Youth Outreach Project

We will be working with young people and their families, community members, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, local service providers, Elders, schools, local government, headspace National and the Western NSW Primary Health Network to design a fit for purpose youth outreach service.Your feedback will shape the service delivered.

The Youth Outreach Project will be available in Coonamble, Gulargambone, Warren, Collarenebri, Condobolin, Brewarrina, Bourke, Lightning Ridge, Walgett and Nyngan. It’s expected to be in operation by 2024.

The phases

This project has been broken down into four phases:

1. Engagement (current stage) – We’re currently out in the community meeting with service providers, Elders, health organisations, schools, young people and their families to introduce the project and find out who wants to be involved in the co-design process.
2. Trainee recruitment and education – Within this phase we aim to recruit 30 First Nations peoples from the target communities, as part of a 12-month traineeship program. Learners will be hosted in health services across the communities and employed by Marathon Health.
   
3. Co-design process – The co-design process will be driven by an external agency who will lead workshops focused on an outreach service that young people will engage with and trust. The workshops will ultimately lead to the project service model, program logic and evaluation framework.
4. Implementation and service delivery – The final piece of the puzzle will be the launch of the service within the ten communities. Trainees from phase two will have completed their training and are ready and able to deliver the project in their local community.

This service supported by funding through the Western NSW PHN as part of the Australian Government’s PHN program.