Activate youth advisory group
Activate are a youth advisory group for the Ministry of Youth Development which provides a youth perspective and helps raise awareness about government policies that affect young people.
Membership
MYD is currently revising how the Activate group operates and the recruitment process for the group will be starting later this year.
If you would like to be contacted when recruitment begins please email mydinfo@myd.govt.nz
Our current members are:
- Sara-Michele Bishop
- Alexis Luo
- Kurt Sharpe
- Daniel Friar
- Bea Joblin
Submissions
We use online and face-to-face questionnaires to gather information to support oral submissions on bills that impact on young people.
We have presented oral submissions to several select committees and public meetings on the:
- Review of the Sale and Supply of Liquor Law Commission public meeting on 9 August 2009
- Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Bill to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee on 30 July 2009
- Land Transport (Enforcement Powers) Amendment Bill to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee on 30 July 2009
- Young Offenders (Serious Crimes) Bill to the Law and Order Committee on 23 May 2007
- Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee on 22 February 2007
- Opening Hearing on Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health on 4 December 2006
- Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee on 7 September 2006
- Crimes (Abolition of Force) Amendment Bill to the Justice and Electoral Committee on 31 August 2006
- Sale of Liquor (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill to the Law and Order Committee on 5 April 2006.
