South West Youth Services (NSW)

South West Youth Services provides education, employment, life skills and counselling support to marginalised youth aged from 12 to 24 years.

Through a range of 12 programs, South West Youth Services staff work with young people to develop solutions based on the strengths each one of them have.

Working from a community-based focus, Mission Australia staff draw on the client’s own skills and energy while they are still living in their community; as opposed to removing them and placing them in institutions (which may include custodial settings).

This approach helps the young person to deal with their core issues and develop positive coping skills, and eventually build independence and resilience that will carry them into adulthood.

SWYS provides the following programs:

• Drug and alcohol awareness program (Campbelltown)
• Post-release support program, which works with adolescents who have left detention (Campbelltown) 
• Bankstown Early Intervention Prevention Program 
• Links To Learning programs (Mt Druitt, Fairfield, Campbelltown, Wollongong and Robertson) 
• Youth Counselling service (Campbelltown) 
• South West Youth Peer Education (based at Miller) 
• Youth Crime Prevention Program (Campbelltown) 

For more information about South West Youth Services contact:

Trevor Summers
Service Manager Mission Australia
T (02) 4621 7400
E summerst@missionaustralia.com.au

To contact Mission Australia's Community Services in NSW, please phone (02) 9641 5000.