YEP Events Archive - YEP - Youth Educating Peers

Welcome to the 2019 West Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector Conference, which is hosted annually by the Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA).

The Conference Program will focus on the theme – Lead the Way, Challenge the Possibilities, Imagine the Future. 

The Conference will promote the journey of the sector so far, the successes along the way and plans for the future of Aboriginal holistic health care delivery provided by (AHCWA’s) 23 Aboriginal community controlled health services (ACCHS) located throughout Western Australia.

Our final workshop for 2018 at Anchors Youth Centre 🙁 For this last session, we’ve got YEP Crew Fatema & Darci running an SHBBV workshop with the young people at the Friday night drop-in. So if you’re out and about, come and say hey! We’d love to see ya 🙂

This is our last session for this year out at Sowilo Community High School! For the last time in 2018, YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Vithan will be running The Technosexual World workshop with the Year 10 Health Class 😀

headspace Pilbara Youth Reference Group, Pride WA and headspace Pilbara are excited to announce #pilbarapride2018 – a whole of community event designed to celebrate the wonderful diversity in our region.

It’s on Friday 23^rd Nov, 2.30pm-8.30pm, entry to the Karratha Leisureplex pools are FREE, courtesy of Pride WA and headspace Pilbara. Food, drinks, games and fun…it’s all FREE 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Susan are back out at Mission Australia DAYS to run another SHBBV workshop with the young people at the program. Woop! 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Vithan are back out at Sowilo Community High School to run an STI/BBVs & Contraception workshop with their Year 10 Health Class 🙂

YACWA and YPN is doing pride!!

Are you a young person? Want to march in Pride? Come with us!!!

Have you ever felt like the sex ed you got in school just wasn’t quite relevant to you? Or is the sex ed you’re getting right now in school doesn’t seem to apply to you?

NEVER FEAR! Matt Bacon, Health Promotion Officer for Gay and Bisexual Men’s Projects at the WAAC is here! He’s running this super cool workshop at the Freedom Centre for gay and bisexual young people to explore, learn and share sex ed information and resources that are current, accessible and relevant to the gay and bisexual youth community here in Perth!

Yay! We’re heading back to Anchor Point, but this time up in Heathridge at Anchors Youth Centre 🙂 YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina and Vithan will be heading there this Monday to run Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop.

We’re back out at Sowilo Community High School! We’ve loved every time we’ve done a session there, and we’re super excited to be running three sessions with the Year 10 Health Class 🙂 YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Vithan will be starting there this Monday and running a Respectul Relationships & Consent workshop.

This Friday, we’re back out at Mission Australia DAYS in East Perth, and we’re pretty excited about it! YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Claire will be running an SHBBV education workshop with the young peeps 🙂

We’ve made it to s1e4!!! The Youth Pride Network (YPN) and the YEP Project presents Queer & A Live FB Interview Series with guest sexperts!

This time around, we’ve got the dynamic duo/double trouble guest sexperts (Yep! There’s two of them!):

Lena Van Hale, Manager of Magenta & Kai Schweizer, YEP Crew, The YEP Project 🙂

During this live FB interview, Lena & Kai will be talking about all things Trans and Gender Diverse

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Claire will be back out at Comet Care School Clarkson for their second and final workshop with the students 🙂 Thanks for having us!

This is the second and last youth workshop that YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Claire will run with the awesome peeps over at Comet Care School Caversham. By the end of this workshop, the students will have covered the following topics: Gender & Sexuality, The Technosexual World and Sex & the Law. Yay!

This is our second youth sector workshop with the amazing team over at Mission Australia Youthbeat! YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan, Kai and Vithan will be running this interactive, activity-based workshop with the Youthbeat team on how to make their program more youth SHBBV-friendly! 😀

We’re back again out at Anchors Youth Centre this Friday night with YEP Crew Peer Educators Vithan and Julia running an interactive workshop with the young people that turn up for drop-in! So make sure you head down to the youth centre to catch us in action 🙂

This is our first time out at Comet Care School Clarkson, WOOP! We have YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire and Kai running the first of two sessions with the students on the following topics: Gender & Sexuality, The Technosexual World, and Sex and the Law.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Claire will be running a youth workshop with the awesome students at out Comet Care School in Caversham. This is the first of two workshops we will be doing with the crew, and we’re very excited 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Vithan will be out with the City of Joondalup’s Mobile Youth Service out at Juniper Park to run a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop. If you’re around, make sure to come by and say hi! 🙂

YACWA’s Fairground conference takes place every two years as an opportunity for the youth sector to network, share ideas and common experiences whilst focusing on statewide issues of importance to young people and the sector.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina and Habiba are back out with the young peeps at the City of Cockburn’s Youth Diversity Alliance (YDA) to run a How to Talk to Youth Workers about Sex and Sexual Health workshop 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educator Kai will be training up the new generation of Dr YES volunteers on our newly launched Gender Burger! Yyyyaaassss 😀

We’re heading to Kent Street Senior High School out at East Vic Park for the first time ever! We’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Habiba running a 1-hour workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent and STI/BBVs. We hope the Year 12’s are looking forward to seeing us!

Head down to YMCA SJ for this Thursday’s Youth Carnival! There,  you’ll catch YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Shaina hanging out and having chats with young people on all things SHBBV stuff!

The YEP Project is super excited to present at the upcoming 2018 Ally Conference in Perth! YEP Crew Peer Educator Kai will be launching our Gender Burger Animation that we’ve been working on for a while as part of our Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101 workshop series. Hope to see you there!

Third time’s the charm! The Youth Pride Network- YPN and the The YEP Project presents ‘Queer & A Live FB Interview Series’ with guest sexperts!

Super excited to announce that our next guest sexpert is Scott Donatti, Sexologist & Counsellor at headspace Freo!!! Say wwwwhhhaaaaaaaa…!!!

During this live FB interview, Scott will be talking about all things ASEXUALITY, AROMANTIC, and AGENDER stuff 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan, Darci & Kai will be at SCA’s Ignite Basketball down in Armadale this Saturday night to run a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop. If you’re out and about, make sure you come down and say hey! 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Shaina will be running a workshop with members of the City of Cockburn’s Youth Diversity Alliance (YDA). Woop!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Emily will be facilitating our Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101: Gender Identity Toolkit with North Metro TAFE Certificate of Mental Health students at Leederville campus 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina & Fatema will be facilitating our Check Yo Self: Attitudes & Values workshop with the Katanning youth sector.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Emily will be running our Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101: Gender Identity Toolkit with the members of the Mission Australia Youthbeat team! 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Susan will be back out at Dungeon Youth Centre to run a workshop with the young peeps at drop-in. If you’re around, swing by!

We’re back out at SCA’s Ignite Basketball program next Saturday! This time around we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Darci, Susan & Aksh running the How to Talk to Youth Workers about Sex/Sexual Health workshop. So if you’re out and about on a Saturday night in Armadale, head down to the Arena and hang out with us! 🙂

We’re bbbbaaacckkk!!! The Youth Pride Network- YPN and the The YEP Project presents ‘Queer & A Live FB Interview Series’ with guest sexperts!This time around, we’re psyched to announce that our next guest sexpert is Lexie Ashwell-Jones, who is the Opening Closets Training Facilitator at Living Proud WA. YYYYAAAASSSS!!!

During this live FB interview, Lexie will be covering the topic of lesbian and bisexual women or women who have sex with women (WSW), so get amongst it and submit your questions in by Wednesday 5 September to go in the draw to WIN a Double Pass to Luna Cinemas!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire and Habiba will be heading out for the first time ever to hang with the girls out at PCYC Safe Sistas program in Hamilton Hill. This time around, we will be chilling with the girls first up with a cooking activity, and then we will be running a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop towards the end. Hope to see you there if you’re part of the program!

We will be at the Mercycare Reconnect Forum this coming Monday to present the Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101: Gender Identity Toolkit workshop. YEP Crew Peer Educator Kai will be explaining our new Gender Identity Burger Model to the participants, and we’re psyched!

The Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program (SHBBVP) is undertaking consultation to inform the development of the WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus (BBV) Strategies 2019 – 2023 and invites you to provide feedback.

