, staffing, information systems and evaluation.
Download: Getting Started
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