YAP Charter

YAP is an Online Group for people working on the Midland's Youth Alcohol Projects.

The purpose of YAP is Enhance information sharing and discussion between SHORE and Whariki and each site and across sites.

YAP was opened 27.02.2007 and will run indefinitely.

Membership and Roles

Membership of YAP is open to Health promotion staff directly working on the community action and young people projects at Taranaki HPU and Nga Miro and SHORE/Whariki staff involved with the projects. This initial group may expand if the service specifications of SHORE/Whariki contracts change in the future..

The YAP Home Page shows the parts of YAP that can be seen and contributed to by members and non-members.

You are not a member of YAP. Membership of YAP is by invitation only.

The Participation Coach in YAP is Sarah Greenaway, whose role it is to encourage and assist the other group Members to participate effectively in YAP.

The Owner of YAP is SHORE. YAP is administered by OnlineGroups.Net.

Participation Protocol

By participating in YAP, Members agree to the following.

• Respect the privacy and intellectual property rights of the other YAP members. (YAP is a confidential group; do not forward other people's posts without their consent.)
• Write clear and thoughtful posts as described in the User Guide.

Participants in YAP are encouraged to carry out the following.

• Share information on evaluation issues and strategies
• Share information and resources about effective community action approaches to reducing alcohol-related harm for young people
• Communicate with each other about workforce development opportunities
• Strategise about the implementation of health promotion and evaluation activities
• Explore and discuss effective online collaboration.