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- ‘Cover Books in Nutella’ and other creative ways to encourage children to read
- ‘EndoBox’ to make young people’s lives better
- ‘Leave No One Behind’ say 200 young people at The Poverty Summit
- ‘Leave no one behind’ say 200 young people at the Poverty Summit 2019
- ‘TWEENS’ — never listened to, and almost always talked at. But we can change all that…
- ‘Welcoming Spaces for Young People’ Launches in Victoria Square Tarntanyangga
- “Adulty” Things
- $10,000 in Carclew arts funding distributed by SA children
- 2018 SA – Listening to the Hopes and Dreams of Regional Kids
- 2019 Federal Election Priorities for South Australia’s Children and Young People
- A longitudinal measure of wellbeing for SA children and young people
- A road map for the future and bullying prevention
- A way forward to stop children falling off the cliff… a new child protection strategy from SA Gov
- A whole new world for Northern Sound System students
- ABC announces four outstanding Heywire Winners from South Australia
- Action on menstruation matters much more than we think says Commissioner
- Adelaide’s African girls talk periods and menstruation
- Back to the future — let’s walk to school
- Being “healthy”
- Best Interests – The experiences of children and young people within the child protection system
- Calling all young creatives!
- Capturing a piece of time at Elizabeth South Primary
- CCYP Being Healthy
- Children and Young People deserve our accountability
- Children are by nature respectful
- Children born this century are growing up in a completely digital world
- Children. Contemporary Canaries in the Coal Mine?
- Children’s Commissioners and Guardians (ANZCCG) convene in Adelaide
- Children’s Laureate meets with 100 child writers at SA State Library!
- Children’s Laureate meets Children’s Commissioner in a celebration of SA children’s creativity
- Chronic Illness Survey: What to Expect Next?
- Civics and Citizenship: Free Professional Development Seminars for SA Teachers
- Civics and Citizenship: Free Professional Development Seminars for SA Teachers 2023
- Civics in the City 2023
- Commissioner brings Cambridge expert to Youth Migrant Education Forum
- Commissioner calls for SA leaders to advocate for FREE sanitary products
- Commissioner cautiously optimistic about Children’s Rights
- Commissioner challenges children to learn how to speak robot
- Commissioner Connolly calls on government to invest in school excursions to support SA families doing it tough
- Commissioner for Children and Young People logo winner announced
- Commissioner funds dozens of community projects to help normalise menstruation in SA
- Commissioner helps present Being. In Space at the Dream Big Festival
- Commissioner launches ‘Get Around It’ during Youth Week
- Commissioner launches getaroundit_sa to showcase young SA thinkers, makers and doers
- Commissioner launches new space for SA’s young people – hub.ccyp.com.au
- Commissioner launches yChange to re-engage SA young people with their citizenship
- Commissioner notes ‘little change’ on Child Rights on SA despite increased recognition of what’s needed
- Commissioner Opens Space to Dream ‘Design Thinking’ Challenge Exhibition at MOD
- Commissioner reports steady progress on SA child rights but no time for complacency
- Commissioner seeks to amplify the voices of children and young people living with disability
- Commissioner signs Family Matters Statement of Commitment for Aboriginal children and young people
- Commissioner surveys young people about COVID-19 vaccines and restrictions
- Commissioner to speak at international conference on menstrual dignity amongst a push for FREE sanitary products in schools
- Commissioner urges leaders to listen to South Australia’s regional young people
- Commissioner welcomes Professor Colleen McLaughlin to Adelaide
- Commissioner’s Runabout Term 1, 2023
- Commissioner’s Runabout Term 2, 2023
- Commissioner’s Runabout Term 3
- Commissioner’s Runabout Term 3, 2023
- Commissioner’s Runabout Term 4
- Commissioner’s Small Grant Program 2023 – NOW OPEN!
- Commissioner’s Space to Dream Exhibition opens at Australian Space Discovery Centre
- Commissioner’s Systems Thinking Challenge a World First
- Commissioner’s Digital Challenge Winners Build VEX Robots @Challa Gardens Primary!
