YWCA NSW supports vulnerable people across NSW at times in their lives when they need it most, regardless of their age, religion or gender. They help individuals, families and whole communities develop behaviours and skills to become strong and self-reliant.

Their ‘Y It Takes A Village’ strategy drives their way of working in a ‘whole of community’ approach. This is centred upon collaborating with key community and service providers to ensure assistance is coordinated, effectively targeted and achieves the best results for people and the community in which they live. This is called ‘Place Management in Community Hubs’ and it is less about doing things ‘to’ or ‘for’ communities but increasingly acting ‘with’ communities and empowering them to build capacity and sustainability.

YWCA will be using the funds raised to establish the ‘FICAP Voices Program’, a program that will help mentor, educate and support children from Blair Athol in south-western Sydney.

For further information, please visit http://www.ywcansw.com.au/

For more than 30 years, Open Family Australia has been providing a range of Outreach services to young people aged between 12 and 25 with highly complex needs who are disengaged from society. Through its expertise and proven methodology, Open Family outreach workers go to where young people are. They look in the hot spots such as railway stations, shopping centres, rooming houses and squats.

For further information, please visit http://www.openfamily.com.au/