Our Programs
Our Programs
YARI
Program Name: Redcliffe Youth At Risk Initiative (YARI Redcliffe)
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Communities
Age Group: 10 to 25 years
Program Design: Jarryd Williams, Naomi Rayward and Amylee Fisher
Staff Running the Program: Amylee
YARI works with young people who are at risk of engaging with the Police or the juvenile and adult justice systems, or who are already engaged with them and need support.
GET SET FOR WORK
Program Name: Get Set for Work
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
Age Group: 15 to 17 years
Program Design: Seona Pradella, Jarryd Williams and Kathryn Eyre
Staff Running the Program: Seona, David and Kit
Get Set for Work is all about helping young people find work or re-engage with education.
Every 10 weeks, Get Set for Work takes in a new tribe of young people and helps them to overcome whatever barriers they have in their life that might be stopping them from continuing with their education post year 10, or might be stopping them from finding or holding down a job.
Get Set for Work is actually fun! It's full of excursions, interesting guest speakers, activities and workshops. It's NOTHING like school.
CHECKPOINT
Program Name: Checkpoint - Peninsula Schools Flexible Learning Program
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Education
Age Group: 14 and 15 year olds
Program Design: Naomi Rayward, Amylee Fisher, Allen Ellis and Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Allen
Checkpoint is a vitally important program.
Basically it's a flexi-school, which means young people who are having trouble staying in a mainstream school can join Checkpoint and finish their year 10!
WORK PLACEMENT PROGRAMS
Program Name: Accelerate (Work Placement Programs)
Funding: Provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation
Age Group: 17 to 24 years
Program Design: Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Roz and Ben
Work Placement Programs are an exciting series of projects that employ young people in traineeships that last up to four months. We run three of these every year, and they're all about skilling up young people in a variety of transferrable work skills and finding them employment.
THE NORTH LAKES PROJECT
Program Name: The North Lakes Project
Funding: Moreton Bay Regional Council and the Stockland Development Group
Major Stakeholders: Moreton Bay Regional Council, the Stockland Development Group, Westfield North Lakes
Age Group: 5 to 24
Program Design: Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Jarryd, Amylee, Kit, Janice, Queenie and Matt
The North Lakes Project does two massively important things! It creates a safe social space for young people that engages young people in public space and it provides outreach into the heart of the North Lakes community to support young people who might be encountering difficulties.
THE UCRE8 PROJECT
Program Name: The UCRE8 Project
Funding: Various
NOTE: This project is a pilot Social Enterprise and will be launched in January 2012
Major Stakeholders: The young people of Redcliffe and North Lakes
Age Group: 15 to 20 years of age
Project Design: Jarryd Williams and Linda Calder
Staff Running the Program: Jarryd, Ben, Janice, Amylee, Amy W, Aaron and Kit
Management Committee Liaisons: Linda Calder and Sylvia Rowe
There's a bit of a story here, and we hope you'll indulge us and let us tell it as briefly as we can. 
In 2006 the Youth Space started designing it's own t-shirts for the staff.
Our manager (Jarryd) is a huge believer in "branding", because it makes a statement and it lets people know at an easy glance what you are and what you're all about.
As part of his branding obsession, he created a term to define the Youth Space and what it hoped to do as an organisation. That term was "Positive Youth Culture" (which is now all over the back of our t-shirts). What does it mean? It means the Youth Space aims to create a positive youth culture for young people through the work that it does. So, hand in hand with our Finance Officer (Amy W), they re-created everything visual to do with the Youth Space - letterhead, logos, the whole deal. Yes. Jarryd and Amy W are crazy. Then they went on to design t-shirts for the staff to brand the organisation in the public eye, so everywhere we went everyone would know where we were from.
At that time, our manager started joking about starting a Youth Space fashion label. The t-shirts were so popular young people kept asking if they could have one (we had to say no), which just further fuelled Jarryd's insistence the Youth Space would one day have its own line of fashion wear.
Now... jump ahead five years and a member of our Management Committee, Linda, came to Jarryd with a very similar idea - but to do it as a social enterprise that would employ young people to design and create all sorts of wonderful things (not just fashion items) with the end goal being funding the organisation exclusive of business and government interests.
And just like that, the UCRE8 Project was born! Turns out Linda is just as crazy as Jarryd and Amy W!
So, right now, the Youth Space is very much in the middle of developing a strong foundation for the UCRE8 Project - which is freakin' EXCITING! Everyone at every level of the organisation is dedicated to it - our Management Committee is right behind it, our manager is crazily drafting business plans and investigating retail outlets, our staff and volunteers are all on board to help out, and we're slowly recruiting young artists to be a part of it.
It's gonna be HUGE!
We aim to launch UCRE8 in January of 2012, so stay tuned! More news will be coming as we dream big, and pull it altogether into a well founded concept that will eventually employ a lot of young people and hopefully fund the Youth Space well into the future!
If you'd like to learn more about the UCRE8 Project, click the link and read on. 
MBYC OUTREACH
Program Name: MBYC Outreach
Funding: Provided by the Federal Government of Australia, through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Organisations Involved: Worklinks Inc. and the Redcliffe Area Youth Space
Age Group: 14 to 18 year olds
Program Design: Stephanie Blunt, Jan Robinson, Lynn Shannon, Nette Griggs, Dee Mitchell and Jarryd Williams
Staff Running the Program: Janice
The Moreton Bay Youth Connections Program (aka MBYC) is a fantastic new opportunity to support young people who have recently disengaged from education or have been disengaged for some time!
DROP IN @ RAYS!
The Youth Space runs Drop In five days a week!
Program Name: Afternoon Drop-In
Funding: Self-funded by the Youth Space
Age Group: 10 to 24 year olds
Project Design: The project was created by Jarryd back in 2005, but it's design has been developed by a lot of people including Jarryd, Ben, Allen, Kit and Amylee
Staff Running the Program: David, Allen, Aaron, Ben, Kit and Amylee
IMPORTANT INFO:
- Drop In hours are 2:30pm to 4:30pmish