About us
Youth Action is the peak organisation representing young people and youth services in NSW. Youth Action works towards a society where all young people in NSW are supported, engaged, valued, and have their rights realised.
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Western Sydney Youth Services Network
Join the email network for youth services in Greater Western Sydney. Keep up to date about opportunities for young people and connect to other services in the area.
Health Literacy Young Person Network
Join our Health Literacy Young Person Network. Get involved with our regular consultations and conversations about health literacy.
NSW Youth Network
Connect with other young people. Join our regular youth sessions, this is an opportunity to learn from others and share your ideas on what matter to you.
Become a member
With a strong and engaged membership network, we have the collective power to advocate for better outcomes for young people and the services that support them.
Young person member
Young people 12 – 25 years of age receive free membership.
Individual member
Individual membership is for people 26 or older.
Organisational member
Organisational membership fees are based on a sliding scale.
Our Advocacy
Youth Action advocates on behalf of young people and the youth sector. Our work is grounded in the voices and lived experiences of the young people and the services who support them.
Our recent submissions and reports
Media Release: Youth Action welcomes NSW Budget and a chance to make it work for young people
The Budget provides important investment across mental health, education, housing, cost of living relief and responses to domestic and family violence, and Youth Action says there is now a clear opportunity to make those investments work better for young people.
“These investments are important and will make a meaningful difference for many people across NSW,” said Lauren Stracey, CEO of Youth Action.
“But there is still very little in this Budget built around how young people get help.
“Young people do not always find their way to support the way adults do. Many are juggling school, work, housing and health all at once, and they need help that is easy to see and easy to reach. Without that, help can pass them by.”
Media Release: Disability support cliff at age nine risks leaving thousands without help
Thousands of young people with disability in NSW risk facing a significant support gap beyond age eight, after the Government rejected bipartisan recommendations to extend foundational supports to older children and adolescents.
The NSW Parliament’s Select Committee on Foundational and Disability Supports Available for Children and Young People examined gaps in support facing young people with disability, hearing evidence from young people, families and more than a hundred services. It made 17 recommendations.
Youth Hubs: The Full Picture (2026)
Last year we launched the From Fragmented to Coordinated Policy Paper about Youth Hubs. The response from MPs was clear: there’s real momentum for investing in young people, youth workers and youth services.
We’re building on that with the Youth Hubs Illustration: a visual tool that captures the flexible, place-based, relational work happening in hubs every day.
Why an illustration? Because some things are hard to explain with policy language alone. Connection. Belonging. The slow trust built between a youth worker and a young person. This makes those intangible outcomes visible.