The AHCWA Young Leaders program aims to provide education about youth health issues and support young Aboriginal people (aged 16 to 25 years) to encourage their peers to engage in healthy behaviours.
Once trained, the Young Leaders are supported to be peer educators and pass on what they have learnt to other young people in their communities. The peer educators will be supported to organise and deliver health promotion activities and events in their communities, based on their knowledge of what local young people want and need.
Young Leaders training will take place over one to two days (depending on the size of the group) and will provide Young Leaders with information about how to encourage their peers to engage in healthy behaviours and access relevant services. The focus will be health issues that mostly affect young people – namely:
sexual health, blood-borne viruses and healthy relationships
alcohol and other drugs
mental and emotional wellbeing.
How is the training conducted
The Young Leaders program is delivered over one to two days in participating sites. The sites currently participating in the project include:
For more information or to register your interest, contact reception at AHCWA on (08) 9227 1631 or email email@example.com
About the Young Leaders Logo
The sapling represents the fact that today’s young people will one day grow to become tall trees in their community. The sapling comes from the land and draws strength through its roots – culture, family, history and lore. The leaves of the sapling represent the main issues affecting young people – mental health, alcohol and drugs, relationships and sexual health/blood-borne viruses.