South Australia’s Youth Action Plan 2023-2026

We are inviting you to tell us your ideas about the key issues affecting young people in South Australia.

What's being decided?

We are developing South Australia’s Youth Action Plan 2023-2026 to enhance fair and equitable access to opportunities, resources and supports for young people.

We invite all young people, stakeholder organisations and anyone with an interest in young people to tell us their ideas about the key issues affecting young people in South Australia.

Background

Young people hold the key to creating a better future and deserve to be taken seriously, listened to and included in important conversations.

Young people demonstrate many strengths – including creativity, resilience, empathy, independence, collaboration and innovation. However, there are also areas where we need to take action to ensure that all young people can flourish. We are proposing that SA’s Youth Action Plan has five key areas for action:

1. Physical Health, and Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
2. Safety and Justice
3. Education and Employment
4. Connections and Access to Resources
5. Citizenship and Participation

Want to know more?

• Read the Consultation Paper, this 2-page summary or this poster.
• An Easy Read version of the Consultation paper is also available.

Get involved

• Respond to the online survey.
• Tell us only about specific areas you are interested in, such as:
  • health,
  • safety and justice,
  • education and employment,
  • connections, and/or
  • youth participation.
• Complete an online quick poll below.
• Leave us a comment in our Guestbook
• Write a submission using the questions in the Consultation Paper as a guide and sending it to youthactionplan@sa.gov.au or to SA Youth Action Plan, GPO Box 292, Adelaide SA 5001.
• Email any feedback you may have to youthactionplan@sa.gov.au, or send it to SA Youth Action Plan, GPO Box 292, Adelaide SA 5001
• Participate in a public consultation event – details will be available on this website.

What are the next steps?

We will collate, analyse and use your feedback to develop the final plan, which will then be submitted to the Minister for Human Services for adoption.