Health professionals, community agencies, government departments and community members in WA are invited to participate in on-line and/or face-to-face consultations to inform the actions and priorities for the period of the strategies.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Habiba are heading out to Dungeon Youth Centre to run their next workshop with the amazing young peeps that come to drop in on Tuesday arvo. Make sure you come down for some sick hangs 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina and Habiba had so much fun running their workshop with the City of Cockburn’s Youth Diversity Alliance (YDA), that they’re coming back for more! This time around they’ll be facilitating our workshop on Gender & Sexuality 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian & Kai are out at this year’s Department of Health’s Regional Sexual Health Workshop held at Grace Vaughan House for their rural/remote staff that work in the sexual health space here in WA. Julian & Kai will deliver a 1-hour version of Creating Safe Spaces: the YEP Youth Sector Guidelines v2.0. So if you’re from the regions, and are coming down for this, we look forward to seeing you there!

This is the first workshop in a two-part series aimed at upskilling youth workers and people who work directly with young people on Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health issues.

It is an interactive workshop that provides a strong foundation on a range of different issues including:

• Gender
• Sexuality
• Correct pronouns
• Appropriate language
• Health outcomes for trans and gender diverse young people, and
• How to manage biases

Most importantly, this workshop provides a safe space to have a genuine discussion and ask questions on this pertinent topic.

The YEP Project will be facilitating its first ever youth workshop in Albany, and we are super excited! YEP Crew Peer Educators will be at at headspace Albany to run a fun and interactive workshop on the following sexual health and blood borne virus (SHBBV) topics:

• Respectful Relationships & Consent
• Gender & Sexuality
• The Technosexual World
• Sex and the Law

So, if you are a young person aged 12-25, and would like to know more about these very important and relevant topics, then make sure you come along!

As youth workers, we know it takes a lot of time and energy to build genuine trust and rapport with young people. We know that if a new young person came to our service or program, it’s going to be a little while yet before they REALLY talk to us about what’s going on in their world.

Come along to our FREE Youth Sector Workshop on Creating Safe Spaces, based on The YEP Youth Sector Guidelines on how to make your service/program/organisation more youth- and SHBBV-friendly for young people in our communities.

We’re back at DAYS this week, with YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Amelia running a workshop with the awesome young peeps. This will be the last workshop in this series with DAYS, and we hope to come back again soon. We’ve really loved coming to DAYS and look forward to hopefully do it again soon 🙂

Check Yo Self: Attidues & Values Workshop is designed to encourage participants to assess how their values and attitudes influence their interactions with others, in particular, with young people. Check Yo Self focuses on youth sexual health – working to build understanding, normalization and an assessment of existing judgments.

We’re excited to announce the launch of our ‘Queer & A’ Live FB Interview Series with our first guest sexpert Matt Bacon, who is the Health Promotion Officer, Gay & Bisexual Men’s Projects at the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) here in Perth! Woop!

During this live FB interview, Matt will be answering any and all of your gay & bisexual men’s and/or men who have sex with men (MSM) related questions…so make sure you get your questions in by Wednesday 15 August to go in the draw to WIN a Double Pass to Luna Cinemas!!!

We’re super excited to be part of this year’s North Lake Senior Campus Health Expo! YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina and Fatema will be on deck to hang out, answer your questions and have chats about all things sexual health. So if you go to NLSC, make sure you look out for us on the day! 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Habiba are out again over at Dungeon Youth Centre running a workshop on all things Respectful Relationships & Consent. Make sure you drop in and hang out with us this Tuesday arvo! 🙂

We’re stoked to have been invited by the City of Joondalup’s Mobile Youth Service to run workshops with their awesome young people. For the first workshop, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian and Claire running a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop. Come say hi!

This is our first official YEP Crew Youth Workshop with the young members of the newly-launched City of Cockburn’s Youth Diversity Alliance (YDA). For this session, YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina and Habiba will be running our Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop 🙂

This is an upcoming workshop for primary school staff and professionals who want to learn more about how to create safer and more inclusive environments for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse (SSAIGD) students, staff and families.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Amelia are back with the young peeps over at DAYS this Tuesday for more chats and hangs 🙂 We love DAYS!

Back again out at the awesome Anchors Youth Centre in Heathridge for our next YEP Crew Youth Workshop 🙂 We’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Darci who will be running a workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent. We hope to see you there!

We’re back out at Dungeon Youth Centre in Ballajura, but this time we’re hanging with the awesome young peeps during their drop-in centre sessions! First up, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Julia just doing some informal outreach (chats and hangs), so if you’re out and about, come and say hi! 🙂

Youth Pride Network is super excited to announce it’s first event; an LGBTIQA+ all-ages gig night featuring local LGBTIQA+ musicians.

This is an event to hang out, meet other young LGBTIQA+ people, and listen to awesome LGBTIQA+ musicians.

This is the first workshop in a two-part series aimed at upskilling youth workers and people who work directly with young people on Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health issues.

It is an interactive workshop that provides a strong foundation on a range of different issues including:

• Gender
• Sexuality
• Correct pronouns
• Appropriate language
• Health outcomes for trans and gender diverse young people, and
• How to manage biases

Check Yo Self: Attidues & Values Workshop is designed to encourage participants to assess how their values and attitudes influence their interactions with others, in particular, with young people. Check Yo Self focuses on youth sexual health – working to build understanding, normalization and an assessment of existing judgments.

The YEP Project will be facilitating its first ever youth workshop in Bunbury, and we are super excited! YEP Crew Peer Educators will be at the new Bunbury headspace centre to run a fun and interactive workshop on the following sexual health and blood borne virus (SHBBV) topics:

• Respectful Relationships & Consent
• Gender & Sexuality
• The Technosexual World

So, if you are a young person aged 12-25, and would like to know more about these very important and relevant topics, then make sure you come along!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire & Habiba are facilitating an exciting workshop at Mission Australia DAYS Program. We’re super excited to see the young peeps at DAYS again, and have some awesome chats!

Hiya friends! YEP Crew Peer Educators Shaina & Habiba will be out and about this Friday night at City of Cockburn’s Youth Centre hanging out with their new Youth Diversity Alliance (YDA). So come on down to the centre and chill with us!

Love Bites is a respectful relationships education program that focuses on the development of respectful relationships and violence prevention for 15-17 year olds.

Love Bites Junior is a respectful relationships education program that focuses on the development of respectful relationships for 11-14 year olds.

The Agency Network for Youth (ANY) coordinated by YACWA has invited the YEP Project to facilitate its Check Yo Self: Attitudes & Values Workshop at their next meeting!

This brand new workshop aims to ensure that staff working with young people are able to give unbiased information that is de-stigmatised, and therefore, empower young people to make well-informed sexual health decisions for themselves.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Amelia & Kai are back out at Mission Australia DAYS to run our final workshop for June. We’ve loved coming out to hang with the young peeps and have really great discussions on all things youth SHBBV stuff! 😀

This is our last workshop out at Anchors Youth Centre this time around, and we’ve got awesome YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Susan running a fun and interactive workshop with the young peeps! So head on down this Friday night and say g’day 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Amelia & Kai are out at Mission Australia DAYS Program today! This will be our sixth session in this round of workshops with the young peeps staying at DAYS 🙂

We’re back this week at Mission Australia DAYS Program, and we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia & Kai running the show! We’re gonna give The Technosexual World a go this time around 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia and Emily are out this week at Altone Youth Services to run our final workshop for this round! We’ve had the best time out with the Altone young people and hope that we can work with them again soon 🙂

We’re doing the Technosexual World today! YEP Crew Peer Educators Amelia and Kai, along with new YEP vollie, Jesse, are out at Mission Australia DAYS program to run a workshop with the young people around sex and the online spaces. Woohoo 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia, Vithan and Emily are out again at Altone Youth Services to run a workshop on Contraception. So make sure you head down to the youth centre and join in for some SHBBV fun!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai, Susan & Emily are back out at Anchors Youth Centre to run a workshop with the awesome young peeps! Head on down this Friday night if you’re out and about!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Amelia are out for another round of SHBBV talk with the young people staying over at Mission Australia DAYS in East Perth 🙂

Our good friends over at Altone Youth Services, along with youth workers and staff from Rise Network, will take part in YEP’s Creating Safe Spaces workshop 🙂 YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian, Habiba and Emily, along with new YEP volunteer, Jesse, will be facilitating this event! We’re super excited 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Amelia are back out at Mission Australia DAYS Program to run a session with the young people. It’s another SHBBV ‘mixed bag’ this week!

