Youth Services

Wagga Wagga City Council supported initiatives for young people through events, program's and grants to community organisations.

Contact:
Youth & Community Officer
Phone (02) 6926 9100

Youth Strategy

 Wagga Wagga Youth Support Strategy 2009 - 2013 (482KB)

Journey to Respect/ Tolland Association

The Tolland area has an issue with young people at risk. Many of the young people in the Tolland Area experience disadvantage and have a lack of facilities to keep them engaged. The Journey to respect program is a mentorship project that focuses on motivating young people to produce positive outcomes in their lives.

Plan It Youth

Plan It Youth is a Youth Mentoring project with young people at seven local high schools participating in a structured program involving mentoring on a one to one basis to focus on career investigation over a twelve week period to equip them with improved skills and abilities to seek employment opportunities.

School retention rates for students continuing on from year ten through to year twelve to remain much higher amongst participants involved in the one to one mentoring by helping students to recognise their strengths, assist with goal setting, explore possible education and employment opportunities and suggest possible courses of action and act as a sounding board for ideas and problems.

Re:generate Youth Festival

Wagga Wagga's annual youth festival is 8 days of mayhem, hype, intense fun and awesome people. Your challenge is to rock, create, aspire, chill, imagine, play and most of all to SHINE.

• 12-18 year olds in and around Wagga
• Annual event in April school holidays
•  Movies, bands, music, competitions, beauty, computer games, theatre, craft, pool competition, art, drama and much more!
• Majority of events are free
• Program information www.regenerate.org.au - Check it out!

Re:generate Youth Festival is a celebration of the value our youth bring to our community, and encourages youth participation in educational and fun activities hosted by professional tutors in a range of cultural and social activities.

Eastern Riverina Arts Program (ERAP)

ERAP Provide funding and support for artistic and cultural development, particularly targeting youth, their strategies include:

• a comprehensive communications program including quarterly magazine, website and e-Bulletin
• benchmark projects in the fields of audience development, collaborative marketing and cultural mapping
• grants programs, providing seed funding for one-off community projects as well as major commitments to two to three year projects

The Oztry Foundation

The Oztry Foundation administers the Why Try Program targeting young people who have disengaged from education training and employment. This program is run in schools. The program's focus is to convert frustration, anger into constructive behaviour by using a cognitive-behavioural approach.

Wagga Wagga Compact

Wagga Wagga Compact works with all of the local schools to provide work placement opportunities for school children. Wagga Wagga Compact is government funded and has successful partnerships with many local businesses under the Adopt a School initiative. Compact also hosts a careers expo day on an annual basis.

Wagga Wagga PCYC

Wagga Wagga PCYC hosts discos, dance parties and band nights on a regular basis. They host a range of recreational activities for young people and are also involved in after school care activities.