Reset Opportunities for Youth Works (ROYW)

Reaching kids early.

The Rest Opportunities for Youth Works (ROYW) is a positive youth development initiative helping young people aged 10-18 years old build brighter futures. We combined educational workshops and hands-on learning with exciting adventure-based activities that build confidence, life skills, and resilience through teamwork challenges, creative workshops, and connecting young people with inspiring mentors.

Community Connect

Coordinating support across Tasmania

Tasmania invests significantly in services for young people, yet many with emerging and complex needs continue to disengage from education and escalate into crisis. The core issue is not service availability, but fragmentation. There is no single designated role responsible for coordinating support across education, family, and community systems.

Community Connect addresses this system failure by providing the missing coordination infrastructure. Led by PCYC Tasmania in its role as the statewide peak body, Community Connect is not a new program, but a system of support that aligns schools, families, and specialist providers around a shared plan, enabling earlier intervention, lawful information sharing, and accountability for follow through.

This coordination function is distinct from local PCYC clubs, which operate as community based recreation and engagement hubs. Community Connect is seeking funding to pilot Community Connect in southern Tasmania as a formal coordination mechanism enabling earlier, lawful, and accountable multi agency support for young people with emerging and complex needs.

PCYC Tasmania is currently seeking funding to enable us to pilot Community Connect in southern Tasmania. Community Connect will result in strengthening coordination that unlocks the full value of existing investments, prevents avoidable escalation, and delivers better outcomes at significantly lower cost than crisis or statutory responses.

PCYC Infrastructure

PCYC Tasmania’s infrastructure strategy is built around moving away from a dependency on club-owned or club-managed facilities and instead positioning PCYC as an operator or tenant of government or shared community assets (e.g. youth hubs, sport and recreation centres and schools outside of school hours centres. The Hub in Mowbray, Launceston, managed by PCYC North, is a benchmark for future infrastructure in each region of Tasmania (but not necessarily at the same scale).

PCYC Tasmania infrastructure priorities are to:

• Align PCYC brand presence to needs and access, e.g. Glenorchy City, Kingborough, Sorell, Devonport City, Central Coast and other underserviced areas of need.
• Shift from “premises-centric” thinking to “program-and-outcomes-centric” planning.
• Use time-bound leases, shared-use agreements and school partnerships to retain flexibility as needs evolve.