The third biennial SiREN Symposium will bring together West Australian practitioners, clinicians, researchers and policy makers with an interest in sexual health and blood borne virus (SHBBV) issues. The Symposium will provide opportunities to:

• Connect with others in the SHBBV sector;
• Learn about the latest projects and research; and
• Build skills in research, evaluation and knowledge translation.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Julia will be out over at Altone Youth Services to run our first workshop with the young people on the topic of Gender & Sexuality. So if you’re around the area, make sure you head over and say hello! 🙂

Breaking Down the Alphabet: a Closer Look at GBM (Gay & Bisexual Men) provides current sexual health information from a WA context regarding young gay and bisexual men’s (GBM) sexual health. This FREE unique training opportunity will encompass two workshop presentations from the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) and M Clinic. The newly-launched Youth Pride Network (YPN) will also host an informal networking event shortly after the formal presentations, so make sure you come along and meet the new crew!

We are BACK! Due to the success of our first lot of workshops at Mission Australia’s DAYS (Drug and Alcohol Youth Service) Program that we just finished recently, we’ve been asked to come back and run weekly workshops with the young peeps until the end of August, YAY! So for the first workshop this time around, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Amelia & Kai heading up the session 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian and Habiba are back out at Altone Youth Services to run another youth sector workshop with the team! This time around we will be facilitating the Engaging Young People in Youth SHBBV Issues, and is all about the games and activities that youth workers and staff can run with their young people 🙂

Global Health Short Course (GHSC) is back for 2018 and this year it’s concise, it’s compelling, and it will blow you away! Interhealth’s premier conference is perfect for the passionate but time-challenged individual hoping to learn more about global health and become practically involved in improving the wellbeing of fellow humans around the world.

This is our first official workshop out at Altone Youth Services and we’re pretty pumped! We’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia, Matt & Emily facilitating a fun Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop so make sure if you’re around the area, come on down to the youth centre and hang out with us this Wednesday arvo! 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian and Vithan will be manning our YEP Stall out at Cockburn Youth Services’ Illuminate Youth Festival for National Youth Week 2018! It’s going to be a beautiful day 😀

Check Yo Self: Attidues & Values Workshop is designed to encourage participants to assess how their values and attitudes influence their interactions with others, in particular, with young people. Check Yo Self focuses on youth sexual health – working to build understanding, normalization and an assessment of existing judgments.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia and Susan are back out at Altone Youth Services to man our stall for their National Youth Week 2018 event! Come along, there will be cool stuff to do, prizes and FOOD!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Darci, along with YEP volunteer Anna, will be out at Stratton Youth Centre’s National Youth Week Event 2018. YEP has a stall where we can run activities, such as our brand new one Relationship Ocean. Make sure you come by!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julian and Amelia will be out at Stratton Youth Centre to talk all things Gender & Sexuality! So head over to the youth centre this Thursday and hang out with us!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Emily will be at TAFE Leederville this Wednesday to man our YEP Stall at their networking event. So please come and say hi, and have a chat with us about all things youth SHBBV stuff 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire and Amelia will be facilitating a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop with Certificate 1 Gaining Access to Education (GATE) students, out at Currambine Community Centre. This is our first time out with GATE, so wish us luck!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Julian will be ‘Subject Matter Experts’ during the ‘Open Space Discussions’ at the City of Canning’s Illumin8 Youth Summit: Speak. Design. Shine. Susan will be heading up the Technosexual World talks, while Julian will facilitate discussions around general youth SHBBV issues.

ILLUMIN8 YOUTH SUMMIT: SPEAK. DESIGN. SHINE!!!

Are you a young person aged 11-18? Do you live, work, study, or play within the City of Canning?

Do you want the opportunity to SPEAK up about issues that affect young people in your community, help DESIGN what the future will look like for Canning young people, and SHINE as a youth leader in the area?

Then the Illumin8 Youth Summit is just for you! Oh, and it’s FREE!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia and Fatema are back out at Anchors Youth Centre this Friday night to run The Technosexual World workshop. So if you want to know more about sex and the online spaces and what you can do to make sure you’re safe, then come along! It will be fun as!

We’re back out at Stratton Youth Centre this year! For our first YEP Crew Youth Workshop, we’ve got Susan and Kai running a Respectful Relationships & Consent session with the crew. So if you’re out and about in the area, make sure you come down to the youth centre!

Young people with disabilities may require specialised teaching strategies when learning about puberty, sexuality and relationships.

This workshop provides practical information for parents, teachers and workers to help support young people to understand the changes experienced at puberty and to manage this life stage with confidence.

We’re back at Altone Youth Services in Beechboro! This time around we’ve got our new YEP Crew Peer Educator Emily joining Julia & Fatema to mix and mingle with the young people out at the youth centre. Come on down 🙂

It’s our last workshop this time around out at Mission Australia DAYS Program! We’ve had an amazing time with the young people that we’ve worked with, and thanks very much to the awesome staff that have been super supportive 🙂 For this workshop, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Jordina & Kai running another SHBBV combo workshop for the crew.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire, Susan & Kai are back at SCA Ignite Basketball program this Saturday night to run a Gender & Sexuality workshop with the young people! Hope to see you there 😀

This is our first time out at Altone Youth Services! YAY! We’re just gonna try get to know the young people that hang out at the youth centre this Wednesday, so make sure you come and have a chat to YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia and Fatema 🙂

You and your students are invited to a panel debate on the topic Cultural Diversity is a Threat to the Australian Way of Life. The topical debate, hosted by the Office of Multicultural Interests, will bring together opinions and ideas from both sides of the fence and encourage open and honest dialogue among young people.

BRING YOUR VOICE, to shape the way we help young people at-risk of suicide.

Are you a young person aged 12-25 with a passion for mental health?

YACWA, in partnership with MercyCare and Youth Mental Health, North Metropolitan Health Service of WA, will host a half-day forum open to young people, youth workers, school staff, social service providers, government and non-government health service providers and all those interested in supporting young people.

Catalyst for Change film screening!

Join us to celebrate Harmony Week 2018 at this exciting youth film screening!

Do you want to know what some of WA’s politicians and leaders think about Harmony Week? Or what they have to say about some of the key issues affecting refugee and migrant young people?

Well, eight local young people set out to find out. This dynamic group, have spent the last month interviewing leaders in our community and have documented their findings in a short film!

On the opening day of Harmony Week, we invite you to join us for the first screening of Catalyst for Change – Harmony Week 2018. We will also launch the full report from 2017 Catalyst Youth Summit, and screen the full length documentary Cast from the Storm.

Inclusive Education WA is hosting three workshops across Perth for school staff who want to learn more about gender diversity in schools and how to best support trans and gender diverse students in the school context. This training is targeted at teachers, school leadership, school nurses, school psychologists, school chaplains, youth workers, social workers or any staff who work with or in schools.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan and Kai are back out at Mission Australia DAYS Program running an SHBBV workshop with their young people. Again, we’re doing a little bit of everything to make sure that the peeps get an overview of topics such as Respectful Relationships & Consent, Contraception, STIBBVs and Gender & Sexuality.

Two community leaders in HIV education and advocacy will be appearing at Loton Park Tennis Club this March for a conversation on U=U (Undetectable equals Untransmissible).

The forum is an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about U=U, the fact that people living with HIV on treatment with an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit HIV.

We’re very excited to be invited back to Anchors Youth Centre this year, following a very successful workshop series in 2017! First up, we’ve got Fatema & Kai doing informal outreach this Friday night with the young people at the centre. So make sure you come by and say hi!

This year, we’re back out at Murdoch Uni with a YEP Stall in partnership with our mates, the Youth Disability Advocacy Network (YDAN). We’ve got activities, lollies and lots of time for chats, so if you’re at Murdoch, make sure you come and say g’day!

It’s our third time out at DAYS, and we’re really loving it! This time around, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Kai doing a lil bit of Respectful Relationships, Consent, STIs and Gender & Sexuality…just to keep things interesting 🙂

YEP Crew are back out at Armadale Arena for two workshop sessions with the young peeps! First up, we’ve got YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Susan running a Respectful Relationships & Consent workshop. So if you’re out and about on a Saturday night in Armadale, come on down 😀

We’re back at UWA O’Day 2018! Last year, our combo stall with the UWA Health Promotion Unit was such a success, that this year, we thought we’d have our own one! Make sure you come by and say hi to Vithan & Julia, as they’ll be ready to hit you up for a quick activity or try answer any SHBBV questions you may have. Hope to see you there!

