Youth Centres & Community Groups

We promote sustainable economic and social development in communities through individual and community achievement, providing supports through management of:

• Julalikari Workshops & Construction
• Barkley hardware / BP service station/ Funeral services / Jajjikari café
• Marlungku-Kari child and family centre offering parenting programs and playgroup
• Nyinkka Nyunyu Art Centre
• Manu-Jinakurnta Land management and nursery
• Aged and disability services including home and community care
• Night patrol

Kalano Community Association, an Aboriginal organisation, was established to meet the varying needs of the Aboriginal community, its members and their families within the Township of Katherine and its environs.

Over the past 40+ years, we have created and developed effective programs that address shortfalls in housing availability, employment and economic activity, social, community and health-related programs for our member population.

Kalano Community Association offers:

• Residential rehabilitation programs at Venndale Rehabilitation Centre
• Katherine Youth Outreach Transport Service
• Disability Support Program
• Community Night Patrol
• Municipal and Essential Services
• Commonwealth Home Support Program
• Community Development Program
• Mechanical Services

Our program engages young people ages 5-25 across our region, delivering regular youth program in Amoonguna, Areyonga (Utju), Docker River (Kaltukatjara), Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), Hermannsburg (Ntaria), Imanpa, Finke (Aputula), Kintore (Walungurru), Mount Liebig (Watiyawanu), Papunya (Warumpi), Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Apurte) & Titjikala.

We deliver activities that engage young people in sport and recreation, cultural learning, health education, leadership development, safety and diversion & support to engage with engage with education, training and development.

This program provides a wide range of support services for young people aged 12 – 21 years of age from refugee, humanitarian and migrant backgrounds who:

• have arrived in Australia in the previous five years on humanitarian and/or family visas; and
• are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Reconnect Youth aims to assist young people to stabilise their living situation and improve their level of engagement with family, work, education, training and their local community.

Melaleuca Australia has been appointed and is funded by the Department of Social Services as a Specialist Service Provider to coordinate and deliver the program.

Central to our service delivery is a strong emphasis on culturally appropriate support strategies and the engagement of specialists to address the individual needs of our clients, such as mental health services.

Missionbeat NT is a mobile outreach service providing support to young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, disengagement and mental health issues in Darwin, Palmerston and surrounding regions. Operating on Friday and Saturday nights, our Missionbeat youth workers engage young people in places where they meet. The service offers brief interventions, engagement and direct referrals to services, with ongoing case management provided by Mission Australia’s complementary local programs.

Multicultural Youth NT (MyNT) is a youth-led organisation which envisions a united body of empowered young people, equipped with skills and resources to make their ideas reality. We are about giving youth from all backgrounds the chance to integrate and interact socially, share ideas, and have a voice in addressing issues that affect them. We aim to empower young people to make ideas and aspirations come alive.

For more information, please get in touch.

JPR develops the leadership skills of young people by providing activities not generally available at schools. Recruitment begins in Year 6, with the programs commencing as they start Year 7, with the program running for a 3-year period concluding at the end of Year 9.

JFAIP is designed to assist families/carers in dealing with individual juveniles who have engaged in fire play, fire-setting or who have lit fires but not committed a criminal offence.

Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services Cadet program is a two-year program for students commencing Year 11.