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Youth Services Direct Delivery

Case Management and Casework Services

Casework and case management services are delivered to refugee and migrant young people at MYSA’s two sites and via an outreach program in homes, schools and other community settings. In 2009, MYSA was selected by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to participate in the Humanitarian Services Panel to provide complex specialised and intensive case management support to humanitarian entrants with high and complex needs. Casework services are underpinned by a youth-development and strengths-based approach which identifies and builds on existing capacities and resources, and equips young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to address their own issues.

Skill development programs

MYSA also engages CALD young people in a range of group programs to develop life skills. Group work programs include:
  • Job readiness
  • Goal setting
  • Nutrition
  • Managing intergenerational conflict
  • Anger management
  • Budgeting and financial management
  • Maintaining private tenancies
  • Relationships and dating in Australia
  • Sexual health
  • Maintaining positive ethnic/cultural identity
  • Basic computer skills
  • Drug and alcohol use
  • Mental health and emotional wellbeing
  • Leadership
  • And more

All group work programs are youth-specific, culturally appropriate and designed to meet young people at whatever stage of personal, social and cultural development they are at.

Sport, recreation and the arts

MYSA recognises the importance of sport, recreation and the arts as successful strategies for engagement, participation and development of young people. MYSA runs a range of sport and recreation programs and arts throughout the year.

MY Music and Culture Festival

The M.Y. Music and Culture Festival is now an annual event running since 2007. It provides a platform for young performers to show their stuff to audiences in Rundle Mall in excess of 1000. Each year MYSA receives numerous requests from young people for another Music Festival to be held, not only because it gives them an opportunity to showcase their talents and meet new friends, but because it is one of the few community events organised especially for them. Carclew Youth Arts Centre’s “Off the Couch” (OTC) team have collaborated with MYSA on the festival since 2008. The Off the Couch program is a unique series of youth delivered live-music events which promote and showcase the talents of emerging young bands and musicians based in South Australia.

In addition, MYSA is funded by the Local, State and Federal Government to provide a wide range of programs, and projects to refugee and migrant young people.