For our first forum of the year, we are really excited to partner with the Health Consumers Council and bring a focus to the important issue of the use of interpreters and its impact on young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. The specific focus of the session will on the use of interpreters in medical settings.

The aim of the session is to bring, health service providers, practitioners, youth and settlement sector workers and young people together to build knowledge and awareness and to develop strategies and recommendations on this topic.

February 14-21 is WA Sexual Health Week, and we’re celebrating by offering free, confidential STI tests! Drop into 70 Roe Street next Thursday 15 February during the times listed in the flyer, and stay up to date with wait times on the day on Facebook #sexualhealthweek18

Join the YEP Project to celebrate this year’s National Condom Day on the 14th of February! There will be lots of food and drinks, music, networking opportunity AS WELL AS:

• a short and interactive information session on the importance of CONSENT, which is the theme for this year’s 2018 WA Sexual Health Week, and
• take part in THE GREAT CONDOM RACE, where we pit young people and youth workers against each other on a race that takes them all through the correct steps of how to put on a condom. Who will be this year’s undisputed Condom Race Champions of Perth? Will it be young people? Or will it be the youth workers? Come along to find out!

We had a great first session with the young peeps at DAYS, and we’ve decided to create a mish mash of different youth SHBBV topics to cater for the fact that the young people staying at DAYS might be different each time 🙂

YEP Crew Habiba, Julia & Julian, along with YEP Project Coordinator Nia, will be facilitating two of their workshops with the staff at the Children & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Bentley unit. We’re very much looking forward to working with the Bentley team again, after running a few youth workshops last year with their young people. The two YEP Youth Sector Workshops that will be facilitated on the day are:

• Creating Safe Spaces: the YEP Youth Sector Guidelines v2.0
• Engaging Young People in Youth SHBBV Issues

It’s going to be a long day full of learnings!

Social stigmas and attitudes around disabilities has still not developed to recognise the need for decent sex education. Leaving people with disabilities often unable to explore healthy sexual relationships due to a lack of knowledge, support, and/or privacy.

As such, this unique workshop explores how relevant and necessary it is to be inclusive of people with disabilities – particularly young people – when it comes to sex education, and accept as the norm that people with disabilities are sexual beings too.

YEP Crew are super excited to have their very first session of 2018 with the young people over at Mission Australia DAYS (Drug and Alcohol Youth Service) Program! This week, YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai and Julia will be hanging out with the young people and delivering the first interactive workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent 🙂

The Freedom Centre run weekend retreats every year, and their next one is coming up!

The retreat is 48 hours of games, workshops, awesome food, amazing company and more! It provides a chance for LGBTIQ+ young people to connect with each other in a safe and supportive environment.

In partnership with the Australia Forum on Sexuality, Education and Health (AFSEH) and the WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (SiREN), we are pleased to invite you to our second WA workshop event. Join us for a late afternoon tea followed by a fun and stimulating discussion with speakers from across WA and Australia!

We need your input.

A new youth strategy is being developed by the WA Government that will make a positive difference to young Western Australians.

The strategy aims to improve the delivery of programs and services to support people aged 10 – 25 years.

Consultation with young people, youth service providers and government agencies is essential to ensure the strategy meets the needs of all young Western Australians.

If you are aged 10 – 25 years, this is an opportunity to have your say in what is most important to you.

The YEP Project will be marching this year with the ‘Youth Workers and Young People Float’ at the 2017 Pride Parade. YEP Crew Peer Educators will be alongside Foyer Oxford residents all dressed up with their Pride posters and banners celebrating our amazing LGBTIQ+ community!!! We hope to see you there!!! 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Jordina are back out at Anchors Youth Centre this Friday night to run a workshop on STIs, BBVs & Contraception. So if you’re out and about, come on over and hang out with us!

Build your skills to work with young people around relationships and sexual health!

Nuts and Bolts develops the core knowledge, attitudes and skills required to provide information and support for young people around respectful relationships and sexual health issues.

For the third time in a week, YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Julia will be presenting the very recently launched workshop Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101: Gender Identity Toolkit to students and staff at Busselton TAFE!!! This is the first time this workshop will be presented regionally, and we can’t wait to hear their feedback 🙂

It’s our last time out at SCA Ignite Basketball this Saturday night, so you all should come down and say bye for now!!! This week, YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia, Habiba & Susan will be taking you through some of the topics that we’ve covered before; things like Respectful Relationship, Technosexual World and Gender & Sexuality. We hope to see you there 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Julia presented the recently launched Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health 101: Gender Identity Toolkit to staff from Anglicare Foyer Oxford. We’re super excited, as this is the first time we will be running this workshop specifically for staff of other organisations! So if you’re interested in us facilitating this workshop with you and the staff from your workplace, please email anania@yacwa.org.au 

This is the first workshop in a two part series aimed at upskilling youth workers and people who work directly with young people on Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health issues.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan, Shaina & Kai will be back at SCA Ignite Basketball to run a workshop on the Technosexual World. Don’t know what that is? Well, it’s all about sexting, pornography and staying safe online. So, come on down to find out more!

YEP Crew will be back at Anchors Youth Centre to run our first workshop this time around on Respectful Relationships & Consent. YeP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Vithan will be there, so if you’re out and about, make sure you head down to the youth centre to find out a few things that you may not have known before! 🙂

T-PrEP is a FREE opportunity to get educated about PrEP and HIV, specifically in reference to the Trans and Gender Diverse community.

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is the use of antiretroviral medication to prevent acquiring HIV. PrEP involves taking a pill every day (called Truvada) so that a person who is HIV-negative can stay HIV-negative. The use of PrEP as a form of safe sex has expanded in the last few years in Australia.

YEP Crew is on the road again! This time we will be heading to Bridgetown High School to do workshops over two days with Year 9 & 10 students on Respectful Relationships & Consent, Technosexual World, STIs & BBVs and Contraception.

We’ve not been to Bridgetown before, so we’re really excited and can’t wait to meet some of the young peeps down there!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Amelia will be out at SCA Ignite Basketball this Saturday night to run a workshop on The Technosexual World. So if you wanna learn more about sex and the online spaces and how to stay safe, come and join us!!! We’d love to see you there 🙂

We’re back after school holidays down at Armadale Arena with the Ignite Basketball peeps!!! YEP Crew Peer Educators Amelia & Susan will be running an interactive workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent. So if you’re around on Saturday night, come on down and join in on the fun 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Susan will be presenting the preliminary findings of the Forum that we had with headspace Youth Reference Groups (YRGs) exploring the Link Between Sexual Health & Mental Health. We will also be discussing the current issues facing LGBTIQ+ young people in relation to the postal survey on marriage equality. We hope to see you there!!! 😀

YEP Crew Peer Educator Kai presented at the Armadale Youth Network Meeting regarding LGBTIQ+ issues for young people in the community. Kai introduced YEP’s Burger Model on Gender & Sexuality with staff and youth workers, which was really well received. Watch this space for upcoming workshops on Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health!!!

We’re back at Anchors Youth Centre YAY!!! After the success of the first round of workshops that we did with the awesome young peeps at Anchors Youth Centre, they’ve asked as to come back and we’re totally excited 🙂

This Friday night will be the start of our visits, with YEP Crew Peer Educators Kai & Fatema just hanging out with the young people and having chats. So if you’re out and about, please come on down!

The Youth Affairs Council of WA (YACWA) and the Youth Educating Peers (YEP) Project cordially invites you to the 2017 YACWA/YEP Every Body, Every Mind Summit: a WA Youth Sexual Health Sector Event.

This FREE Summit will bring together young people, youth services and the sexual health sector to explore, share and increase understanding and capacity to support WA young people around their youth sexual health needs in an ever-increasing and complex environment.

***For YEP Crew members & headspace WA Youth Reference Groups (YRG) members only***

The YEP Project will be hosting and facilitating an upcoming forum for YEP Crew members and headspace WA YRG members to explore and better understand the link between sexual health and mental health. We acknowledge that these two health topics are sensitive issues, and are often experience concurrently by young people, and as such, we would like to come together to discuss, brainstorm and determine the value of developing workshops for young people and the youth sector around this topic.

