Celebrating young people’s contribution on Tasmania’s NW Coast. In 2020 YFCC are launching a new event that will celebrate the contributions of young people to our community. The Inspiring Youth Awards aim to highlight the positive, everyday actions that so many of our young people undertake, but often don’t get recognition for or even noticed. With [...]

As restrictions around Tasmania begin to ease and life returns to normal, the team at YFCC have been working hard to ensure we can resume many of our services in a safe and socially distanced way. Maintaining the health and safety of our clients, participants and staff is the ultimate priority. While we look forward to [...]

Working It Out (WIO), Tasmania’s gender, sexuality and intersex status support and education service, is providing a special Tasmanian COVID-19 initiative Working It Out Together . While LGBTIQ+ people might experience the pandemic more acutely than others, we also have a long history of resilience and helping each other out which can help mitigate these impacts. [...]

Client Story 1 The Helping Young Families service has a few families who have all had babies about two to three weeks before Coronavirus COVID-19 hit Australia. For these families, the experience of COVID-19 has been exceptionally difficult. Two of these families are young Mums, with this being their first child. Given that all face to [...]

The Transitional Accommodation Support Service (TASS) works with young people and young parents to maintain their existing accommodation and/or make a successful move into long term, safe, and affordable housing. We believe all young people have the right to safe and sustainable accommodation. Young people, aged 15-20 years, who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of [...]

Families Week 2020 occurred between the 15th and the 21st of May. Like previous years, for Families Week YFCC partnered with the East Devonport Child and Family Centre and the Burnie Child and Family Centre to once again, celebrate ‘all things family’. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions the usual Families Week event was unable to occur, [...]

I have started with YFCC as a Crisis Accommodation Youth Worker and Emergency Relief Project Worker. I really enjoy being part of the Community Sector and helping people, be it as a Youth Worker or in the Emergency Relief Program. Helping the community in both the roles and seeing the positive change that people make in [...]

The Transitional Accommodation Support Service (TASS) supports young people as they transition to independent living. Whilst these strange times have certainly impacted our working environment, we are still able to support and guide our clients.  We are no longer able to see our clients face to face but remain having regular contact via phone.  For some [...]