Young People

Cornerstone Youth Services Inc. (CYS) delivers a range of services to young people aged 12 – 25, their families and friends, in North and North-West Tasmania. We focus on health promotion, education, early intervention and prevention, advocacy, case management and developing help-seeking behaviours.

As a parent or guardian, what do you need to know about drug and alcohol laws? This factsheet from Positive Choices is a good place to start.

Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free (even from a mobile), confidential 24/7 online and phone counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25.

Qualified counsellors at Kids Helpline are available via WebChat, phone or email anytime and for any reason.

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In this video, two young people discuss their experiences with drug use: why they started using, what impact that had on their lives, and how they sought help.

This video was dreamed up, scripted, and acted out by some of my amazing 8th grade students from Kalispell Middle School. The vision was to create a thought provoking short film that instills a challenge to the viewer to look at their own life, their own relationships, and their own sphere of influence, and see where a little empathy could help change the world around them.

A general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.

In this short video, parents and teenagers talk about how rules and boundaries can support pre-teens and teenagers as they develop independence. Rules and boundaries can help, even as teenagers get closer to adulthood. Trust and communication is a big part of this. You can also see how different parents have different expectations about boundaries.

As one mum says, ‘Sometimes they want you to say no ... it makes them feel safe’.

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"With children of more permissive parents, psychological research has shown they have difficulty following rules, they can have less self control and can encounter more problems in their relationships and social interactions.''

In this video from the Australian Childhood Foundation, we look at what's happening inside a child's brain as they grow - and how this might affect your experience as a carer.

One thing we all have in common is that we all go through the human life cycle, which goes from infancy to childhood to adolescence to adulthood to old age and to death. Learn more about adolescence - or being a teenager - in this video from Mind Matters Australia.

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It’s common to feel exasperated trying to set limits and respond when limits are breached (especially around drug use). This factsheet from the Victorian Youth Drug and Alcohol Advice Service provides some ideas that may help you.

High school-aged young people are at a critical stage of development. There are concerns that a person who uses alcohol and other drugs (AOD) during this stage, may experience significant AOD harms in the future.

Delaying uptake as long as possible can help to reduce harms.

This in-depth Research Paper from the Australian Drug Foundation explores the evidence underpinning different interventions, programs and campaigns and describes strategies to prevent and delay AOD use by 12-17 year-olds.

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