Yarra Youth Services

29/08/2026

Yesterday our team headed out to the Northwest Local Government Area Youth Crime Forum alongside local government areas across the region 👥

We heard from some incredible speakers on Victorian crime prevention - diving into what’s driving youth crime, how we can better understand it, and most importantly, what we can all do together to make a real difference for young people in our communities. 💡

Always grateful for spaces that bring people together to have these important conversations. The work doesn’t stop here! 💪

23/08/2026

✨⛑️ FREE FIRST AID TRAINING ⛑️✨

Yarra Youth Services and the Neighbourhood Justice Centre offering free First Aid training, delivered by St John Ambulance Victoria St John Ambulance Victoria

🩹 Party Ready First Aid (Ages 15–18)
📅 Wednesday 23 September
🕙 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Jack Dyer Pavilion, corner of Highett and Gleadell Streets, Richmond
🥪 Lunch provided

🩹 First Aid Training (Ages 18–25)
📅 Wednesday 30 September
🕙 10:00am – 3:30pm
📍 Yarra Youth Centre, 156 Napier Street, Fitzroy
🥪 Lunch provided

Spaces are limited, so get in quick! You can register now via the link in the bio 🔗

Learn practical first aid skills, meet new people, and gain knowledge that could help save a life ❤️

13/08/2026

✨ Know a young person who’s out here making a difference? ✨

Last year, young person and regular at the Yarra Youth Centre took out the Young Person of the Year award at the Yarra Community Awards — and this year, it could be someone YOU know! 🏆✨

The 2026 Yarra Community Awards nominations are NOW OPEN and we want to see young people from our community get the recognition they deserve 🥰

Whether it’s someone who’s been showing up for others, leading something incredible, or just quietly making Yarra a better place — nominate them! 🙌

🗓️ Nominations close Sunday 23 August

🔗 Check the link in bio to nominate today!

14/07/2026

18/06/2026

☆☆☆ AIRS Exhibition opening tomorrow 19th July @ ACU Gallery ☆☆☆

Featuring works from artists in residence
Aisyah Kirana Aisyah Kirana
F3ral 𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵
Mas Mas :)
2 Halves as A Whole 2 HALVES AS A WHOLE

Come 2 HALVES AS A WHOLE the opening night of our 2025/2026 Artists In Residence(AIR) exhibition to see the culmination of and celebrate our AIRS work during their residency.

There will be a performance by Aisyah Kirana at 6:30pm and music from DJ Skills participant LibertyB throughout the night. Read on for some words from the artists about the exhibition:

Live, LOL, Love is a critical exhibition that explores how resident artists from the Yarra Youth Centre - Aisyah Kirana, F3ral, Mas, and duo 2 Halves as A Whole - negotiate sincerity and performance within the white cube. Featuring a distillation of the artists' year-long practice and practise, each navigates what it costs to make art meaningfully (and playfully!) in subversion of institutional expectations.

A multidisciplinary body of work-including sculpture, assemblage, screen, and performance-reveals the friction between emotional labour and commercial demand, professional artifice and truth-telling, and the isolating pressures of artistic production versus the intrinsic desire for community.

Though their material approaches diverge, each artist cultivates an intimate rapport with viewers, appealing to personhood through aesthetic nostalgia and thematic play. Their works attend vulnerable, universal human experiences-sleeping, coming-of-age, performing the role of "adult," of "accomplished," and of "artist."
What emerges is a shared language of tenderness and self-reflection, giving the exhibition's title a wry openness that holds both earnestness and irony at once.
Live, LOL, Love traces the idiosyncratic, humorous, and heartfelt terrain where contemporary art is lived.

Opening Night: Friday June 19, 6PM - 8PM
Exhibition runs: 19 June - 5 July
Where: ACU Melbourne Gallery,
26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, 3065
All welcome

29/05/2026

Missed Court? Got a Warrant? Come to the Re-Bail Clinic next Tuesday 2nd June, 12pm-1pm at the Yarra Youth Centre ⭐

If you’ve missed a court date and have a warrant, you may be able to get re-bailed and receive a new court date - without needing to go to the police station.

❗Please contact Annabel via email before attending or message us for her number, as this helps us make sure you can get re-bailed on the day

Take control of your situation!

For young people aged 12 - 25 who live, work, study or have a strong connection to the City of Yarra

22/05/2026

A little late, but definitely worth sharing 💛

Earlier this year during Ramadan, we were proud to host our Iftar event at Yarra Youth Services, bringing together community members, young people, families, and friends to break fast together in a warm and welcoming space.

With over 80+ people coming through across the evening, it was a beautiful celebration of connection, culture, and community. A huge thank you to Marian for providing the incredible food that brought everyone together around the table 🥘🥄🥙

We’re grateful to everyone who attended and helped make the night so special. Eid Mubarak to all who celebrated 🌙✨

EidMubarak

04/05/2026

Missed Court? Got a Warrant? Come to the Re-Bail Clinic TOMORROW, Tuesday 5th May, 12pm-1pm at the Yarra Youth Centre ⭐

If you’ve missed a court date and have a warrant, you may be able to get re-bailed and receive a new court date - without needing to go to the police station.

❗Please contact Naima via phone on 0458 048 481 before attending, as this helps us make sure you can get re-bailed on the day

Take control of your situation!

For young people aged 12 - 25 who live, work, study or have a strong connection to the City of Yarra

22/04/2026

Fashion club is back this term! Every Wednesday from 4-6pm, come through to the youth centre for some FREE sessions on…

✂️ How to create a garment and pattern making
🧵 Help in using a sewing machine
🪡 Hand sewing, embellishing or general fashion upcylcing advice!
👚 Or just come and experiment!

Message us if you have any questions! For young people aged 12-25 ☺️