National Youth Week 2016

Our National Youth Week event for 2016 was held in Walpole. Catering for the day was provided by Northcliffe Youth Zone (Nytro Kidz). The day was full of fun activities like bubble soccer, skateboarding workshops and competitions, tie dying and the ninja challenge. There was a great turn out, with in excess of 200 people showing up for the day.

We believe that as rural communities there is a keen community awareness of the limitations and restrictions that our youth experience. There is also awareness around the need to assist them to develop resilience and community belonging to minimise risky behaviour particularly involving alcohol and other drugs. We do believe that this awareness is due in part to the many campaigns and educational information provided by federal, state and local government as well as providers and organisations including the input of National Youth Week.