Whyalla Youth Council
Regional South Australia
The Whyalla Youth Council aims to actively promote, support and advocate for the youth of Whyalla  to enhance their quality of life. The Whyalla Youth Council is a successful youth participation strategy that has been operating as part of the Whyalla City Council for the past two and a half years.  The Youth Council is a youth led initiative who’s main role is to provide recommendations to, and actively participate in the decision making process of Whyalla City Council. This involves formally advocating a rural youth voice through annual participation in South Australia Governments Youth Parliament program and assisting in the implementation of Council youth and community initiative.

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Information and Cultural Exchange 
Western Sydney, New South Wales
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) is an innovative and dynamic organisation working at the cutting edge of community, culture and information technology. A non-profit organisation, ICE works with communities to develop arts, cultural, information and technology projects across the Western Sydney region. 

The ‘Different Faces, Shared Spaces’ project will be a 3 year youth led campaign to challenge negative media and community perceptions of culturally diverse Western Sydney young people and to create spaces for self expression and unity amongst these young people. Young people will be trained through hands on workshops to develop media and public speaking skills, and explore issues of identity, racism, violence and conflict, and community engagement. The young people will create and distribute music CDs, DVDs/videos, photography and graphics to communicate expressions about their lives, struggles and experiences. The project will create an online hub/website to enable young people to share their digital work and connect to each other.

CONTACT Inc.
Brisbane, Queensland
CONTACT Inc is an innovative and relevant community cultural development organisation.  The company is driven by a philosophy and practice based on the social justice principles of access and equity. CONTACT Inc deliver innovative cross cultural and cross-art form products with young people, particularly from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Polynesian and refugee and migrant communities

The “Each one Teach one” project involves skilling up a Crew of young people to create and deliver different workshop programs for young people and service providers which directly address young people's ongoing local issues such as racism, gangs, police harassment and safety at train stations. Through this initiative, young people will become the peace-builders in their communities and get to learn how to get along, build peace in the community, how to achieve their dreams and solve problems through creative means.

Each one Teach one has 6 key objectives; including YOUTH DRIVEN PROCESS to ensure that the project is youth driven at all levels, THE CREW to create a strong team of young arts/cultural/youth workers inspired, willing and capable of achieving the vision of the project, LOCAL ISSUES to create safe spaces for young people to address local issues, YOUNG PEOPLE'S SKILLS to identify and develop a network of young people in the community and support their growth and dreams, SHOWCASING to showcase the work developed by young people to the broader community and SUSTAINABILITY to have the work valued, supported and sustained within the broader community

Glendyne Education and Training Centre
Hervey Bay, Queensland
Glendyne Education and Training Centre provides a unique holistic approach to education and reintegration into society for disadvantaged youth in the area, approximately 25% of whom are Indigenous.  The Glendyne Program is the only one of it’s kind in the Wide Bay region that caters for youth who have been, or are likely to be, involved in the criminal justice and/or mental health systems.

Glendyne aims to create a project built on youth mentorship for other young people with depression.  The project objectives are to provide support for young people while they are on waiting lists for mental health services.  Young people will work with mental health professionals to provide after-school and weekend activities focussed on sport, recreational activities, retreats and camps.  This model of youth to youth mentoring will give young mentors leadership skills and build confidence while engaging with other youth in their area. 

Creative People's Collective
Lismore, New South Wales

Creative People’s Collective Inc. (CPC) is a youth run, youth initiated organisation from the northern rivers district of NSW.  This Lismore based organisation plans to enter into a creative partnership with Community Connections North Coast to foster and develop a regional youth arts network in the NSW northern rivers region.   This grassroots organisation seeks to address issues of youth isolation, boredom and lack of opportunities in their district through a creative program which draws on their skills in the arts and use of Hip Hop culture.