Stream One

In collaboration with Flinders University, SAYF's 14 to 18 branch was engaged to provide structured feedback on a new app adaptation of Metacognitive Training for Eating Disorders. Members were given the app to work through and facilitated an internal session exploring what worked, what did not land, what felt inaccessible, and what would genuinely reach young people experiencing eating disorders. This is youth voice built into the design of a health tool, not bolted on after

The City of Onkaparinga engaged SAYF to help them understand how to genuinely reach young people when developing their life skills workshop program. Rather than the council guessing what young people want to learn, they came to SAYF. We received their questions, facilitated an internal session with members to explore what life skills young people actually want and need, how they want to access them, and what would make them show up. A written summary of insights and recommend

SA Health approached SAYF to gather young people's perspectives on a series of questions related to their public health planning work. SAYF received the brief, designed the facilitation, and ran the session internally with members across relevant focus areas including mental health, domestic violence education, and community safety. A structured report was delivered back to SA Health capturing key themes, direct member perspectives, and priority recommendations. This engageme

The Cancer Council engaged SAYF's 18 to 24 branch to provide feedback on their HPV campaign and explore how it could be extended to better reach young people. SAYF received a set of questions from the Cancer Council, designed a facilitated workshop around them, and ran the session internally with members. The outputs were synthesised into a detailed written summary covering what resonated, what missed the mark, and clear recommendations for how the campaign could be strengthe

A group of SAYF members were invited to join Natasha Stott Despoja, Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Family, Sexual and Domestic Violence, for a one-off workshop session facilitated alongside the Commissioner for Children and Young People, Helen Connolly. Members came to the table to share their perspectives, stories, and views on family, sexual, and domestic violence as young people with lived experience of the issues the Royal Commission was examining. It was not

Over three years, SAYF has been embedded as co-designers, peer researchers, data analysers, and contributors to the written outputs of Flinders University's longitudinal study on loneliness among young people. This is not a one-off consultation. SAYF members have been present across every stage of the research, from shaping the questions to leading focus groups to contributing to the analysis that became our first peer-reviewed academic paper on the affective economics of lon