Youthline is a New Zealand Youth Development Organisation with youth, for youth. It can be contacted 24/7 on Helpline: 0800 37 66 33 (free phone from landline); Free Text: 234; Email: [email protected] ; or Web: www.youthline.co.nz .
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Establishment
Youthline was first established in Auckland, New Zealand in 1970 by Father Felix Donnelly and others.
National focus
Today, Youthline provides a nationally linked youth development organisation, providing a range of services on the basis of a framework spanning three areas that it sees as essential to enhancing the wellbeing and outcomes of young people:
- Community development and social change
- Training and youth development, Mentoring and Events
- Service provision including Counselling, Early Intervention (Assessment, Information, Referral and Follow Up), Health promotion, seminars, Youth One Stop Services (Primary Health Care), Employment Brokering and Social Enterprise Activities
Youthline has been changing the lives of young New Zealanders since 1970 through youth help and personal development programmes. Youthline is a Youth development organisation which has developed a unique, community based approach to the development of people and the delivery of services. Youth development is about being connected, having quality relationships, fostering participation and being able to access good information.
Youthline is dedicated to involving young people.
Youthline is committed to a Collective Impact model working in partnership with many agencies to achieve great outcomes for Youth in New Zealand.
Youthline’s foundation service the Youth Help Line is a Collective Impact Youth Development initiative that brings all these elements together where independent Youthline organisations work together to deliver the Youth Help Line and associated services.
Based in 9 local centers around the country, Youthline enlists 1100 volunteers nationwide (100 of whom are working in an online context).