Posts by Mary Strachan

There’s an election looming in New Zealand. One way you can tell is by the near-constant media headlines about the supposed youth crime wave, ram raids, and political parties of…

The recent Mama Hooch trial, which resulted in convictions against two men on dozens of charges including rape, sexual violation, indecent assault and drink-spiking related to Christchurch’s Mama Hooch bar, reveals how…

In today’s tight labour market many employers will be competing to hire end-of-year school leavers and other not very experienced young people to fill permanent and part-time roles, as well…

Are you a good driver? Safe? Responsible? A Road Code whiz? Could you spare two hours a week to help a young person practice for their on-road driving licence test?…

Society often treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the reality is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. At the Y our…

We’ve written before in this column of our commitment to supporting Rainbow rangatahi and their whānau in our community. With upcoming PRIDE Month being celebrated throughout March we wish to…

Youth voice is something we at the Y feel passionately about. So for our last column this year, we decided to turn it over to our rangatahi. We asked the…