Recent events in Flaxmere highlight the need to support our youth even more so these days, not just in Flaxmere but across our bay and beyond.
For many of our youth the world is their oyster. The quarter-life crisis is becoming more prolific as youngsters wade through the options available
to them, attempting to decipher which avenue to take. This is an exciting predicament to have, and perhaps one a generation or two ago didn't have. Nonetheless this is an area our youth can benefit from guided assistance in.
We tend to take for granted the notion that youth automatically know how to navigate the transition from school to beyond when, with the increasing array of avenues and the requirements necessary for each, this whole arena is more complex these days.
Take me for instance, despite a good environment I fumbled my way to uni. I only ended up there as a direct result of a friend taking me by the hand and literally showing me the way. She offered me a room and helped me fill out forms, choose courses, seek financial support and to pull it all together. We have schools, career services and many other organisations doing good work on these fronts but so long as there are still individuals falling through the cracks and floundering, more can be done.
Despite the rapidly increasing pace of the world and options available, many of our youth struggle to enter or even fathom these spaces as they lack simple tools, support, environments and therefore the confidence to propel them into these opportunities.
