Children and Youth Programs aim to build the capacity of children and young people, which is to enhance their social involvement, build emotional skills and positive attitudes, increase academic performance, reduce internalising symptoms and externalising risky behaviours.
Junaya provides Children and Youth Support Programs to help build young peoples’ confidence in themselves and their surroundings.
Our tailored 12-week program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people through:
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Educational engagement
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Positive social connections
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Pathways to independence
We work alongside young people, families, and communities to build confidence, strengthen identity, and support meaningful transitions into adulthood.
Culturally safe. Community-driven. Future-focused.
Funded through the Community Benefit Payment Scheme.
Service Eligibility: 12 – 18 years Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
Cultural Youth Group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People (Ages 10–18)
The program promotes:
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Cultural identity and pride
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Social and emotional well-being
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Positive peer and community connections
Through culturally safe activities and group support, young people build resilience, strengthen their sense of belonging, and grow into confident, connected individuals.
Funded through the Community Benefit Payment Scheme
Service eligibility: 10 – 18 years Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
An award winning six-week emotional regulation coruse for adolescents aged between 11 and 17. RAGE (Re-navigatiing Anger and Guilty Emotions) is deisgned for young people have difficulty controlling their emotions.
This program helps students to identify feelings of anger, along with triggers, and explore alternate strategies to coping with frustration. RAGE is a strength based solution focused program that is hands on, practical and also fun for kids. Parents, teachers, carers and the like have commented on how this course has helped them and their children deal with the most misunderstood human emotion, anger.
Target Group for the Program: Adolescents Ages 11 – 17 years.
Adolescence is often marked by emotional turbulence, driven by hormonal shifts and significant brain development—particularly in the limbic system and the amygdala, which processes sensory input and emotional responses.
These physiological changes can lead to heightened emotional experiences such as anger, fear, aggression, and sadness. As a result, teenagers may feel as though they’re on an emotional roller coaster, often without understanding why.
This six-week course is designed to help adolescents better understand their emotions and develop healthy ways to express them, rather than internalising their feelings. Emotions like fear, frustration, anxiety, embarrassment, and sadness are often primary emotions. Without the tools to identify and express them constructively, these feelings can escalate and manifest in harmful behaviours.
Please contact us to organise this program at your school.
Target Group for the Program: Young people aged 10 – 15 years.
A Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 15–17 years. It consists of two interactive workshops: one on Relationship Violence, and one on Sex and Relationships, followed by creative workshops and community campaigns. The overall aims of the program is to equip young people with the knowledge needed to have respectful relationships, encourage and develop their skills in critical thinking and assist them in being able to problem solve and communicate effectively.
Love Bites is a flexible model with options to use a full day or multi session delivery approach. The program emphasises the importance of a whole-of-school commitment to respectful relationship education.
Love Bites aims to provide young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. All Love Bites programming takes a strength-based approach and views young people as active participants who can make choices for themselves and their relationships when supported with information and opportunity for skill development.
Service Eligibility: Young/Adolescents ages 15–17
