❓ Mr. Krsticevic asks about the Western Australian Youth Awards. The Minister for Youth details the event, its finalists, and changes made to improve youth participation and the award's impact, including a $10,000 grant for the winner to travel as a Youth Ambassador.
AnsweredQoN 971Legislative Assembly
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WESTERN AUSTRALIAN YOUTH AWARDS
971. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the Minister for
Youth:
I understand that the Western
Australian Youth Awards are being held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition
Centre tonight. Can the minister advise the house about this important event
and tell us about the finalists in the various award categories?
971. Mr A. KRSTICEVIC to the Minister for
Youth:
I understand that the Western
Australian Youth Awards are being held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition
Centre tonight. Can the minister advise the house about this important event
and tell us about the finalists in the various award categories?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Carine for
his question.
The member is right. For the benefit
of members, I stood in this house in April and spoke about Youth Week. When I
first came into this job last year, having the Youth Awards at the end of Youth
Week in April was a great event to end the week. However, in reality because
the nominations were open during January and February there was a very low
turnout in youths nominating themselves because of school holidays and the
university break; so this year we have pushed the date back. We have done some
fantastic work with the Youth Affairs
Council of WA . Almost 100 nominations came in and 26 finalists will be
there tonight for the Youth of the Year award. There are some amazing
individuals from all over the state. Among some of the finalists is a young
mother, a filmmaker and a producer. We also have a young girl named Jenna Woods
from Gosnells who is an inspirational example of how young people can turn
their life around. She became pregnant at 16 years of age and, despite having
little formal education or career, she went on to enrol in building programs at
university and is at a turning point in her life now. She recently represented
Western Australia at the National Indigenous Youth Parliament and will soon
become chair of the Save the Children Youth Leadership Roundtable. It is one of
the amazing things that youths are doing in our community.
Also this year YACWA has worked very closely with the
department. In years gone by, the Youth of the Year award was a certificate and
a free airline ticket from a sponsor to anywhere in the world. That is also in
line this year, but also with the hard work of the department we will allocate
$10 000 for the winner to access for travel to anywhere in the state as
Ambassador for Youth in Western Australia so that they can get out to regional
areas and speak about what being the Ambassador for Youth is all about.
I look forward to tonight's presentations. As I said,
there are 26 finalists and I look forward to announcing the award for Youth of
the Year.
his question.
The member is right. For the benefit
of members, I stood in this house in April and spoke about Youth Week. When I
first came into this job last year, having the Youth Awards at the end of Youth
Week in April was a great event to end the week. However, in reality because
the nominations were open during January and February there was a very low
turnout in youths nominating themselves because of school holidays and the
university break; so this year we have pushed the date back. We have done some
fantastic work with the Youth Affairs
Council of WA . Almost 100 nominations came in and 26 finalists will be
there tonight for the Youth of the Year award. There are some amazing
individuals from all over the state. Among some of the finalists is a young
mother, a filmmaker and a producer. We also have a young girl named Jenna Woods
from Gosnells who is an inspirational example of how young people can turn
their life around. She became pregnant at 16 years of age and, despite having
little formal education or career, she went on to enrol in building programs at
university and is at a turning point in her life now. She recently represented
Western Australia at the National Indigenous Youth Parliament and will soon
become chair of the Save the Children Youth Leadership Roundtable. It is one of
the amazing things that youths are doing in our community.
Also this year YACWA has worked very closely with the
department. In years gone by, the Youth of the Year award was a certificate and
a free airline ticket from a sponsor to anywhere in the world. That is also in
line this year, but also with the hard work of the department we will allocate
$10 000 for the winner to access for travel to anywhere in the state as
Ambassador for Youth in Western Australia so that they can get out to regional
areas and speak about what being the Ambassador for Youth is all about.
I look forward to tonight's presentations. As I said,
there are 26 finalists and I look forward to announcing the award for Youth of
the Year.
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