National Youth Affairs Inventory Project, 1987-91

Component identifier:

Series 18

Content Summary:

In early 1987, YACA was provided with $30,000 funding by the Youth Affairs Bureau of the Department of Employment, Education and Training to compile an inventory of non-government youth organisations operating to the national level, the services they provide, contacts and information regarding publications and journals. In June 1987 Lynley Shannahan was employed to undertake the bulk of the activities including sending questionnaires to around 100 organisations identified by YACA and processing the data received.

The resulting Youth Services Inventory System (YSIS) was designed to provide policymakers and planners including the Minister for Youth Affairs and the Youth Affairs Bureau with information on the nature and distribution of services for young people and to help streamline the production of regional or specialist directories of youth services.

A specific component of the inventory was intended to update the publication Youth media organisations in Australia (1985), containing entries for journal and newsletter editors of national youth organisations as well as contacts for community-based and mainstream media.

The records include form letters sent to organisations, replies, questionnaires, notes, directories, correspondence with DEET and others, and progress reports on the project.

See also series 25 for computer discs relating to YSIS.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were donated by the Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition in 1994, 1995 and 1997.

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