Regional Youth Support Services (RYSS) has a range of activities specifically tailored to young people aged 12 to 25 to support their wellbeing and mental health through programs to build resilience and employability.
The Sideliners program supports young people on a school suspension to Get Back in the Game through a range of encouraging, challenging and engaging topics designed to help better connect with their peers, their education and their relationships.
Building Up Rising Up helps to build employment skills and to understand the job-seeking process and get ready for employment.
Participants in the podcast workshops will learn skills in content creation, editing and interviewing to develop a series of podcasts exploring some of the most important current issues and challenges faced by youth, and use the art of storytelling to offer real strategies and solutions to help listeners experiencing the same challenges.
Other programs include a healthy and respectful relationships program for young men, a fitness group, a practical life skills course, as well as a program to empower young women who have experienced abuse and violence.
There is so much more on offer at RYSS, a not-for-profit organisation providing high quality services, resources and facilities including support, information, assessment, referrals, supervised activities, advocacy services, workshops, case management, excursions and programs to enhance personal development.
These are co-ordinated from a range of locations such as the Gosford Shopfront Service where youth workers are available for advice and referral and the Wyoming Youth Centre and the Youth Arts Warehouse.
Wyoming Youth Centre provides a space for youth group programs that focus on skills development and the Youth Arts Warehouse is a contemporary music, art, and theatre venue providing creative development programs for young people and emerging artists to participate in events, live bands, youth theatre, exhibitions, and a recording studio available for hire.
More information about the wide spectrum of programs available is available at the RYSS website ryss.com.au
Sue Murray