Integrated Youth Services (NT)

NT Integrated Youth Services provides an activity and diversionary educational based program to four remote aboriginal communities (Aputula / Finke, Imanpa, Mutitjulu and Docker River / Kaltukatjara) in the Southern region of the Northern Territory. The program aims to:

• Increase the confidence, self reliance, leadership skills and life skills of young people by intensively engaging with them so they take responsibility for their own care and development and move away from welfare dependency
• Counteract negative influences - including those related to substance abuse - by engaging young people in a range of culturally, age and gender appropriate educational, social, cultural and recreational activities
• Help young people to build, and in some cases rebuild, their learning pathways to literacy and numeracy and other forms of accredited training