Help To Shape A New Youth Health Service

This great opportunity has just been sent through to us from one of our facilitators - get involved!

Do you have an opinion about being a teen and dealing with your own or your friends' health concerns? Whether its depression, drugs & alcohol, sexuality or relationships, that you have questions about, we want to hear from you.

Family Drug Support is establishing a youth specific health website to address the health issues you and your friends may encounter and we need your help to navigate us to make sure we get the message right. This project is a fresh start and we will be requesting your feedback on images, messaging, and language, even what the website will be named!

We’re looking to conduct focus groups in the following areas in the month of January:

§ Campbelltown

§ Cherrybrook

§ Kogarah/St George

§ Parramatta

§ Illawarra region

§ Newcastle region

Once that’s done you can join our youth steering committee. It would probably mean a few meetings at a central location, eg. Youth centre or a PCYC, until April and lots of email communication in between, so you need to have regular access to a computer outside school hours. It will require some commitment but would look great on your resume as you pad it with some great experience and develop life and leadership skills that will set you apart from others!

If you're interested, or have friends who may be, and are between the ages of 11 and 25, contact Deborah Silva Project Manager at deborahsilva@optusnet.com.au or call 0423 157-332 for more info or to sign up for a focus group. I will be sure to have food at every meeting, ‘cause I know it works like a charm.