Positive change starts with you!
Our Youth Participation and Leadership programs offer a range of opportunities for young people to connect with others, learn and develop skills, have your voices heard, and create positive change in your lives and communities.
We believe:
- Anyone who takes any action to create positive change is practicing leadership
- There are many ways of practicing leadership – from every day actions to large-scale movements
- Leadership can be formal and informal – you don’t have to hold a formal position of leadership to have positive influence.
Current programs
From FREE training workshops, to youth-led projects and networks – find a program that’s right for you below.
Culture Spring
Culture Spring, a youth-led social enterprise powered by CMY, bridges the gap between organisations and multicultural young people, creating pathways for meaningful participation, leadership, and social change.
Explore
Explore provides an opportunity for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to have direct input into the research that impacts their lives.
We facilitate meaningful collaboration between young people and researchers, to enhance the relevance and responsiveness of research (and post-research interventions) for young people.
Reverb 2.0
In this unique partnership, youth mental health expertise and lived experience are brought together in a multi-pronged, preventative mental health initiative.
Reverb 2.0 embeds multicultural lived experience to address stigma, build cultural responsiveness, and increase young people’s confidence to seek support.
Settling Smarter
Settling Smarter supports newly-arrived young people in Australia to transition and settle into the community.
We empower young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to build their knowledge, understanding and confidence to ensure they thrive in their new home country.
Western Young People’s Independent Network (WYPIN)
WYPIN is a youth-led group based in Melbourne’s west, working to develop programs that will benefit multicultural young people.
The network engages young people each year in a variety of programs that focus on capacity building, empowerment, engagement, advocacy and challenging racism in the community.
Youth Advisory Groups (YAG)
The Youth Advisory Groups (YAG) are an opportunity for young people to build their advisory and advocacy skills and influence the work of CMY.
Youth Transitions Support
Youth Transitions Support uses sport to engage newly-arrived young people in the City of Hume, and provide support in education, employment and training within the sporting industry.