ONLINE: Establishing and Running a Successful Youth Advisory Group (YAG)

Due to a number of requests, the Youth Affairs Council of WA (YACWA) is running an ONLINE training on the topic of Establishing and Running a Successful Youth Advisory Group (YAG) . 

This is an opportunity for you to book one or more places at the session without incurring the total cost of booking YACWA to run a training just for your organisation on this topic.

Target audience

Staff from organisations that are looking to set up a Youth Advisory Group (YAG) or want to improve the group that they currently run.

Workshop overview

This workshop  will help youth and community sector workers develop a strong understanding how to set up and maintain a best-practice youth advisory group. In this workshop, you will:

• Learn what a Youth Advisory Group is and the different reasons that motivate young people to join one
• Explore the purpose of your YAG
• Look at how to recruit and attract a diversity of young people to your group
• Learn how to explore the skills of the young people involved, as well as maximise and develop those skills
• Discuss the topics of welcoming and onboarding, age and consent, processes and procedures, safe-guarding and supports, making the YAG youth-friendly and accessible, running hybrid meetings and planning the first meeting
• Explore strategies for embedding the YAG within the organisation

The training will be co-facilitated by and include a youth panel with three of YACWA's Youth Consultants who all have considerable experience of being part of and running Youth Advisory Groups.

This is a highly interactive workshop, with group activities and discussions, which will be run in online break out rooms.

As it is a three-hour workshops, two short breaks are included in this session.

** Please note that this session will only run if we reach a minimum of 15 participants. We will advise you as soon as we reach that number, and refund if the training does not go ahead.