Upcoming Trainings

MEDIA TRAINING: facilitated by Emily May from YAPA and will include information on how to promote media events - I.e. how to get the media interested in what they're doing, and also how to run good media interviews or press releases once they do have their attention.
DETAILS: November 17th at Bankstown Civic Tower - Level 1 HR Training room from 9:30am-12:30pm.
Please arrive at 9:15am for a 9:30am start!


CULTURAL COMPETENCY TRAINING: How to work more effectively with aboriginal young people
DETAILS: November 24th at Bankstown Town Hall from 10am-2pm.
Please arrive at 9:45am for a 10am start! Lunch will be provided.

Executive Committee

The executive committee for BWWYN has now been established!
Thank you Mary (BMYS), Anne and Thong (CHNC), Paola (CNC), Maddy (Horizon Theatre), and Kim (VAWA) for joining!

Youth Week 2009

Please check out http://www.bankstownyouth.blogspot.com/ to find more information regarding the events and competitions happening for this year's Youth Week celebrations.

Seasons Greetings

Hi BWWYN,

I wanted to wish you all a Happy Holidays and safe New Year!

I sincerely look forward to starting fresh in 2009 at our February 4th Planning Day meeting.

I also wanted to encourage you all to take this opportunity now to post a comment about what you see as important issues to address next year and also for the Social Planning Workshops scheduled for March 4th.

What do you want for BWWYN next year?

Joint Events?

Team building activities?

Conferences?

Joint collaboration?
Discussion groups?

Sub committees?

Executive roles?

Training opportunities?

What are the issues BWWYN want to address?

Public space?

Education?

Health?

Recreation opportunites?

Technology?

Let's make BWWYN meaningful, worthwhile and successful for 2009!

Please add you comments - I want to hear what you have to say!

Welcome BWWYN

Welcome members of BWWYN to our new blog site!!! We can use this blog page to post comments about our views on current youth issues, needs and events. For those of you who want to post information regarding your upcoming events, please send me an email with any attachments, and I will upload them onto the site. The success of this blog page depends on you! So please make sure to visit this page regularly and add your comments! Feel free to send me any photos, or links to your own webpages too! Thanks again BWWYN - and happy blogging!

Bus to Beach 2009

Please click on the picture for more information regarding the Council Bus to Beach Service running these school holidays.

Impact of the global financial crisis on social services

Hi all,

Please click on the link below for an interesting read regarding the impact of the global financial crisis on social services in Australia by Australian Policy Online.
http://www.apo.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=241091