YEP Crew Peer Educators are back out at Save the Children’s Ignite Basketball program, with Susan and Kai hanging out with the young peeps and playing some b-ball! Head on down to Armadale Arena, and say hey! 🙂

Safe Schools Coalition WA is excited to invite you to the first event of its kind:

It’s our last time out at Clarkson Youth Centre!!! This time around YEP Crew Peer Educators Matt, Fatema & Vithan will be running an interactive workshop on Gender & Sexuality. So if you want to learn more about that, hang out, have chats and also to say bye for now, please come along – we’d love to see you there 🙂

The YEP Project is back out at Cyril Jackson Senior Campus to present to teachers and staff about the Positive Power of Peers. YEP Crew Peer Educator Habiba and YEP Project Coordinator Anania will be highlighting the successes, learnings and opportunities of the project so far, and encouraging school educators to ensure that SHBBV education remains an important part of the school curriculum.

If you’re attending this event, we look forward to seeing you there!!!

We’re back in Armadale! Starting this Saturday, YEP Crew will be part of Save the Children’s Ignite Basketball program on Saturday nights down at the Armadale Arena! YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Aksh will be hanging out with the peeps this Saturday, and getting to know the fam – so if you’re around, come say hi!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Matt, Fatema & Amelia will be back at Clarkson Youth Centre this Thursday night to run sessions on the topic of Contraception! So if you’re out and about, and would like to know more – we’d love to see ya there!

The City of Armadale is teaming up with the Consumer and Community Health Research Network to host a youth voice conversation about the WA Youth Health Policy, right here at the City of Armadale buildings.

This is a great opportunity for any of the students or young people you work with aged 13 – 24 years old to have a say about and input into their future health.

$25 payment for all participants, plus pizza provided on the night.

YEP Crew will be travelling to Katanning and will be part of the first-ever Katanning Senior High School Health Expo! We’re super excited to meet and get to know some of the young peeps in Katanning, and will be running quick activities throughout the day, hand out freebies and having chats with the students. See you then!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Vithan & Darci will be at Ocean Reef Senior High School’s Health Expo to provide information to students around SHBBV issues. We’ll be there all day so can’t wait to see you there 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Matt will be heading back to Clarkson Youth Centre this Thursday night to hang out with the young peeps and talk about all things STIs & BBVs. Come on down if you’re out and about! We hope to see you there! 🙂

Come along to our first FREE Katanning Youth Sector Workshop on Creating Safe Spaces, based on The YEP Youth Sector Guidelines on how to make your service/program/organisation more youth- and SHBBV-friendly for young people in our communities.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Jordina & Julia will be manning an awesome YEP Project stall at Curtin University’s Rad Sex & Consent Week event on Wednesday! Come say hi, take part in an activity and learn more about important youth SHBBV issues 🙂 Hope to see you there!

Join us for this exciting full-day event where we showcase recent developments in school-based sexuality and relationships education (SRE).

Hear from a broad range of engaging speakers, meet with WA agencies who can support you with your delivery of SRE and witness a number of practical activities you can take straight back to the classroom.

This symposium is suitable for anyone who may deliver SRE in schools. This includes teachers, school health nurses, support staff, administrators and external agencies. Pre-service teachers are also welcome.

This time around, YEP Crew Peer Educators Matt, Fatema & Vithan, will be running a workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent with the young people that drop in to Clarkson Youth Centre. So if you’re out and about and want to learn about this super important topic, we’d love to see ya!!! 😀

International Overdose Awareness Day is Thursday 31^st August. WASUA will again be co-hosting the event at the Overdose Remembrance Tree at Hyde Park (near Lake Street entrance).  The event will start at 12:00 and will include a BBQ lunch for all who attend – please see the attached poster for more information or contact WASUA on 9325 8387.

The rate of opiate overdoses has been increasing. The day is centered around remembering and honoring those we have lost as well as raising awareness of ways everyone can prevent, recognize and respond to opiate overdoses. It is a very supportive day and is a good opportunity for workers and clients to come together to share experiences.

We’re out at North Lake Senior Campus for the very first time and we’re super excited! YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Julia will be at the Women’s Health Day, talking about what YEP does and providing information regarding SHBBV issues for young women 🙂

If you’re keen to volunteer in the sexual health sector, head over to the WA AIDS Council’s (WAAC) Volunteer Information Sessions! The details are:

Tuesday 29 August 6.30pm-8pm

Wednesday 30 August 3.30pm-5pm

WAAC, 664 Murray Street, West Perth

Contact: Kristina Mitsikas, Volunteer Program Coordinator kmitsikas@waaids.com or 08 9482 0000

YEP Crew Peer Educators Golda, Aksh & Amelia will be out and about at the UWA Red Party’s Red Aware Week event, and is run by Red Party which is a student-run charity that raises funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS, and raises awareness of sexual violence.

Come have a chat, participate in some quick activities, and find out more about respectful relationships and consent, sex positivity and STIs and BBVs!!!

It’s our second informal outreach session, hanging out with the young people at Clarkson Youth Centre! Join YEP Crew Peer Educators Aksh, Matt and Vithan in some activities, chats and lots of fun. Hope to see you there 😀

YEP Crew Julia & Jordina will be running their last workshop over at Dungeon Youth Centre on the topics of Sex and the Law and the Technosexual World. So if you’re around, pop in and say hi and bye for now, and learn some new things around the legal side of sexual health!

It’s our last session out at Anchor Point Ballajura 🙁 We’ve had an awesome time with the young peeps, and the staff have been super supportive and amazing to work with it! So, for our last workshop, YEP Crew Julia and Jordina will talking about all things Sex and the Law and stuff around the The Technosexual World!

We’re back out at Foyer Oxford for the Ladder Foundation, and this time around YEP Crew Julia, Habiba & Vithan will be running a workshop on Gender & Sexuality and Inclusion – where we talk about the better practice ways of being inclusive with people from all backgrounds. So if you’re around, we’d love to have ya 😀

This is our last session out at the City of Gosnells Chillzone Drop in at The Castle, so make sure you head on down and hang out with YEP Crew Peer Educators Matt & Habiba! Ask questions, have chats and lots of fun with them and the rest of the awesome young peeps. Go on, see you there!

We’re super excited to start heading out to Clarkson Youth Centre! This will be YEP Crew’s first time out there, with the first session being just a hang out with the young people with YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Habiba. So if you’re out and about, we hope to see you there!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Habiba are back out at Mike Barnett Sporting Complex to run a workshop with the young women on STIs, BBVs & Contraception. Who run the world?!?!

What is Consent? Do you know? Well, EVERYONE should! So to learn all about consent, head down to Dungeon Youth Centre where YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Jordi will be running a workshop on it. Hope to see you there!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Jordi are back at Anchor Point Ballajura to run a workshop on Consent with their young people. We all need to know about the importance of asking for and freely giving consent!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Shaina will be running a workshop with the young people out at Save the Children’s One Step Closer program on Respectful Relationships & Consent. Come along, learn new things, and have a chat about these important topics!!! 😀

YEP Crew Golda, Jordina & Kai will be out at the City of Gosnells ChillZone Drop In Centre to hang with the young peeps and run some on-the-spot activities around Respectful Relationships & Consent. Come along, we’d love to see you there!!!

Youth Reference Group have been hard at work organising a Quiz Night at Curtin University’s Tav to be held on Thursday August 10^th.. Entry fee is $5 to be paid at the door. It will be a fun night out with lots of prizes to be won. Food and drinks will be available to purchase.

Register your team of 8 or we can arrange a team for you. Please register to the following email address ayrgheadspace@gmail.com.

Please note that this is a 18+ event. Family and friends are welcome too.

We’re back for our second and final workshop with the young people out at Stratton Youth Centre. YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire, Julia & Amelia will be running an STI & BBV session, so if you would like to know more about this topic, come along!!! Hope to see you there 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Julia will be out at YMCA Serpentine-Jarrahdale Future Links Program hanging out with the young people, and participating in their programmed activities!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Jordina & Fatema will be out with the young people today running a workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent at the YMCA Serpentine -Jarrahdale Future Links Program. Who run the world???

R U Legal? are a group of interactive online resources developed by the Legal Practice Development Team at Legal Aid WA about:

• Cyberbullying
• Sexting
• Age of Consent
• Identity Theft

This workshop will focus broadly on consequences for actions in the legal context, share real life stories, and demonstrate to you how the online resources can be used in providing information and advice to the young people that you work with.

We’re back out at Dungeon Youth Centre, with YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia & Jordina running a workshop with the young people on STIs & BBVs. So if you’re around, come and join!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Julia & Jordina are back with the young peeps over at Anchor Point Ballajura. This time around we will be running a workshop on STIs & BBVs 🙂

YEP Crew Peer Educators Matt & Kai will be out at YMCA Serpentine-Jarrahdale Future Links program running a workshop with the young people on Respectful Relationships & Consent. It’s gonna be fun times!!!