- Commissioner’s Space to Dream Exhibition Orbiting SA
- Community Engagement for Millicent Park
- Congratulations Challa Gardens Primary School for taking out the top prize in this year’s Commissioner’s Digital Challenge!
- Cost-of-Living Reality Check
- Democracy in Action Launch
- Elizabeth Grove Primary Students Idea to ‘Be a buddy not a bully’
- Ending Physical Punishment Campaign – 2023 NCPW
- Esports and gaming essential to building 21st century communities that young people will want to live in will
- Every LGBTQIA+ student has the right to feel safe at school – no exceptions
- Federal Election Priority: Place our children and young people front and centre for a change
- First National Period Summit a bloody good day!
- First Port of Call Report – November 2019
- Former NASA astronaut helps Commissioner launch new Digital Challenge into SA classrooms today!
- From vulnerable or dangerous to contributors and reformers
- Future Generations: 2020 is a pivotal year for our common future.
- Future of Work: Coming ready or not
- Gawler Youth Consultation
- Get Around It Zine launched
- Glocalism and the post COVID world
- Guide to Child Friendly Sports Clubs
- Hang out and connect in new ways on hub!
- Helen Connolly visits Port Augusta
- Helen visits the young people of Port Lincoln
- High Stakes High School – what needs to change for SA’s Year 12 students
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Adelaide Hills
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Barossa
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Ceduna
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Mid Murray
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Murray Bridge
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Riverland
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Whyalla
- Hopes and Dreams Regional Tour – Yorke Peninsula
- Hub
- Imagine Being 25: the hopes and dreams of South Australia’s regional children and young people
- Is SA’s mental health care system ‘fit for purpose’ asks Commissioner?
- It’s National Child Protection Week
- It’s time to look through the eyes of the child to see what they say makes an organisation child safe
- Jailhouse Rock – The Goyder Youth Advisory Council’s first ever Battle of the Bands
- Just over a year ago I was appointed Commissioner for Children and Young People in South Australia
- Keeping Kids Connected to Learning and School Summit #2
- Kids are learning to speak robot at PAE Libraries
- Last week many commentators, politicians, journalists and others were debating the pros and cons of the David Gonski led review into educational excellence and the report of this review — Through Growth to Achievement
- Last year children and young people told me that bullying was one of the biggest issues for them and they wanted me to do something about this in my work as Commissioner for Children and young people
- Leave No One Behind – CCYP Poverty Report
- Leigh Creek Area School Students Tour Parliament House
- Let’s stand with SA young people says Commissioner
- Listening tour BLOG
- Listening Tour Reflections
- Lobethal Community Kindergarten
- Low score for work experience
- Managing Uncertainty for Positive Change
- Marion Council consults on Safe Spaces for Young People
- Meaningful engagement with young people on how to respond to drug issues in Australia is critical
- Members of Commissioner’s new SA SRC meet for the first time
- Menstruation Matters — The need to educate boys
- Mental Health: what children and young people have told me they need from us
- Mixed Messages — we tell our young people to stand up for themselves, then criticise them when they do
- More Space to Dream at Mount Gambier Library
- More than 8,400 SA ‘Tweens’ share what matters to them most
- More than 8,400 SA ‘Tweens’ share what matters to them most
- More than babies and bodies, young people want 21st Century sex education
- Mount Gambier Youth Activation Group to co-design new Youth Space
- National Period Summit an Australian First
- National Youth Arts Summit
- New Civics & Citizenship Engagement Toolbox to enhance young people’s participation in democracy
- New state-wide SRC seeking 100 SA school students
- New Unplugged Digital Challenge for Early Learners
- Open Letter to the Australian delegates attending COP 27 on behalf of South Australia’s Children and Young People
- Over 13,868 ‘Tweens’ told their Commissioner what matters most
- Over 19,000 SA children learnt how to speak robot this year in CCYP’S Digital Challenge
- Periods. Everyone’s Business
- PICKLE app designed specially for SA young people
- Place and Space: Planning for the future with young people
- Play critical to teenage health and wellbeing new report finds
- Postcards Pack arriving at SA Schools Week 1 of Term 3.
- Public transport service ‘not okay’ say children and young people in SA
- Public Transport Survey: What to Expect Next?
