The Youth Coalition undertakes a wide range of activities and projects to achieve its vision and purpose.These activities broadly fall into four categories Advocacy & Representation, Capacity Building & Sector Development, Policy Development, Communications and Research & Evaluation. These activities include a wide range of projects, however, the distinction and line between these activities is a conceptual division, or heuristic. In practice many of these activities and projects intersect and overlap, often mutually interdependent, informing and supporting each other.
Systemic and strategic advocacy
Systemic advocacy is at the core of our approach – our efforts to persuade government, Directorates, organisations and others to change their policies and practice has a great impact and benefits many young people. We conceptualise advocacy as a set of organised activities designed to influence the policies and actions of others to achieve positive change. In other words, advocacy is an activity that is conducted to achieve outcomes – positive changes in the lives of our target population.
What we do
- The Youth Coalition provides advocacy and representation through a range of mechanisms.
- We provide a range of activities that aim to support workers, services, and the youth sector to build their capacity and capability.
- We provide policy analysis and development relating to a range of social policy and program decisions that affect young people and youth services in the ACT.
- The Youth Coalition regularly communicates with support workers, services, the youth sector, young people and government.
- We conduct a range of research and evaluation activities and projects, that seek to improve understanding of the needs of young people and families; and inform and support improvements to services and systems
- The Youth Coalition is committed to ensuring that the voices and experiences of young people inform policy, advocacy and research initiatives.
