FYA is proud to be supporting Staying Engaged, a project being run at the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Education Institute. The project investigates the educational needs of young people with health conditions, who are either in or transitioning to the senior (post-compulsory) years of schooling, that is Year 10 and above.
Previous research has shown that health conditions have an enormous impact on young people’s learning opportunities and their school attendance.
This project will identify the issues, needs and processes that young people with health conditions are faced with on a regular basis when pursuing information and the pathways to their further education and employment.
The project involves several stages:
- A review of the international evidence on young people, their health conditions and their education, read here
- Surveys to parents and young people asking them questionnaires
- Consultations involving young people. Parents and school and hospital-based educators
- Case studies that will enable us to study in detail the arrangements that are keeping young people with health conditions actively engaged and supported with their senior years of schooling
Staying Engaged is aimed at making real improvements to the long-term outcomes of young people with health conditions by generating new knowledge that can inform educational and health policy and programs to support young people and families.
For more information contact Julie.green@rch.org.au
Staying Engaged has been supported by FYA and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.
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