- Q & A with Commissioner Connolly with Lysander and Poppy
- Re-branding South Australia with young people
- Recently I have been thinking about how to get South Australians fired up about youth unemployment
- Regional Regeneration with Young People
- Regional Youth Bus back on the road
- Rising popularity of gaming in schools prompts esports research study
- Ruby’s Community Initiatives
- SA SRC Launches the ‘Fitness for Free’ Campaign
- SA SRC Summit 2023
- SA SRC Summit: Connecting SA’s young people to decision makers
- SA SRC: Free Fares for Our Future
- SA’s young migrants and refugee youth leading on ways to shape their futures
- SA’s Young people determined to leave no-one behind
- SA’s Aboriginal young people would like more say on their future
- SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young people is giving the young voices of Port Pirie, a chance to be heard.
- SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young people is listening to the young voices of Port Augusta
- SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young people is listening to the young voices of Port Lincoln
- Safe and Sound – How children and young people view and use public transport
- School is where children should be
- School is where the heart is for some SA kids
- School is where the heart is for some SA kids
- Seeing Adelaide through the eyes of young people – Commissioner Connolly speaking at this year’s Conscious Cities Festival
- Sink or swim — learning to surf the Internet safely!
- Skye Wins Her Classmates 30 Passes to Adelaide Zoo!
- Skyrocketing Youth Unemployment must not be our Lockdown Legacy
- Small Grants, Big Impacts: Commissioner’s Small Grants Program 2023
- South Australia’s young global leaders devise their own action plan for the 2030 SDGs
- South Australian students call for comprehensive mental health support on World Mental Health Day
- Space to Dream 2022
- Space to Dream Exhibition Opens at Space Discovery Centre
- Statewide Civics & Citizenship online resource portal launched
- Statistics on Young South Australians
- Stay focused on regional young people while the future is being re-imagined
- Stirling North Primary School Media Ministers Interview Helen Connolly
- Supporting young carers to live the lives to which they’re entitled
- Taking a Systemic Approach to Child Focused Design
- Tapping Into Our Talents at the 2021 Youth Symposium Leading for Our Future
- The Power of Music
- The story so far
- The story so far
- The voice of experience – the young people asking for change in SA’s Youth Justice system
- The Who, What and How of a Year 12 Student Charter for Norwood International HS
- The world is changing for children and young people in regional communities
- This school holidays, make a plan for mucking about
- This week I had the honour of chairing a meeting with His Royal Highness, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- Too many South Australian children and young people are ‘falling off the edge’
- Understanding Inclusion via lived experience of children with disability
- Use of spit hoods deemed unacceptable
- Vaping Survey Results in National Campaign
- Vaping Survey: What to Expect Next?
- We need to support the whole family when tackling truancy
- We should ask our young people what to do about bullying
- We tell children they are important, and that they are the future, yet our actions reflect the opposite
- What ‘Helping’ Means to Our Youngest Citizens
- What children and young people think should happen when families separate
- What SA’s Children and Young People Want for the New WCYHP Plan
- When I’m 25…
- Where do the Children Play?
- Who says libraries aren’t cool?
- Whyalla Library Makes Space to Dream
- Winner announced for the SA’s Commissioner for Children and Young people logo competition
- yChange goes Open Access
- yChange launched at Parliament House during SA Youth Week (2-9 May)
- Young creatives learn valuable Arts administration skills with Carclew
- Young leaders of SA participating in a consultation with the Commissioner during her Listening Tour
- Young people “make history” at Commissioner’s first Regional Youth Forum
- Young people and families ask for new approach to careers education and work experience
- Young People in Charles Sturt re-educating the community about periods and period poverty
- Young people know what will deliver a more youthful Adelaide – if only we’d ask them
- Young people know what will deliver a more youthful city– if only we’d ask them
- Young People not the face of the pandemic but maybe the eyes and ears
- Young People reflect on COVID-19 in a new Street Art Exhibition throughout Adelaide CBD
- Young People standing for office at Local Council Elections this November
- Young South Australians Drive a Win for Port Augusta!
- Young South Australians repeatedly call for climate change action
