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What ‘Helping’ Means to Our Youngest Citizens
Throughout January 2020, Helen Connolly, SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young People visited South Australian Early Learning Centres to ask children what they thought was meant by the term ‘helping’.
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Get Around It Zine launched
Twelve months ago this week, Commissioner for Children and Young People launched Get Around It - an initiative aimed at showcasing young South Australian thinkers, makers, and doers. This week as part of Youth Week 2020 celebrations the Get Around...
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School is where the heart is for some SA kids
Over many years working with children and young people, I have met kids who are enthusiastic, energetic, optimistic and idealistic. I have also met kids who are frustrated and desperate, angry, heartbroken and lost. These two kinds of children and...
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Managing Uncertainty for Positive Change
These are certainly challenging times. It's very difficult to take a ‘business as usual’ approach when it looks increasingly as though the long term impact of COVID19 will be profound. In times of uncertainty it’s how we choose to respond that...
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Commissioner brings Cambridge expert to Youth Migrant Education Forum
Commissioner Helen Connolly with young refugees and education expert Professor Colleen McLaughlin at the Youth Education and Employment Forum hosted by the Australian Migrant Resource Centre...
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Children’s Laureate meets with 100 child writers at SA State Library!
At the start of this year's Writer's Festival, South Australia's Commissioner for Children and Young People brought 100 South Australian children together to celebrate children's reading, writing and creativity at her inaugural ‘Children’s Stories’...
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Young people “make history” at Commissioner’s first Regional Youth Forum
In what was perhaps the largest-ever gathering of regional young people in regional South Australia, 150 students participated in the Commissioner for Children and Young People’s Regional Youth Forum in Burra this week. “We are making history...
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Young creatives learn valuable Arts administration skills with Carclew
Working in partnership with the South Australian Youth Arts organisation Carclew, Commissioner Helen Connolly this year set out to empower young people to distribute arts funding. The inaugural ‘Carclew Futures’ project gave ten creatives...
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‘Leave No One Behind’ say 200 young people at The Poverty Summit
More than 200 young people gathered at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Friday 28 June for the 2019 Poverty Summit, hosted by the SA Commissioner for Children and Young People Helen Connolly, in partnership with UN Youth South Australia. Open to all...
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Commissioner helps present Being. In Space at the Dream Big Festival
Commissioner Helen Connolly partnered with multiple local and international groups to put on the first ever Being. In Space event at the 2019 SA Dream Big Children’s Festival. Held in the Bicentennial Conservatory at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens,...
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