Youth
Huge demand for workshops
Workshops providing young people with the opportunity to create their own artistic masterpiece at a workshop with local artist Gavan Serle have proved incredibly popular with all four workshops booked out.
People choose winners
A photo highlighting the motherly love between a cow and her calf has received more than 1600 votes from the community and won the people’s choice award in the council’s youth photography competition.
Council targets youth support
Surf Coast Shire Council has pledged to support and empower the shire’s young people, with aims to improve mental health support, community facilities and climate action.
Headspace site opens to help Colac youths
A Federal MP has encouraged young people to check out Colac’s new youth mental health and wellbeing service.
Youth strategy unveiled
Surf Coast Shire residents can comment on their council’s draft Youth Strategy.
Youths share artistic talents
Colac and district teens have had an artistic introduction to the shire’s new youth officer.
Shire youths can sign up for vibrant group
Young people aged 12 to 25 can sign up to make a difference in the Colac Otway community, through Colac Otway Shire Council’s Youth Advisory Group COLOSYL.
Keeping Colac youths on track
A new Colac youth initiative aims to support at-risk young people with mental health issues or intellectual disabilities to achieve their goals, and deter them from crime.