Youth Services
Wesley Youth Services provides accommodation and support programs for young people from 12 and 18 years of age who are in crisis, homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Youth Services seek to assist young people to re-establish family relationships, connect with support services, and learn to value themselves and maximise their capabilities. Service strategies recognise the need to meet young people on their own ground in surroundings that they choose, like cafes, shopping malls, at home or at school.
Newcastle Youth Services
Newcastle Youth Service (NYS) has been informing, educating and empowering the young people of Newcastle and the Hunter since 1965. Funded by NSW Health and the NSW Department of Community Services, we continue to provide a wide range of free, professional and holistic services for young people, 12 to 25 years, their families and communities in the region.
NYS provides casework, counselling, crisis intervention, information & referrals, advocacy, outreach, community education and early intervention and prevention group work programmes for young people 12 to 25 years, their families and communities in Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and the Lower Hunter.
The expected outcomes for the program:
- Improved functioning for young people provided with a service from the Program.
- Improved networks for young people.
- Enhancing young people’s resilience as indicated by school, community and family connectedness.
- Strengthening individual and family resilience by reducing risks/harm minimisation.
- Protecting against harm.
- Integrated service delivery/networks.
- Effective service pathways for young people.
- Developing community capacity/capability: creating social capital.
Mount Druitt Integrated Youth Service
MDIYS covers the eleven suburbs of Mount Druitt and the adjoining suburb of North St Marys. The service provides counselling, case management, group work such as anger management, and information and referral options to young people “at risk”. The Service also provides assistance to young people through two street outreach programs.
Need more information?
Mt Druitt Integrated Youth Service
44 Copeland Road, Emerton
PO Box 131, Emerton, NSW 2770
Telephone 02 9628 0424
Fax 02 9835 3305
Ashfield Youth Outreach
The Ashfield Youth Outreach Program provides information, advocacy, referral, and counselling to young people who may be at risk of homelessness or in need of advocacy and support. The program was set up with the awareness that many youth were not aware of the services that could support them.
Youth Outreach is an early intervention program connecting youth with existing services. This program is supported and works in partnership with Ashfield and Burwood Council. Youth workers meet with youth on the streets in and around Ashfield and Summer Hill, run drop-in facilities at Ashfield Town Hall and in Burwood Park. They visit three high schools weekly in the local area. Youth Outreach also runs 8 weeks of school holiday program for Ashfield Council each year. Youth Outreach can assist with issues such as domestic violence, unstable accommodation, homelessness, pregnancy, Juvenile Justice, unemployment, depression, addictions, mental health, educational problems, social isolation and much more.
Need more information?
Ashfield Youth Outreach
1 King Street, Ashfield NSW 2131
Telephone: 02 9799 2785
Fax: 02 9798 8364
Nepean Adolescent & Family Service
Youth homelessness is recognised as a significant issue throughout the local government areas of Penrith, Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains. This issue does not occur in isolation but involves a range of significant related issues effecting young people’s lives, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, alcohol and other drug abuse, education difficulties, gang violence and crime, all of which result in families struggling to remain together.
Nepean Adolescent & Family Service provides accessible services including early intervention case management, therapeutic counselling, referral and practical assistance for young people. Nepean Adolescent & Family Service also provides an innovative art therapy program for young people.
Need more information?
Nepean Adolescent & Families Service
Suite 4, 2 Castlereagh Street, Penrith NSW 2751
Telephone 02 4721 8070
Fax 02 4721 8842
Quakers Hill Youth Support Service (QHYSS)
Quakers Hill Youth Support service provides counselling, access to groups, court support, or just someone to talk to privately to help through some of the tough times of the teenage years. Young people aged between 12 and 18 years and their families living in Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Schofields, Parklea, Acacia Gardens, Stanhope Gardens, Dean Park, Kings Park, Kings Langley, Seven Hills, Lalor Park, Marayong or Marsden Park can access this service.
Need more information?
Quakers Hill Youth Support
32 Highfield Road, Quakers Hill, NSW 2763
Telephone: 02 9837 0106
Fax: 02 9837 5213
Riverstone Arts and Vocational Project
The Riverstone Arts and Vocational Project provides outreach programs in the Riverstone, Schofields, Marsden Park and Vineyard areas. Programs facilitated by the Riverstone Arts and Vocational Project include Urban Artist, Unique Links, Creative Journaling and Unmasking Conflict. All the programs use art making as a medium to engage and encourage the development potential of young people aged between 12 and 25.
Need more information?
Riverstone Arts and Vocational Project
32 Highfield Road, Quakers Hill, NSW 2763
Telephone: 02 9837 0106
Fax: 02 9837 5213
EQUIP Youth Mentoring Program
Equipping young people for change
EQUIP is a volunteer based program which connects young people with a positive role model who can offer them guidance and support. Mentors have the opportunity to invest in the life of someone else, while the young person is given support to deal with the changes and developments in their life.
The EQUIP program is run from Wesley Mission’s Mt Druitt Integrated Youth Service in Emerton, but we work with young people across Western Sydney. Mentors are given extensive training before commencing in the program and are not required to live in the area, just be willing to travel.
Interested in becoming or having a mentor?
