Youth Projects

Youth Projects, founded in 1984, is an independent, registered charity that provides health, outreach, employment, education, and training services to individuals experiencing disadvantage including unemployment, homelessness, mental health challenges, and alcohol and other drug dependency. Youth Projects operates under six domains of service: homelessness, primary health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, employment and training, and social enterprise. With a workforce of around 160 people across the north, west, east, and inner suburbs of Melbourne (Hosier Lane CBD), Youth Projects promotes inclusion, builds resilience, and creates opportunities through providing person-centred, holistic, and wrap-around services. Youth Projects programs and initiatives address the complex needs prevalent among the disadvantaged, with wrap-around services that respond to the needs of our most vulnerable including employment, education, training, healthcare, mobile outreach, mental health, harm reduction, and alcohol and other drug support. To enable long-term sustainability and focus resources on services that lead to the greatest possible outcomes for young people and people experiencing homelessness, our work is continuously guided by a comprehensive outcomes and impact framework focused on five core goals – improved health, meaningful employment, greater sense of belonging, safety and security, decreased risk of homelessness, and longer lives. Our impact is evidence-based, and our success is demonstrated through many years of delivering specialised youth employment, training, education and transition support programs and initiatives including federal, state, and local government contracts which include Transition to Work (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations) and Disability Employment Services (Department of Social Services). Note - all enquiries to be submitted via email - [email protected]