Our Programs
Our Programs
THE HOPE PROJECT
Program Name: The Hope Project
Funding: Moreton Bay Regional Council (until August 27 2010, and then self-funded by the Redcliffe Area Youth Space)
Major Stakeholders: Moreton Bay Regional Council, the Redcliffe Uniting Church and the Young People of Redcliffe
Age Group: 10 to 20
Program Design: Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Jarryd, Ben, Allen, David and Todd
The Hope Project is about keeping young people safe during the often dangerous night time hours of a Friday night and early Saturday morning in Redcliffe.
We've called the program "Hope" because our hope as Youth Workers is to create a safe environment for young men and women using the Humpybong Park area after dark on a Friday night and early Saturday morning.
It's a little known, but very true fact, that Redcliffe is a very dangerous environment for young people when the sun goes down - particularly of a weekend. The staff of the Redcliffe Area Youth Space are not paid to do the Hope Project, because there simply isn't enough money around to do that. Jarryd, Ben, Allen, David and Todd give up their time to be available to young people every Friday night from 8pm to 1am Saturday morning with the blessing of our Management Committee and Moreton Bay Regional Council.
The Hope Project is about giving food, drink, emergency first aid support, a shoulder to cry on and low level adult supervision to the dozens of young people who use the skate park after dark. Sometimes they're drunk, sometimes they're stoned, sometimes they simply don't want to go home for any number of reasons. Some of them are homeless and have no where else to go and some of them are simply trying to find something to do after the shops and everything else closes down. Hope is about protecting the most vulnerable young people in our community.
THE NORTH LAKES PROJECT
Program Name: The North Lakes Project
Funding: Moreton Bay Regional Council and the Stockland Development Group
Major Stakeholders: Moreton Bay Regional Council, the Stockland Development Group, Westfield North Lakes
Age Group: 5 to 24
Program Design: Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Jarryd, Amylee, Kit, Janice, Queenie, Matt, Wade, Todd
The North Lakes Project does two massively important things! It creates a safe social space for young people that engages young people in public space and it provides outreach into the heart of the North Lakes community to support young people who might be encountering difficulties.
YOUTH CONNECTIONS
Program Name: Moreton Bay Youth Connections, Outreach Component
Funding: Provided by the Federal Government of Australia, through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Organisations Involved: Worklinks Inc., the Redcliffe Community Association and the Redcliffe Area Youth Space
Age Group: 14 to 18 year olds
Program Design: Stephanie Blunt, Jan Robinson, Lynn Shannon, Nette Griggs, Dee Mitchell and Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Janice and Aaron
The Moreton Bay Youth Connections Program (aka MBYC) is a fantastic new opportunity to support young people who have recently disengaged from education or have been disengaged for some time!
DROP IN @ RAYS!
The Youth Space runs Drop In five days a week!
Program Name: Afternoon Drop-In
Funding: Self-funded by the Youth Space
Age Group: 10 to 24 year olds
Project Design: The project was created by Jarryd back in 2005, but it's design has been developed by a lot of people including Jarryd, Ben, Allen, Kit and Amylee
Staff Running the Program: David, Allen, Aaron, Ben, Kit and Amylee
IMPORTANT INFO:
- Drop In hours are 2:30pm to 4:30pmish
YACCA
Program Name: Youth And Community Combined Action Redcliffe (YACCA Redcliffe)
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Communities
Age Group: 10 to 18 years
Program Design: Jarryd Williams, Naomi Rayward and Amylee Fisher
Staff Running the Program: Amylee
YACCA works with young people who are at risk of engaging with the Police or the juvenile justice system, or who are already engaged with it and need support.
GET SET FOR WORK
Program Name: Get Set for Work
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
Age Group: 15 to 17 years
Program Design: Seona Pradella, Jarryd Williams and Kathryn Eyre
Staff Running the Program: Seona, David and Kit
Get Set for Work is all about helping young people find work or re-engage with education.
Every 10 weeks, Get Set for Work takes in a new tribe of young people and helps them to overcome whatever barriers they have in their life that might be stopping them from continuing with their education post year 10, or might be stopping them from finding or holding down a job.
Get Set for Work is actually fun! It's full of excursions, interesting guest speakers, activities and workshops. It's NOTHING like school.
CHECKPOINT
Program Name: Checkpoint - Peninsula Schools Flexible Learning Program
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Education
Age Group: 14 and 15 year olds
Program Design: Naomi Rayward, Amylee Fisher, Allen Ellis and Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Allen
Checkpoint is a vitally important program.
Basically it's a flexi-school, which means young people who are having trouble staying in a mainstream school can join Checkpoint and finish their year 10!
WORK PLACEMENT PROGRAMS
Program Name: Accelerate (Work Placement Programs)
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
Age Group: 17 to 24 years
Program Design: Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Roz and Ben
Work Placement Programs are an exciting series of projects that employ young people in traineeships that last up to four months. We run three of these every year, and they're all about skilling up young people in a variety of transferrable work skills and finding them employment.
FUSION
Program Name: FUSION Youth Engagement Program
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Communities through the Office for Youth
Age Group: 12 to 25years
Program Design: Jarryd Williams, Naomi Rayward and Karen Porter
Staff Running the Program: Ben
The FUSION Youth Engagement Program completed Saturday the 14th of August with a massive dinner that had representatives from all three levels of government - Federal Member for Petrie Yvette D'Ath, State Member for Redcliffe Lillian van Litsenburg and Councillors Rae Frawley and James Houghton from Moreton Bay Regional Council in attendance. In addition to the political representation, the dinner was also attended by staff from a number of youth organisations in the region, and young people from all around the Moreton Bay Council area.
The dinner was about young people feeding back opinions and recommendations directly to all levels of government in an informal and inclusive environment.
The Redcliffe Area Youth Space is very pleased to say the event was a fantastic success, and brought to a close two years of intense research. That research will be available below, in September.
The winner of the iPod will be posted online on this page, via our facebook and MySpaces on Monday the 16th of August.
HUGE thanks to everyone who helped make this project possible!