Youth

Youth 4 Youth is a YMCA program that aims to develop leadership and life-skills in youth.  We aim to work with the 80% of youth who do not fall into the already targeted “at-risk” or “high achievers” groups, and deliver a programme that offers growth and learning opportunities in skills that will transition them into their years beyond school, with a particular view to encouraging community-mindedness and community leadership.

Youth 4 Youth is free to all participants and is run on Monday nights from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. It is open to all youth aged 14 to 17. Dinner is provided and we may be able to help out with transport as well.

Subjects and activities included in the Youth 4 Youth curriculum include: 

  • Fun Times – Ice breakers, great free food, and fun team building games.
  • Event management - Learn how to put on great community events
  • Body Image – Stereotypes, media influences, BMI, everyone is different, what help is available, body shape, dressing appropriately, personal hygiene, dancing styles.
  • Money – Earning and saving, budgeting, writing a CV, applying for work, what can you do when you are under 18, volunteering.
  • Fundraising – Theory and practice of, brainstorming on ideas for fundraising activities.
  • Youth Rights – With regard to money, law, employment etc., debate for and against.
  • Parent Pressure – study, sport, friends, separation, how to negotiate rather than fight = win/win.
  • Relationships – Dating, sexual pressure, how do you ask someone out, breaking up, emotions, cheating, other people’s relationships, balancing your friends, families and your new boyfriend/girlfriend.
  • Healthy Eating – Interactive workshop, group cooking, food pyramid, how to eat healthy on a limited budget.
  • Peer Pressure – Alcohol, drugs, parties, sex, school, sexuality.
  • Sexual Health – Guest speaker, fact and fiction.
  • Style and Fashion – Discussion about “what’s hot, what’s not”, peer pressure, style, what suits you.
  • Time Management – Study, sport, friends, socializing, working, school.
  • Media Influences – Radio, TV, movies, gaming, music, internet, celebrities, gossip websites, social networking sites, blogging.
  • Trips – Tenpin bowling, rock climbing, mountain biking at Rotorua, experiential learning gym visit

For more information:

Contact: Mark Graham (Youth 4 Youth Facilitator)
Mobile: 027 279 4010
Office: 07 578 9272
Email youth@ymcatauranga.org.nz