After our initial informal outreach session, YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema, Jordina & Amelia are back to run a workshop with the young people on Respectful Relationships & Consent. So if you’re out and about, come and hang with us, we’d love to have ya!!!

We’re super excited to be heading out to the YMCA Serpentine-Jarrahdale Future Links program next week! First up, we have informal outreach with the young people over at Mike Barnett Sporting Complex in Rockingham, with YEP Crew Peer Educators Aksh & Kai hanging out and getting to know the young people! 😀

Week 3 with the YEP Crew over at Dungeon Youth Centre! We’ve had a great time getting to know the young peeps that come and hang out during the Drop In hours. This time around YEP Crew will be running their first Youth Workshop on Respectful Relationships & Consent. So if you’re around, pop in and say hhheelllooo!!!

YEP Crew will be heading back to Anchor Point Ballajura to run our first Youth Workshop session! We will be talking about ‘Respectful Relationships & Consent‘, with activities and awesome videos 🙂 We’re really looking forward to it!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Fatema are going to be at SCA’s One Step Closer program out behind Champion Centre in Armadale next Thursday night. This is our second informal outreach session, getting to know the young peeps, participating in the education session and having fun playing footy with the Night Fields crew from WA Football Commission. So if you’re looking for something to do, head on down and hang out with us!!! 😀

It’s round 2 of our informal outreach sessions out at Dungeon Youth Centre! YEP Crew Peer Educators Susan & Julia will be hanging out with the young people at the drop in centre, so if you’re in the area, come say hi!!!

YEP Crew Susan & Julia will be out over at Anchor Point Ballajura just getting to know the young people and hanging out this Tuesday, as part of our second informal outreach session 😀

Come along to our first Mandurah FREE Youth Sector Workshop on Creating Safe Spaces, based on The YEP Youth Sector Guidelines on how to make your service/program/organisation more youth- and SHBBV-friendly for young people in our communities.

We’re so excited to start our sessions out at Stratton Youth Centre, which is run by our friends over at Rise Network. YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Shaina will be out with the young peeps just hanging out and having fun on Monday arvo, so if you’re around, pop in and say g’day!!!

This is our last session at Cockburn Youth Centre 🙁 We’ve had an amazing time with the awesome young people and the great staff at the Centre, and we hope that we can come back again soon! For our last workshop, YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba, Fatema and Kai will be running our last workshop, so we hope to see you there!!!

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Claire will be heading out to Wanneroo Secondary College to run a workshop on STIs & Testing with Year 12 Health Class students. This is our first time out at the College and we’re very excited for the opportunity 😀

Woohoo!!! We’re heading out to Dungeon Youth Centre starting the 18 July!!! YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire & Matt will be starting off with just some informal outreach with the young peeps who will be dropping by, so if you’re around in Ballajura, come say g’day!!! 😀

We’re super excited to start getting to know the awesome young people that are part of Youth Future’s Anchor Point Program in Ballajura!!! Our first session will just be informal outreach, with YEP Crew Peer Educators Claire & Matt hanging out with the young crew 🙂

This is our first time out at Champion Centre on a Friday night for Save the Children’s One Step Closer program. This is a youth diversionary program that combines education workshops with fun activities for young people within the Armadale region on Friday nights run by the amazing team of staff and volunteers from our friends over at SCA.

YEP Crew Peer Educators Habiba & Shaina will be on hand hanging out with the young people and participating in the awesome fun activities so if you’re out and about, come say hi and get to know the YEP Crew! Hope to see you there!!! 😀

The YEP Project is excited to announce that they will be presenting at the 2017 Youth Health Conference in Sydney hosted by the Australian Association for Adolescent Health (AAAH). YEP Senior Project Officer Anania and YEP Crew Peer Educator Susan will be presenting ‘The Positive Power of Peers – The YEP Project’ on the firs day of the conference.

This is the first time that this iteration of the YEP Project will be presenting on a national scale, so we’re very humbled and extremely excited to have been chosen!!! We hope to see you there!!!

BE PART OF THE MOST INSPIRING 3-DAYS OF YOUR LIFE!!!

SEXUAL HEALTH IS ONE OF THE HOT TOPICS OF THIS YEAR’S SUMMIT!!!

The Catalyst Youth Summit is an initiative organised by young people for young people. It is open to all young people from refugee or migrant backgrounds aged 18 to 25 living in Western Australia. The aim of the summit is to bring multicultural young people together to discuss issues important to them, create solutions and to directly express their opinions to politicians and other decision makers. The three-day summit program will include leadership and advocacy trainings, opportunities to hear from inspirational speakers and an opportunity to network with politicians, decision makers and form friendships with other likeminded young people.

YEP Crew Shaina & Habiba are back at Cockburn Youth Centre this Thursday to run activities and games around the topic of Contraception. Learn the different types, how the work, and what they’re all about PLUS have fun and ask those questions that have been brewing in your head for a while. Hope to see you there!!! 😀

Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. It can lead to serious liver damage and liver cancer. Many people who have the virus don’t know that they are infected. In many countries, the most common way hepatitis B is passed on is from mother to baby at birth.

This workshop is designed for settlement workers, counsellors, youth workers, case managers, social workers, practice nurses, interpreters and volunteers working with refugees, international students and other migrant populations.

Sowilo Community High School is AWESOME!!!!! YEP Crew members Claire, Fatema & Matt headed over there last Friday to run two sessions with Year 9s & 10s, as well as Year 11 & 12 students on Consent & Contraception. The crew had a fab time with the young peeps, and we’re looking forward to heading back there soon! 😀

YEP Crew Shaina & Julian are back at Cockburn Youth Centre to hang with the peeps and run an interactive workshop on STI & BBVs!!! So if you wanna know more about STIs and BBVs – like what they are, how you can get them, how you can get rid of them and that sort of thing, head down to Cockburn Youth Centre this Thursday night and have a chat to Shaina and Julian. They’re super friendly and super helpful 😀

It’s Round 3 at YBW Subi with YEP Crew Susan & Fatema coming around to train with the young women and run an interactive workshop with the peeps afterwards! So come on down to Subi PCYC this Thursday night with ya gloves on!!! 😀

To celebrate Reconciliation Week come and join Queers for Reconciliation and get together with Black Queer mob and their non-Aboriginal brothers and sisters.

It’s round 3 for us over at Young Boxing Woman Project in Fremantle!!! YEP Crew Habiba & Julia will be joining in on the training and then running a workshop on STIs & BBVs. See you there!!! 😀

It’s our third session with the Cockburn Youth Centre, and tonight we will be running activities around the topics of Respectful Relationships & Consent. So if you wanna know more, ask questions, have a chat, play some games or just hang out with YEP Crew Shaina & Julian – they’d love to have you there!!! 😀

This time around, Shaina & Aksh will be hanging out with the young people down at Cockburn Youth Centre…but with Fremantle Dockers players! Hope to see you there 🙂

Come along to the Freedom Centre’s Trans Art Project Exhibition Opening!!!!

A collection of artworks depicting the gender journey of trans and gender diverse young people.

It’s Round 2 for YEP at Young Boxing Woman Project in Subiaco! YEP Crew Susan & Fatema will be having a box and running a session on Respectful Relationships & Consent with the young ladies, so come along and hang out with us!

Young people want to talk about relationships and sexual health, but it’s not always easy! This course will help you open that potential can of worms and handle those tricky moments that might follow.

Held over 5 Saturdays starting 6th May, headspace Fremantle have Cartooning Workshops for Year 8 & 9 Students and Song Writing Workshops for Year 10 & 11 students. The workshops are normally held at Paper Bird and usually involve a fee, however thanks to the City of Fremantle, this series of workshops are completely FREE!!!

How exciting!!! YEP Crew will be out and about hanging with the young peeps over at Cockburn Youth Centre for the very first time!!! We’ve been so excited about this…and so come on down and have a chat to YEP Crew members Shaina & Julian and take part in some of the activities we’ve got going!!! 😀

We’re heading back out to Roleystone Skate Park with the Hope Community Services Street Van this week! YEP Crew members Fatema & Susan will be on hand to have a chat with young people about any questions they may have, play some games, and have some yummy BBQ, so head down there on Thursday arvo and check it out!

