Involve Youth Ministerial Advisory Committee - Social Media Questionnaire
The Involve Committee is the State Government's youth advisory group. They provide advice to the Minister on issues which affect young people. The first topic the Committee will provide advice on is social media.
If you're between 12 to 25 years and living in Victoria, and would like to tell the Victorian Government what you think about social media use among young people, then please complete our questionnaire on social media.
This questionnaire is anonymous so please answer the questions openly and honestly, providing as much information as you feel comfortable providing.
Results from this questionnaire will be collated and a summary of the results will be used to inform the Minister for Youth Affairs.
Please take a few minutes to complete the questionnaire (new window).
Involve
The Involve Youth Ministerial Advisory Committee was announced by the Minister for Youth Affairs on Friday the 20th of January 2012.
The Involve Committee is made up of 18 young people aged 12 to 25 years from across Victoria. The Committee will provide advice to the Minister for Youth Affairs on issues that affect young people across Victoria over their 18 month term. The Committee will begin meeting from February 2012.
The Full list of appointees and thier profiles are availiable in Word Document (.doc 65kb) format, and listed on the Involve committee announcement page.
Want to get Involved?
There are many ways that you can get involved in making a difference in your community - from organising a local gig, to working with local government on youth issues or hotly debating topics in Youth Parliament.
The Victorian Government is supporting and celebrating young people's desire to make a difference in their community, by providing:
- Opportunities for young people to be involved in volunteering and decision-making at the local community and state level
- Supporting communities and agencies across state government to successfully involve young people in their voluntary and decision-making activities.
Here's how...
Here are a few ways that you could participate in Victorian Government programs which support you to:
Actively contribute to your community through volunteering
- Advance school volunteer program
- FReeZA (new window) where young people organise their own music, cultural, artistic and recreational events in their local area.
- Find more volunteering opportunities at http://www.volunteer.vic.gov.au/ (new window)
Be recognised for your contributions to our community as a young person
- National Youth Week Victorian events and young member program
Become involved in State Government decision making, and decision making in local communities
- Youth Parliament
- Online surveys on youthcentral
- National Youth Week (grant rounds will soon be opening for 2012 celebrations)
- Have a say on peak bodies and youth advisory committees
- Youth Action Strategy, which provides rural and regional areas with support to involve young people in their local decision making, through a grants program for local government and training and development opportunities.
- Involve Committee (see below).
The Involve Committee
The Involve Committee is an official Ministerial Advisory Committe whose role is to:
- Ask young people what they think about different topics
- Meet with people from government and the community
- Develop advice to present to the Minister for Youth Affairs
Members of the Involve committee will join for 18 months and will meet once a month. The committee will be made up of 18 young people who are representative of young Victorians aged 12-25 from all walks of life.
The plan is to include eight young people aged 12-17 and eight young people aged 18-25 from across Victoria. This includes two young people from each region across Victoria (for more about regions see the Victorian Electoral Commission's website (new window).
| Metropolitan | Regional |
| Eastern Metropolitan Region | Eastern Region |
The final two positions will be filled by representatives from the youth reference and advisory groups of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (new window) and the Centre for Multicultural Youth (new window) - the peak bodies for young people in Victoria.
For more information on the Involve committee, please call 9935 3009 during business hours.
