About 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 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.

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). As a specialised youth employment and transition provider, Youth Projects has a proven track record in helping young people move into secure, long-term, and meaningful employment.