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Youth Voice Survey
In May 2014, 24-7 YouthWork (24-7YW) surveyed 1,300 young people throughout New Zealand in 51 schools. The reason we did this was to measure ‘presence based’ youth work to see if the 24-7YW youth workers were having an impact on young people’s lives. To ensure professionalism we approached The Collaborative of Research and Training in Youth Health and Development (The Collaborative) to come on board as independent researchers who insured all feedback from young people was collected ethically and approved by the New Zealand Ethical Committee.
Attempting to measure the impact of ‘presence based’ youth work is a world first and we received overwhelming positive results from young people in the schools that gave feedback.
While 1,300 were surveyed nationwide, The Collaborative have also written a two page individual school report, which remains anonymous but gives insight for schools into the impact the youth workers are directly having.
Green Bay’s results are included below, but the biggest takeaway for me and my team is that the students love the work the Youth Workers are doing and just want more!
Preliminary report on the 24-7 YouthWork Survey for Green Bay High School
In May 2014, an on-line survey was run by 24-7 YouthWork in order to see how young people were finding the services provided. From Green Bay High School, 52 students participated in the on-line survey. The average age of participants in the survey was 14.8 years and 16 of the 52 students were male, while 36 were female.
Ethnic profile:
| New Zealand European | 44 |
| Maori | 0 |
| Pacifica Peoples | 2 |
| Other | 6 |
In answer to the question:
Compared with how you were when you were first started working with your 24-7 YouthWorker how are you now?
The average score was 4.1 on a scale of 1 to 5 where “1=much worse” and “5=much better”.
Answer Number reporting this answer:
| Much Better | 16 |
| A little better | 23 |
| The same | 11 |
| A little worse | 0 |
| Much worse | 0 |
In answer to the question:
How much do you think that your 24-7 YouthWorker has helped you?
The average score was 3.3 on a scale from 1 to 5 where 1 = ‘not at all’ to 5= ‘very much’.
Answer Number reporting this answer:
| Very Much | 5 |
| A lot | 21 |
| Moderately | 12 |
| A little | 13 |
| Not at all | 1 |
Open-ended questions for Green Bay High School:
Note that not all students answered the open-ended questions and some students gave more than one answer to the same question. The answers were coded so that general themes could be identified for each school. The three open-ended questions are summarised below.
In what ways could your 24-7 YouthWorker do things differently to help you (give a few examples if you can)?
There were 18 free text answers to this question from Green Bay High School.
Theme Number mentioning theme:
| Help/talk more | 3 |
| Helpful/helped me | 0 |
| Provide youth/church group | 0 |
| Provide games/movies/activities | 4 |
| More/different meeting times/more workers | 6 |
| Provide food | 0 |
| Never worked with one | 0 |
| Easier to find/clearer about what they do | 2 |
| Listen to us/interact more | 3 |
| TOTAL | 18 |
Since working with a 24-7 YouthWorker, what are some of the things that have changed for you for the better?
There were 71 free text answers to this question from Green Bay High School.
Theme Number mentioning theme:
| Meet people/make friends | 12 |
| Increased confidence/responsibility | 13 |
| More motivated | 11 |
| Attend /doing better at school | 1 |
| Better behaviour/more positive | 10 |
| Support from youth workers | 14 |
| Learned new skills | 8 |
| Not much/nothing | 1 |
| Everything | 0 |
| Food | 0 |
| School Environment Better | 1 |
| TOTAL | 71 |
Since working with a 24-7 YouthWorker, what are some of the things that have changed for you for the worst?
There were 36 free text answers to this question from Green Bay High School.
Theme Number mentioning theme:
| Don’t know/don’t use one | 3 |
| Nothing | 26 |
| Too reliant on Youth worker | 0 |
| Time management/school workload | 1 |
| Stigma of getting help | 1 |
| Some things/everything/a lot | 0 |
| Bad/negative behaviour at home/school | 1 |
| More emotional | 3 |
| Other | 1 |
| TOTAL | 36 |
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24-7 is funded by Green Bay High School, Titirangi Baptist Church, and the local community - only 50% of our funding is guaranteed from the church and the school
Support Us
24-7 is funded by Green Bay High School, Titirangi Baptist Church, and the local community – only 50% of our funding is guaranteed from the church and the school. We are reliant on generous donations from local businesses and people for the other 50% to help us do the work we do with the young people of Green Bay and surrounding areas.
If you would like to donate to the work that we do there are two options:
Bank: BNZ
Account Name: Titirangi Baptist Church
Account Number: 02-0184-0020814-05
2. We can help you
If this is something you would like to do, please contact Jan Page to arrange a way that can work for you.
Titirangi Baptist has a dedicated 24-7 Youth Work account.
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