Positive change starts with you!
Our Youth 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, to sports programs – find a program that’s right for you below.
Culture Spring
Adopting a co-design process, CMY supported a team of young people to conceptualise and design a youth-led business unit that is integrated within CMY. Culture Spring was officially launched in 2023.
Find out more.
Explore – NOW RECRUITING
EXPLORE provides an opportunity for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to have direct input into the research that impacts their lives. The project supports a partnership between young people and researchers in order to enhance the relevance and responsiveness of research (and post-research interventions) to young people.
Reverb 2.0 – NOW RECRUITING
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 of 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) – NOW RECRUITING
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 Group – NOW RECRUITING
The Youth Advisory Group is an opportunity for young people to build their advisory and advocacy skills and influence the work of CMY.
Youth Facilitators – NOW RECRUITING
Positive Change Makers provides youth leadership training for all experience levels, delivered by experienced youth facilitators.
Aspire to Lead is a targeted, term-long, strengths-based leadership program designed for students who are experiencing challenges engaging with the school and the education environment, with an aim to increase school connectedness and social cohesion.
Both programs are recruiting Youth Facilitators for 2025.
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.
Find out more.