ART BRINGS HOPE TO MELBOURNE (Jun 2010)
The Youth Projects Living Room unveiled The Living Wall, a mural created by homeless and disadvantaged individuals, in the heart of Melbourne’s street art scene, the iconic Hosier Lane.
HOSIER LANE HAS NEW BANKSYS (Apr 2010)
Homeless and disadvantaged Melburnians are finding their inner ‘Banksy’ through stencil art workshops run by not for profit organisation Youth Projects in their Hosier Lane site, the Living Room.
HUME RESIDENTS ARE NOT ALONE (Jan 2010)
Youth Projects, based in Glenroy, is one of Melbourne’s longest standing drug and alcohol services, providing support to Hume residents for over 25 years and an outreach service for the past decade.
YOUTH PROJECTS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS (Wed 25 Nov 09)
Minister for Health congratulates Youth Projects for 25 Years Community Service.
INTERVENTION IS VITAL (Mon 31 Aug 09)
Neurosurgeon Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld has highlighted the appalling impact of rising youth violence.
POSTCODE LINK TO CITY VIOLENCE (Tue 11 Aug 09)
The apparent high rates of violent crimes within the CBD committed by youths from Melbourne's northern and western suburbs is best understood by a range of indicators of poverty and disadvantage.
LOCAL GROUP AWARDED NEW EMPLOYMENT SERVICES CONTRACT (Tue 7 Apr 09)
Youth Projects is one of only eight agencies in this area to win a new contract providing services to young job seekers.
GLENROY GROUP TO ACCESS $41 MILLION JOB FUND (Fri 13 Mar 09)
Glenroy-based Youth Projects has been selected to join a panel of agencies who can access a new $41million funding pool to assist job seekers.
THE FORGOTTEN ONES - The Age Letters (Mon 9 Feb 09)
Concern over the plight of Melbourne’s 10,000 homeless people barely rated a mention during this
record hot spell, while we talked about caring for goldfish, pot plants and wildlife.
HEAT FATAL FOR HOMELESS (Sat. 7 Feb 09)
With 10,000 homeless people on Melbourne streets daily the dangers of dehydration, heat
exhaustion and heat stroke are very real and potentially fatal.
HOT AND HOMELESS IN THE CITY (Tue 3 Feb 09)
In record high heat, being homeless in Melbourne was at least as miserable as it is in the depths of winter.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS (Tue 3 Feb 09)
Read what some clients said about their experience during one of Melbourne’s worst heat waves in 100 years.
DOES SEX ED ACTUALLY WORK (Tue 20 Jan 09)
While much of the available evidence is ‘observational’, one clear observation is that what we are doing now does not work.