We’re back for the second round at the Young Boxing Woman Project in Fremantle! This time, YEP Crew Habiba & Jordi will be talking about Respectful Relationships & Consent. So come on down, have a box and a chat with some awesome ladies 🙂

YEP Crew Jordi & Fatema are back at Bentley Adolescent Unit talking Contraception! The ladies have some new activities planned for this session, and so we’re really excited on how the young peeps engage with them 😀

It’s our last session for this half of 2017 at Anchors Youth Centre! Thanks so much to the City of Joondalup for their support 🙂 This time around YEP Crew members, Habiba & Shaina will be talking STIs and BBVs. So if you wanna know more about this topic, and ask ANY questions you may have, come along, it’d be great to see you there! 🙂

For the first time ever, YEP Crew will be out and about with the Hope Community Services Street Van at Roleystone Park! YEP Crew Peer Educators Fatema & Julian will be hanging out with the youth workers and outreach team, putting on a BBQ and some music for the awesome young peeps at the skate park. So head down there and meet the crew! We’re super excited 🙂

YEP Crew members Jordi & Darci will be at this Thursday’s Stratton Youth Centre, run by RISE Network, to do an interactive workshop with their young people on gender, sexuality and LGBTIQ+ issues. It’s our first time at Stratton, so we’d love to see you there!

YEP will be at the Teacher Development School Secondary IEC Conference at Cyril Jackson Senior Campus with YEP Senior Project Officer, Nia, presenting on YEP & Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network of WA work, as well as YEP Crew Peer Educator Golda giving the closing keynote speech!!!

We’re already started at the Freo sessions, and now the YEP Crew are going to be with the ladies at the Young Boxing Woman Project in Subiaco. YEP Crew Susan & Fatema will be hanging out getting to know the peeps and, of course, doing some boxing training! If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, and you’re a young lady aged 12-24, come on down to Subiaco PCYC and get your gloves on!!!

YMCA Belmont will be having a youth festival for National Youth Week 2017 at Faulkner Park in Belmont, and have invited YEP Crew to come and hang! So, YEP Crew members Julian & Shaina will be on deck having chats, running activities and hanging out so make sure you come on down!!! 😀

YACWA and the YEP Crew will be out and about at the Propel Youth Arts’ KickstART Market Day 2017!!! It will be a fun filled family event with stalls, food, music and so much more to celebrate National Youth Week 2017 and the start of the KickstART Festival. So come on down and get amongst it!!!

WASUA will again be holding the youth testing event teSTIng, teSTIng, ABC during youth week. The event runs onThursday 6^th and Friday 7^th of April between 10 am and 3 pm at WASUA Perth – 22/7 Aberdeen Street (near McIver Train Station).

The YEP Crew are starting their sessions with the amazing ladies at the Young Boxing Woman Project in Fremantle. YEP Crew Fatema & Habiba will be hanging out getting to know the peeps and, of course, doing some boxing training! If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, and you’re a young lady aged 12-24, come on down to Fremantle PCYC for super cool fun! 😀

We’re up to our third session with the awesome young people at Bentley Adolescent Unit (CAMHS), and we’re pretty excited!  YEP Crew Jordi & Golda will be hanging out with the young people and talking STIs, BBVs and contraception 🙂

YEP Crew members Fatema & Aksh will be manning our YEP stall at this weekend’s zero2hero Superhero YOUth Festival 2017!!! Come say hi, play an activity, have a conversation and just hang out with us at Perth Cultural Centre. See you there, okay? 😀

Come along to our FREE Youth Sector Workshop on Creating Safe Spaces, based on The YEP Youth Sector Guidelines on how to make your service/program/organisation more youth- and SHBBV-friendly for young people in our communities.

Our final FREE workshop will be our Sexual Health: The Ins & Outs which we have developed for the young people in Northam. Facilitated by YEP Crew members Susan & Jordi, with a little help from YEP Senior Project Officer Nia & YEP Volunteers Julia and Kendall, this interactive 3-hour YEP Crew Youth Workshop will take you through the basics of what it means for you to be in a healthy and respectful relationship, as well as information on what you can do to protect yourself from risks and other risky behaviours.

Next week when we’re in Northam, we will be facilitating our second Engaging Young People in Youth SHBBV Issues FREE workshop with staff from the Wheatbelt Public Health Unit. We’re doing this via video conference to the other Public Health Units around the Wheatbelt! Hope to see you then 🙂

We’re back at UWA Uni Hall next week doing some fun outreach stuff with the UWA Health Promotion Unit!!! Come see Aksh, Shaina & Matt and play some games with us, ask us a question, or just generally hang. See yas then!

The YEP Project is going on a road trip to…NORTHAM!!! We will be holding a series of workshop there, with the first one being the Engaging Young People in Youth SHBBV Issues Youth Sector Workshop to be hosted by our new friends over at Avon Youth.

Join us at the next SHARE Workshop to discuss useful resources, share experiences and explore ways of working with people and communities from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) backgrounds.

YEP Crew is going back to run education sessions at Bentley Adolescent Mental Health Unit, and we’re super excited! Jordina & Claire will be running a fun & interactive session with the young people around the topic of Respectful Relationships & Consent 🙂

YEP Crew Golda & Jordina will be at Bush Court for this years Murdoch University Festival Day!!! Come and say hey, play some Ping Pong Bingo, learn about interesting SHBBV facts, play with the plushy toys, grab some condoms – and if you’re lucky, some lollies, and have the best day ever!

YEP Crew are beginning their journey with the Perth Inner City Youth Service (PICYS) by coming to their drop in Base Camp Sessions! This week, YEP Crew Golda & Susan will be at Base Camp hanging out with the peeps and getting to know what they think about all this ‘sex and sexual health stuff’! Come on down 🙂

This is our second time back at Anchors Youth Centre, and we’re are EXCITED! YEP Crew Peer Educators, Habiba & Darci, will be running a fun and interactive sessions around Respectful Relationships & Consent with the awesome young peeps, so come along and hang out with us! 😀

Come and see YEP Crew member’s Aksh, Fatema & Julian as they go nuts at UWA’s O-Day 2017! There will be SO MUCH room for activities 😛 Thanks so much to UWA’s Health Promotion Unit for letting us hang with them!

YEP Crew members Fatema & Claire will be hanging out at this years University of Notre Dame’s O-Day Fiesta! This is the first year YEP’s been involved with this event, and we’re super super excited to be there! So if you’re around the Freo campus, come say g’day 🙂 Thanks so much to the UNDA’s Student Guild for having us this year!

YEP Crew will be bustin’ a move at Curtin University’s O-Day 2017! If you’re out and about at Curtin Uni campus that day, come say hey and hang out with YEP Crew members Claire & Susan. Thanks so much to the Curtin Health Promotion Unit and Student Guild for having us this year 🙂 See you there!

YEP Crew have been invited back to run a 3-hour workshop on Engaging Young People in SHBBV Issues with students studying their Diploma of Youth Work at North Metro TAFE in Joondalup. YEP Crew Peer Educators Jordina, Habiba & Fatema will be facilitating this workshop, which we’re super excited about!

Amazing YEP Crew members Julian, Jordina, Shaina & Claire drove down with YEP Project Officer Nia to Harvey Senior High School for National Condom Day 2017 to run workshops with their students. What an incredible day!

The Safe Schools Coalition WA team are visiting Kalgoorlie and Esperance the week of 13 – 17^th February, running two free professional development workshops for school-based workers who are interested in learning more about how to create safer and more inclusive school environments for same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students, staff and families. Register today!!!

Your Tool Kit of Skills for Sexual Health Education

Have you been inspired by our Nuts and Bolts course and want to extend your sexual health education and group facilitation skills? Then this is the course for you!

Tools of the Trade will develop your competence and confidence to plan, deliver and evaluate effective sexual health education programs. This course is fun, interactive and practical.

YEP Crew members, Aksh & Darci, will be out and about at the City of Wanneroo’s Skate Park Launch this Friday!!! Go visit them at the YEP stall for a chat, ask some questions and grab some freebies 🙂

The YEP Project will be holding a consultation with the MYAN WA Network at their final meeting for 2016 on the ‘Youth CaLD Competency Training – SHBBV’. Hope to see you there!

YEP is headed to Bunbury for World AIDS Day 2016 to facilitate the ‘Talking Positive’ Workshop!!!

An often difficult topic to discuss, the YEP Project will be covering the ins and outs of HIV/AIDS, with particular emphasis in providing best practice strategies on how to engage young people in this extremely sensitive topic.

