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Youth Profile Social Capital in GLLEN Region

Youth Profile Social Capital in GLLEN Region. Anne Brinsden Assistant Regional Director, Early Childhood and Youth, Loddon Mallee Region 21 st June 2012. What do we know about how we learn?. Social gradient of learning

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Youth Profile Social Capital in GLLEN Region

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  1. Youth Profile Social Capital in GLLEN Region Anne Brinsden Assistant Regional Director, Early Childhood and Youth, Loddon Mallee Region 21st June 2012

  2. What do we know about how we learn? Social gradient of learning • Effects on literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry to mid school years: • Educational attainment of the mother • Quality of learning in the home • Quality of early childhood education Social Gradient of Health • The best predictor of poor health and even death in middle age may be failure to learn to read by the age of 8 years (Associate Professor Jill Sewell)

  3. Brain Development

  4. LMR Environment

  5. LMR Demographics CGB =19.4 Loddon = 23.3 MRCC = 27.0 Gannawarra = 25.1 Swan Hill = 29.2 Campaspe = 19.8 LMR had a record number of CP notifications in 2011 Bendigo = 6.4% Mt Alexander = 5.3 Central goldfields = 19.6% Bendigo = 18.3%

  6. LMR Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage • Number and percentage of the population living in collector districts with SEIFA score under the 986 Regional Victorian average, 2006 (ABS 2006)

  7. Current Impacts: Loddon Mallee Region Adolescent Profile Swan Hill = 29.2 Mildura = 27.0 Gannawarra = 25.1 Loddon = 23.3 Campaspe = 19.8 CGB = 19.4

  8. Loddon Mallee: Youth Disengaged from Learning

  9. Victoria: Disengaged Young People

  10. LMR Government School Student Absences by Year Level School absences by year correlate with vulnerability cohorts

  11. Central Goldfields Shire • SEIFA = 1 out of 79 i.e. most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

  12. City of Greater Bendigo • SEIFA = 33 out of 79: 1 = most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

  13. Mount Alexander Shire • SEIFA = 30 out of 79: 1 = most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

  14. The Costs of Disengagement For every dollar that government invests in retaining early school leavers, the expected return is as much as 3.2 times more

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