Advocacy & Campaigning — A Skills Workshop for Young People from Prevent Support Heal!
Event description
The Youth Affairs Council of WA (YACWA) is partnering with Prevent Support Heal to host a FREE all-day training workshop to develop and strengthen your skills in campaigning and advocacy.
This workshop will cover a variety of tools and strategies essential to campaigning, including:
- Talking to the media
- Effective phone-banking & door-knocking
- Using social media to spread your message
- Impactful storytelling
- Meeting with and writing to your MP
You’ll be learning from veteran campaigner, journalist and media consultant Sarah Quinton from Prevent, Support, Heal and policy experts from the WA Association for Mental Health (WAAMH).
Places are strictly limited and attendance is by registration only. If you are unable to attend, please contact mason@yacwa.org.au.
Registration is available for young people aged 12 to 25. Morning tea and lunch will be provided.
GETTING THERE
Foyer Oxford is accessible by car and public transport. Leederville Station is approximately 500m away and the bus route 15 stops nearby from Perth or Glendalough Station. Paid street parking and timed parking is available on Richmond Street.
VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
Foyer Oxford is a wheelchair-accessible venue with wheelchair-accessible, gender-neutral toilets. Please let us know of your accessibility requirements in your registration.
ABOUT YACWA
YACWA is the peak body for young people and the youth sector, operating primarily as a human rights organisation that seeks to address the exclusion of young people in a rapidly changing society.
Membership is free for young people aged 25 and under. Join us here!
ABOUT PREVENT SUPPORT HEAL
Prevent Support Heal is a campaign run by peak body for community mental health, the Western Australian Association for Mental Health. Prevent Support Heal is calling for the State Government to increase funding into prevention and community support services to keep people safe in their own homes and communities, rather than going to hospital. Sign the E-Petition today!