Youth Services

Life and Living Skills Youth Consultation Survey

We'd like to know which life skills are the most important for young people to develop, to become independent and to achieve their personal goals – who better to tell us about this than young people themselves!

Your views and voice will help us to shape the Life and Living Skills Practice Manual and tools, so they are meaningful and practical, and assist workers to get better at supporting young people to develop important life and living skills.

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* 1. Which important life skills have you needed support with, or currently need support to learn and develop? (Select all that apply to you)

Job seeking (e.g., writing a resume, job interviewing, etc.)

Starting a new job (e.g., setting up a superannuation account, getting a tax file number, employee rights and responsibilities etc.)

Cooking and food preparation

Grocery shopping

Cleaning

Budgeting money

How to find accommodation / housing

Managing a tenancy / independent living

How to pay bills

Managing health and wellbeing (e.g., making health and medical appointments, purchasing medication, etc.)

Decision making

Problem solving

Effective communication

Time management

My legal rights and responsibilities

How to share a house with others / housemates

Getting personal identification (e.g., proof of age card, passport, Medicare card, opening bank account, etc.)

Self-advocacy (negotiating for what you need with others)

Learning to drive / getting a driver’s licence

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Which of these approaches do you find most useful when learning a new skill? (Select all that apply)

Watching someone else do it (in person or in videos)

Listening to someone give instructions

Visual instructions that use lots of pictures or symbols

Reading written instructions

Just getting in and having a go and practicing the new skill for myself

Getting feedback from someone on how I am going with the new skill

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Thinking back to a time when you learnt a valuable new skill or set of skills (from anyone) – what did the person teaching you do, that was helpful and made it easy to learn the new skill?

Youth Services

Life and Living Skills Youth Consultation Survey

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* 1. Which important life skills have you needed support with, or currently need support to learn and develop? (Select all that apply to you)

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* 2. Which of these approaches do you find most useful when learning a new skill? (Select all that apply)

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* 3. Thinking back to a time when you learnt a valuable new skill or set of skills (from anyone) – what did the person teaching you do, that was helpful and made it easy to learn the new skill?

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* 4. What have you found to be unhelpful when you are trying to learn a new and important life skill?

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* 5. Do you have any “wild ideas” for how Youth Services can support young people to learn and develop important life skills?

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* 6. Any other comments, feedback or suggestions?