Youth Support Coordinators

The project, initiated in 1999 as a response to homelessness in young people, is funded by the Department of Communities and provides counselling, support, referral and group work for students and families.
This is usually done in the school setting, however we have coordinators that work with other not-for-profit organisations who share our vision for a positive future for our youth.

Kokoda Challenge
Relationships Australia’s also has a community development and outdoor education youth worker who is involved in an extended program aimed at identifying young Australians who are at crossroads in their lives and providing support to assist them through current difficulties, enabling them to reach their full potential.
The program requires selected participants to commit fourteen months to a community program designed by the Kokoda Challenge Association, a not-for-profit organisation, assisted by members of the community who volunteer their time as leaders and mentors. The Kokoda Challenge encourages participants to develop self-awareness within the wider community and prepares them for the challenges of adult life.
The culmination of the fourteen month program is the annual fund raising event in which the participants use their skills and training to form teams to compete in a 96 kilometre trek through the Gold Coast hinterland, an event regarded as Australia’s toughest endurance race. This is the last training exercise before the participants travel to Papua New Guinea to walk the historic Kokoda Track.
In the past five years, the Kokoda Challenge Youth Program has made a significant difference in the lives of many young people.