""A carer would like to express her thanks to everyone at Riverlink for organising activities for her son to attend. The Carer stated that since moving in to the Club Teen her son's social skills, communication, etc have all improved. The Carer stated that her son loves attending Club Teen outings, especially those associated with eating.""

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mentoring and youth leadership

Leap Up! (Learn- Enable-Apply-Practice) is a youth leadership program for young people (14-18 years) who have a disability.

Participants in the Leap Up program will develop leadership and social skills to enhance their resilience and capacity at a key transition point in their lives - preparing to leave school and transition into the workforce or further education.  

The program takes into account the developmental characteristics of this age group and is experiential in delivery.

This innovative program also has a strong mentoring focus and builds on the existing evidence that young people at this stage of their lives, who receive sound and positive role modelling achieve greater successes and are more effective participants in their communities. LEAP UP! is based on a collaborative model of service provision and builds on the strengths of young people.

The objective of this program is for participants to build:

• Competence (academic, social and vocational)
• Confidence (positive self-concept)
• Connections (to community, family and peers)
• Character (positive values, integrity and moral values)
• Contributions (active, meaningful role in decision making and facilitating change).

Participants will:

• Develop leadership skills and abilities that enhance the self-worth of young people with disabilities from culturally diverse communities that will enable them to more fully participate in the community
• enhance successful  transition from school through the acquisition of a broad range of self-reflective learning skills and knowledge about their strengths
• improve social skills and develop their personal capacity so that they may contribute more effectively in their own communities
• experience networking and peer-to-peer opportunities with current young community leaders
• gain knowledge, attributes and communication skills to be more independent, engaged and in control of their own decision-making.

Riverlink received funding from the Australian Government under the HACC program.
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