Facilitated by YEP Crew members, Susan Theseira, Matthew Bacon and Golda Signal, come and join the YEP Project at this FREE event to celebrate World AIDS Day 2016!

Have you been inspired by our Nuts and Bolts course and want to extend your sexual health education and group facilitation skills? Then this is the course for you!

Tools of the Trade will develop your competence and confidence to plan, deliver and evaluate effective sexual health education programs. This course is fun, interactive and practical.

The YEP Crew will be out in force as part of the WA AIDS Councils’ Keep It Safe Summer (KISS) Program for Leavers 2016 in Dunsborough & Rottnest Island.

YEP Crew will be at the Ishar ‘Health & Wellbeing Day for Women and Children’.

The YEP Crew will be running a youth SHBBV workshop with the young people from the Bentley Adolescent Unit.

YEP Crew will be out and about at the upcoming Mundaring Youth Day! There will be free activities, rides, and sausage sizzle. Come along and see us on this amazing family fun event!

The YEP Crew will be out in force at the upcoming City of Wanneroo Skate Park Launch. Join us for an awesome family fun day with skate exhibitions, activities, food and music! Hope to see you there!

Starting in online spaces and social networking, young people have begun moving away from traditional gender and sexual identity descriptors like male/female and heterosexual or LGBT.  In the past few years, dozens of new identities have emerged for both gender identity (e.g., cis-gendered, demiboy, genderfluid, non-binary) and sexuality (pansexual, sapiosexual, homoflexible).  These identities are often very deeply-felt and very meaningful to many young people.

Guerrilla Art is an event being held at Ellenbrook Secondary College on Saturday the 5th of November, from 10am to 4pm, showcasing and celebrating Perth artists and musicians in the field of Hip Hop, linking with our in school program, Hip Hop 101.

Parents and carers are welcome to attend this free interactive workshop to learn more about youth sexual health, how to engage young people in conversations about sexuality, and strategies to help work through any issues that may arise.

The workshop will cover topics including the influence of media, negotiation, contraception/STI’s, sexual identity and body image, and where to turn to for more information and support.

This seminar seeks to support the work of male teachers to deliver comprehensive sexuality and relationships education (SRE) to students that aligns with the WA curriculum. It is an important event for male teachers and anyone who works in schools to support them.

Join us for afternoon tea followed by a fun, stimulating and interactive workshop!

“At the core of contemporary debates around young people’s online sexual practices, new technologies, social media, and childhood sexuality has been the phenomenon of sexting.”

YEP Project Officer, Anania, was a panelist at this year’s AHPA & PHAA WA Career Showcase. The panel included professionals from the health promotion and public health fields, as well as our good friend from SHQ, Megan!

YEP Crew will be at the 2016 Stress Less Event this year running a stall, facilitating games, and speaking to young people and participants about SHBBV issues and the link between sexual health and mental health! We’re super excited!!

YEP Crew will be running a stall at Fremantle Esplanade Plaza for the ‘Changing Your Tune’ Fremantle Health Week Event 2016. There will be other info stalls, food, bands, and activities for the whole family – should be a great day out! Come see us 🙂

YEP Crew will be out and about (come rain or shine!) at the Armadale Multi Sports Day at Gwynne Park Oval in Armadale. Come and see us, or try a new sport, mingle and make new friends – this will be an awesome event!

YEP Crew had a blast presenting to young people from Foyer Oxford. Thanks so much to Kate from Ladder for organising this awesome event!!!

The YEP Project presents this FREE workshop ‘Beyond Bloody Basics’, facilitated by our good friends at WA AIDS Council & Hepatitis WA.

This workshop is for youth workers and staff working closely with young people who would like to know about all things youth & blood borne viruses (BBVs).

YEP Crew will be at TAFE Leederville’s Networking Event running a stall, chatting to students, and helping them to learn about the value of networking and partnerships in developing and running youth programs during this event 😀

YEP Crew will be out and about at the 2016 Djilba Festival celebrating the Noongyar culture and raising awareness on Aboriginal peoples’ overall health and wellbeing.

YEP Crew members, Susan & Matthew, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘SURE’ Workshop at Peter Moyes Anglican School.

YEP Crew will be out in force at the upcoming Murdoch University Multicultural Day on Thursday 15 September from 10am-2pm! We’re super excited to mingle with students, have discussions on how to best approach SHBBV with CaLD communities using culturally respectful strategies, and have heaps of fun 🙂 Hope to see you there!

The YEP Crew and YEP Project Officer Nia will be doing the ‘Nuts & Bolts’ Training facilitated by our mates over at SHQ.

YEP Crew members, Susan & Matthew, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘KISS Leavers Presentation’ at Woodvale Senior College.

The WA AIDS Council have a range of workshops, forums and activities for people living with HIV in Western Australia.

Coming Up: Treatments Forum

Wednesday September 7th, 6.30pm-9.30pm LIMITED spaces remain. RSVP: Alli Paterson apaterson@waaids.com or phone 9482 0000.

YEP Crew will be out at the City of Joondalup Friday night Youth Drop In Centre just chillin’ and hanging out with the young peeps, and running a few fun activities, so come on down and come see us in action!!!

YEP Crew members, Susan & Matthew, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘KISS Leavers Presentation’ at Woodvale Senior College.

YEP Crew will be out and about with Hepatitis WA at the Mater Dei Health & Wellbeing Day Expo doing outreach and community engagement. Hope to see you there!

Building on from our first time out at the City of Joondalup’s Girls Inc Program, we’re coming back to do a formal SHBBV session with the girls! So, YEP Crew members Jordina, Fatema, Susan, Claire, and YEP Project Officer Nia, will be running a fun education workshop with the group 🙂

YEP Crew members, Fatema & Golda, will be assisting our friend Brenna from Hepatitis WA with their YOUR Health workshop at Anchor Point Heathridge.

YEP Crew members, Julian & Susan, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Governor Stirling Senior High School.

YEP Crew members, Aksh & Darci, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Governor Stirling Senior High School.

Join us here at the YEP Project in celebrating how proud we are of our LGBTIQ young people by popping down to YACWA Office on 196 Oxford Street, Leederville, to grab some ‘Wear It Purple Day’ merch and take a photo during the 2016 Wear It Purple Day here in Perth!!!!

YEP Crew members, Darci & Susan, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Governor Stirling Senior High School.

YEP Crew will be heading out to the City of Joondalup’s Girls Inc program starting August 24. YEP Crew members, Susan & Fatema, will be doing some informal engagement with the girls attending the group which is super exciting!!!

YEP Crew members, Aksh & Darci, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Governor Stirling Senior High School.

YEP Crew members – Claire, Susan & Tahnae – along with YEP Project Officer Nia, will be running a 3-hour workshop with North Metropolitan TAFE Diploma of Youth Work Students on how to engage young people in SHBBV issues.

We will be commemorating those we have lost, raising awareness of Opioid Overdose, and providing information about what community members can do to prevent and manage overdose.

YEP Crew members, Julian & Darci, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Governor Stirling Senior High School.

YEP Crew members Claire & Golda, as well as YEP Project Officer Nia, will be with SHQ at the Butler College Health Expo doing youth outreach and fun community engagement.

YEP Crew members, Aksh & Susan, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Getting the Facts’ Workshop at Willetton Senior High School.

YEP Crew members, Claire & Golda, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA Aids Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Safe Sex No Regrets’ Workshop at Ellenbrook Senior College.

YEP Crew members, Tahnae & Matthew, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA Aids Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Getting the Facts’ Workshop at Perth College.

YEP Crew members, Fatema & Tahnae, will be assisting Hepatitis WA on their ‘YOUR Health’ Program Wind Up with students at Anchor Point Heathridge.

YEP Crew members, Claire & Golda, will be working alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC) to run the ‘Getting the Facts’ Workshop at Perth College.

The YEP Crew’s second session with Ellenbrook Senior College students, assisting the WA AIDS Council on their education workshops.

The YEP Crew will be commencing their outreach/education workshops, alongside one of our amazing partners, the WA AIDS Council (WAAC).

JOIN US TO MAKE THE ELIMINATION OF VIRAL HEPATITIS OUR NEXT GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT!!!

The YEP Crew is going on a Training Retreat! Woop!

This year not only is YEP attending Fairground 2016…BUT we’re also presenting!!!

Creating safe and inclusive environments for same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students, staff and families.