A video all about the work of Youth Alive Trust. A registered charity, working in New Brighton since 1989, with the children and young people of the area. Our offices and many of the programmes operate from 'Grace Vineyard: Beach Campus', and currently we work in 7 different areas:
1) Safer Streets Programmes. These are all our after school and evening programmes, ran by many volunteers and staff. The coolest clubs in town, offering crazy, cool activities, challenges, outings and team building exercises:
a. Cheeky Little Monkeys - Every Wednesday 3:00 -- 4:45pm for Years 1 -- 4.
b. WAVE - Every Monday 4:30 -- 6:00pm for Years 5 & 6.
c. Rock Solid - Every Friday 4:30 -- 6:00pm for Year 7 & 8.
d. Sodium Youth Café - Every Friday night 7:00pm -- 9:30pm with occasional live bands & dance parties & trips out.
2) School Programmes. Supporting the students in their classrooms, on lunchtimes, and through extra curricula activities. Bridging the gap between teacher & student and being positive role models. Our key schools are:
a. Aranui High School -- 24/7 Framework (Decile 2)
b. Central New Brighton (Decile 2).
c. North New Brighton School (Decile 4).
3) Holiday Programmes. These fun filled programmes run 4 times a year for two different age categories, for the first week in every school holidays. These are CYF's approved, OSCAR affiliated and we are contracted to the Ministry of Social Development. WINZ approved.
a. School Years 1 -- 4. A maximum of 24 children.
b. School Years 5 -- 8. A maximum of 24 children.
4) Camps. We take young people on overnight camps and weekends away throughout the year, such as Rock Solid Camp, Sodium's BaseCamp, 40 Hour Famine Sleep-over and X-Tend Leadership Camp.
5) Library Support. We have a contract with Christchurch City Council to place youth leaders in New Brighton Library everyday after school, on weekends & school holidays. Their role is not only to look after the computer areas and help library staff with boundaries, which has led to the library to cancel their security contract. But to build positive relationships with regular youth at the Library, in order to provide a listening ear and feed them into other community activities, interacting with hundreds of children and young people throughout the year.
6) Community Events. We support Christchurch City Council events with our volunteers and resources such as the South & North Beach Blasts, The Thomson Park Skate Jam and other youth initiatives. We organise an annual Family Fun Night on 31st October yearly, normally attracting over 500 people.
7) Youth Leader Training and Support. Attracting, training and building-up volunteers to work in their community has been one of Youth Alive Trust's biggest strengths. Seeing young people striving for responsibility, then becoming junior leaders, and then sometimes staff members is an awesome privilege. Volunteers are placed on different Safer Street Programmes (around 35 volunteers) and learn through practical service, their team meetings, training events throughout the year and from other more experienced youthworkers around them. We also host 1st and 2nd year Praxis students, who are studying for a career in youthwork, offering them experience, support and a structure for their practical work.
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An Intro to 24/7 YouthWork at Green Bay High Schoolby TitirangiYouthgroup235 views
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