Youth Service providers
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Youth service providers make a difference in the lives of young people in many ways. Youth Week is an opportunity for providers to highlight their work and the skills of the young people they work with.
Check these examples to see what a few services have done in Youth Week
Café for Youth Health photo exhibition - Taupo
Invercargill goes up the wall for Youth Week
party at our place! Urban unity presents Urban Youth Nite
Café for Youth Health photo exhibition - Taupo
To celebrate Youth Week Cafe for Youth Health in Taupo held a photo exhibition at the Great Lake Centre with the theme of ‘what it means to be young in the Taupo District'. Young people were issued with disposable cameras and instructions. They took photos of things that represented and symbolised what being young for them meant. The photos and captains were then displayed throughout the whole of Youth Week
There was an open evening during the exhibition for District Councillors, organisations who work with young people and schools.
The Cafe's photo exhibition during Youth Week aimed to:
· Celebrate young people in Taupo
· Connect young people with the Taupo community
· Acknowledge our young people's talents in Taupo
· Share our young people's needs in Taupo
· Challenge individuals views on young people
· Enable better representation of young people in the community
· Encourage young people to work together
These points enabled young people to have a voice, participate and lead an event in Taupo. Cafe for Youth Health received positive and valuable feedback from the opening evening and from participants and community organisations that were involved, it was a great event.
For more information contact Shelley Robinson, Cafe for Youth Health, Taupo or email shelleyr (at) youthcafetaupo.org.nz
Invercargill goes up the wall for Youth Week
Invercargill young people put their rock-climbing skills to the test as just one of the events organised to celebrate National Youth Week. As part of the week 13 to 18-year-olds could bring an adult to the YMCA indoor rock-climbing venue to have a free go at rock-climbing. YMCA youth manager and Youth Week co-ordinator Saskia Nieuwlands said the evening went really well.
Ten enthusiastic young people came together once a week to plan and implement youth focused workshops, activities and large events. Known as the Raise up and Represent Youth Crew this group focused on finding out the needs of other young people and then provided safe healthy environments in which they could relax and socialise. Jonathan Bode a member of the group said, "People should support youth week and the events that are on because we need to encourage positive growth in the community".
Southland Youth Week coordinator Saskia Nieuwlands says the campaign had some very real outcomes and encouraged people to think about the positive contributions youth make to our societies whether it be though volunteering, adding vibrancy to our city or having great ideas for the future.
Party @ our place! Urban unity presents Urban Youth Nite
Young people came and celebrated Youth Week with Youthtown Auckland City. Activities included breakdancing, 3 on 3 basketball, playstation battles, free gym entry, hip hop poetry workshop, free BBQ, screen printing and stencil art, table tennis, kayaking and squash. All for FREE!!
A team of young people on the West Coast in the designed a campaign to get youth voices heard by local government politicians and decision makers. They developed a free post postcard and distributed it in the Grey District. Postcards were displayed in a Greymouth bank for adults to read.
