Febfast Helping Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS)
febfast helping Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) – Every day of the year, over 160 young adults seek alcohol and drug support services. Youth Support + Advocacy Services (YSAS) is a leading youth health not-for-profit agency that enables highly vulnerable and high risk young people, or those at risk of becoming so, with substance dependence and misuse, mental illness and social disconnection to take control of their health and wellbeing. Established in 1998, YSAS has now supported over 20000 highly vulnerable young Victorians, or those at risk of becoming so. Over half of the young people supported in 2011-12 either ceased or significantly reduced their drug use. YSAS asks all Australians to look beyond the stereotype of those struggling with drug, alcohol and mental health issues, and see youth in a different light — as individuals with rights, strengths and their own hopes for the future. In 2013, febfast will fund YSAS in providing Victoria’s only youth-specific rehabilitation service with critical ‘adventure experiential learning’ programs, and funding experienced assertive outreach workers in Melbourne’s western and south eastern suburbs. For more information, visit febfast.org.au/whereyourmoneygoes
LETTER: Music unites us all
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Regardless of the segregation laws, black and white teenagers united on the concert floor to enjoy this new music that was created. In the 1960s the … People find solace in music and many feel that it has saved them from a life of drug abuse and …
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The Horses Cure
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“American Indian and Alaska Native youth have the highest suicide rates in the country,” said Richard McKeon, chief of the suicide prevention branch of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). To begin to abate …
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Convicted sex offender found living at motel to avoid arrest
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… the rise in young adults. Using an indoor tanning bed before the age of 25 increases your chances of getting melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, by 75 percent, so why do teens and young adults continue to do it? We take a closer look.More …
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