We support young people aged 12-25 years in a range of ways, including direct service delivery through our libraries, recreation centres, SIGNAL, ArtPlay, arts hubs and programs for International Students. We also fund a range of crisis, social support, recreation and education programs for young people through grants and contracts.
Youth services are open to any young person who is aged 12 to 25 years and lives or studies in the City of Melbourne.
Learn more about the support and programs available in our Guide to Melbourne for young people.
We work to make sure all our programs and services are inclusive and welcoming. To ensure our services continue to adapt to changing youth demographics and respond to their needs, we undertook a comprehensive Youth Services review in 2024.
We are now developing a long-term Youth Strategy to implement the review’s recommendations.
We look forward to working with young people in the community so they can be heard and accommodated in decisions made across the City of Melbourne, including the service requirements for the next Youth Services contract.
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Our funded service providers
This generalist youth programming targets young people aged 12 to 25 who live, study, work or visit the City of Melbourne, with a particular focus on:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
- young people from multicultural communities
- young people identifying as LGBTIQA+
- international students
- young people living in the municipality’s public housing estates
- young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
They work with young people to design and deliver programs that allow them to connect with one another, their families and the wider community. These services work to amplify the voices of young people and help them realise their hopes and aspirations.
Youth programs and services include:
- sport and recreation activities
- cooking classes
- safe programs and spaces for young women and young men to come together and have fun
- life skills programs
- programs specifically for young people who identify as LGBTIQA+ and young queer people of colour.
- support for health and mental health concerns, education, employment, legal and family
- individual intensive support (such as case management and counselling) for young people who have higher support needs.
- 100 Drummond Street, Carlton
- North Melbourne Community Centre
49-53 Buncle Street, North Melbourne
Frontyard offers a collection of co-located services which address the physical, emotional and social needs of young people aged 12 to 25 who spend time in the Melbourne CBD and are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Young people can access support in relation to:
- accommodation
- Centrelink
- computer access
- employment
- family support and mediation
- general information and support
- health (doctors, nurses and dentists)
- legal advice.
Most services are drop-in so no appointment is necessary. Services include:
- Melbourne Youth Support Service (MYSS)
- Melbourne Gateway Reconnect
- Young People’s Health Service (YPHS)
- Job Services Australia (JSA)
- Youthlaw
- Family Reconciliation and Mediation Program (FRMP)
- Centrelink
- Young and Pregnant Parenting Program.
19 King Street, Melbourne
Phone03 9611 2411 or Freecall 1800 800 531
Website- Frontyard Youth Services External link
- Melbourne City Mission External link is the lead agency responsible for governing and managing the operational development of Frontyard.
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