Learning Creates Australia has demonstrated a commitment to ensure young people’s voice, leadership and agency are embedded at all levels of our work, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. We have young people on our Board, Advisory Council, across our community projects and commissioned to contribute their unique skills.
Young people bring unique strengths, talents, insights, and creativity to tackling complex challenges. By granting them access to power and decision-making roles, we enhance our capacity to design systems that are innovative and purpose-driven. So far, we have employed and trained over 38 young leaders from various states and territories, fostering impactful change and collaboration.
Projects they have worked on include:
- Co-researchers, designing, running and delivering a research project and report to engage and embed the voices of young people
- Communicators creating youth-centered resources to support young people to apply to the SkillSpark university pathway
- Broadcasters, developing and delivering a youth-led podcast, responsible for interviews, editing, video and audio episodes, the brand and social media campaign
- Embedded with leading practitioners to help advance their initiatives
- Gathering community insights and sentiments from their peers and community about pathways into local growth industries
- Sharing their lived expertise and consult with their communities on the development of early-stage prototypes through the Social Lab
“Learning Creates has empowered me as a young person. The training, facilitation and trust placed in the associates and I in our research project has been great. You guys have high expectations of us and other young people which is empowering. But you also give us space to learn, grow and be facilitated by your expertise which I have really enjoyed… It has been a steep learning curve, but one that I have really appreciated. In my opinion [co-design] is the best form of collaboration because it allows power and decision making to be spread evenly across everyone involved.”
– Young person employed and trained with Learning Creates as a co-researcher from Victoria on The Power of Recognising More” research project.
