If you’ve landed on this page, you might be a young person looking for support.
You might be a parent or carer trying to find help for someone you love.
You might be a referral partner, a donor, or simply someone who wants to understand what we do and why.
No matter what stage of your journey brought you here, welcome. This post is for you.
Youth Futures is a Western Australian not-for-profit organisation that has been supporting young people for over 40 years. We work alongside young people aged 12 to 25 who are facing some of life’s toughest challenges, including homelessness, disengagement from education, family breakdown, mental health difficulties, financial hardship, and more.
We are not a single service. We are a whole ecosystem of support, built around one belief: that every young person deserves the chance to build a brighter future, no matter what they are facing right now.
Most organisations deliver services in either education or homelessness. We support both. And that is not an accident.
We know from four decades of experience that homelessness and educational disengagement rarely arrive separately. A young person who loses stable housing often loses their school enrolment too. A student carrying the weight of an unsafe home situation struggles to concentrate in class. These challenges are deeply connected, and they need to be addressed together.
That is why at Youth Futures, a young person in our crisis accommodation can be connected to education support. A student at Youth Futures Community School who is experiencing housing instability has access to youth workers and social workers who can help stabilise their living situation so they can keep learning.
One organisation. Two of the most pressing challenges facing young people in WA. Addressed together, with the same team, the same values, and the same commitment to every young person who walks through our door.
Youth Futures Community School is a CaRE school (Curriculum and Reengagement in Education) registered under the WA Department of Education. We operate across multiple campuses including Midland, Clarkson, Bayswater, Mirrabooka, and Albany, with a Middle School program at some sites for younger students.
Our school is built for young people who haven’t found their fit in mainstream education. Smaller classes, flexible timetables, trauma-informed teaching using the Berry Street Education Model, and a multidisciplinary team of teachers, trainers, education assistants, youth workers, social workers, and school administrators all working together around each student.
In 2025, our students completed 230 full qualifications and 2,178 units of competency. Behind every one of those numbers is a young person who showed up, worked hard, and backed themselves.
For Year 11 and 12 students, our FutureReady program builds practical, real-world skills alongside nationally recognised qualifications including White Card, First Aid, and RSA, plus TAFE visits, trade taster days, and career expos. Every student has an Individual Transition Plan built around their own goals, reviewed regularly as those goals evolve.
In Albany, we also operate Comet Connect, a mobile outreach education service that meets young people aged 14 to 19 in their own community spaces, from libraries to their own homes, building trust and confidence before taking that step back into structured learning.
We provide crisis accommodation, transitional housing, outreach, and emergency relief for young people aged 15 to 25 across Perth who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Djinda and TINOCA provide 24/7 short-term crisis accommodation for young people aged 15 to 19.
TAP North and TAP South offer transitional housing for young people aged 16 to 21. Brentwood provides supported, in-reach accommodation for young people aged 16 to 25, including those who have been rough sleeping. The Nest supports young parents experiencing homelessness or unsafe living situations.
Our Emergency Relief program provides immediate, practical support to young people in financial crisis, food, hygiene items, clothing, medication, transport vouchers, and referrals to other services, quickly and without judgement.
Across all of these programs, our approach is the same: trauma-informed, person-centred, and relationship-based. We ask not “why is this young person struggling?” but “what has this young person been through, and how can we best support them.
Alongside education and homelessness, we deliver a range of additional programs including the Settlement Engagement and Transition Support (SETS) program, which supports young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to settle, belong, and build a future in WA.
Our Support and Wellbeing team provides psychological services, wellbeing support, and connections to specialist services for young people across all our programs.
We believe that every young person is capable of building a brighter future.
We recognise that behaviour is a form of communication, and that what may appear difficult is often a response to unmet needs or overwhelming circumstances.
We believe that healing and growth happen through relationships built on trust, consistency, and respect.
As our CEO Michelle Jenkins puts it: “Behind every statistic is a person. Behind every program is a team of people who chose, day after day, to show up.”
That is Youth Futures. Over forty one years of showing up.
If you are a young person who needs support, or someone trying to find help for a young person you care about, please reach out.
You don’t need to have everything figured out before you call.
