The Y hotline keeps youth connected
YMCA NSW (the Y) is determined Central Coast youth won’t feel left behind during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the closure of the Gravity Youth Centre at Lake Have and cancellation…
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Kyla to referee at National Youth Touch Football Championships
St Joseph’s Catholic College’s Kyla Tucker has been awarded the prestigious NSW Combined Catholic Colleges (NSWCCC) Blue Award. Tucker received her Blue Award for her commitment to touch football refereeing…
Council seeking youth leaders for Y4Y action team
Central Coast Council is inviting aspiring youth leaders to become members for the Youth For Youth (Y4Y) action team and make a difference to the lives of young people on…
Hearing learns of failure of Job Active Network
T he Job Active Network is failing to help the unemployed, according to Senator Deborah O’Neill. Senator O’Neill was speaking with Coast Community News from a Public Hearing of the…
Youth unemployment 35 % higher than national average
The local youth unemployment rate sits at a “shocking” 16.2 per cent, while the national joblessness rate for youth aged 15 to 24 stands at an average of just above…
Central Coast has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment
The ACTU has identified the Central Coast as one of 20 areas in Australia with an unacceptably high rate of youth unemployment. Those areas are grappling with youth unemployment rates…
Three interesting programs on offer for young people
Regional Youth Support Services is promoting three programs in its 2018 Youth Arts Warehouse line-up. Play Write Intersection; Movement, Music and Mind; and, On the Page Social Media Marketing and…
Youth forum hears from range of services
A Youth Leadership Forum organised by Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Tesch has heard from a range of local services. These included Batyr, Headspace, Evolution Youth Services, RYSS, Brisbane Water…
Central Coast unemployment figures increase dramatically
September labour statistics indicated that unemployment on the Central Coast had risen to 6.4 per cent and youth unemployment to 17.9 per cent, prompting Labor to allege that the Member…
Madeleine nominated for a Youth Frontiers State Award
Year 9 student, Madeleine ConsolinoBouzaid, from Henry Kendall High School, has been nominated for a Youth Frontiers State Award in the Mental Health Section. Youth Frontiers is an electorate based…
Not doing enough for our young people
Over the past thirty or so years I have seen our country go down the tube, because of state and federal governments not doing enough for our young people or…
Youth Connections has a new CEO
Youth Connections has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The new appointee is the former chief of operations and fi nance, Ms Claudia Devlin. Ms Devlin…