Youthworx media: youth media and social enterprise as intervention and innovation
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2013
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Podkalicka, A.M.
Meredyth, D.
Mackenzie, D.
Rennie, E.
Staley, J.
Thomas, J.
Wilson, C.
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Youthworx is a successful model of a practical, community-based, cross-sector response to the problem of youth marginalisation and social exclusion. It combines professional expertise, networks and material resources across social service delivery agencies (Salvation Army and Youth Development Australia (YDA)), youth-run community media (SYN Media), an educational provider (North Melbourne Institute of Technology TAFE (NMIT)) and research organisations (the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research (SISR)). Media training and production is used to build capacity to re-engage with learning, education and employment. After some years in development between 2008, when Youthworx effectively began operations, and 2013, the program has provided open access multimedia workshops, accredited training and, more recently, paid traineeships for more than 400 youth disconnected from formal learning, with experience of homelessness, juvenile justice or alcohol and drug abuse. Participants broadcast and distribute their works through SYN Media, local festivals and screenings, as well as online. They also make commissioned creative products for external clients and not-for-profit organisations.
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Copyright 2013 the authors. Unless otherwise noted this report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.You are free to copy, communicate and adapt this work,so long as you attribute the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the authors. (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au)