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At City of Salisbury's Roar Youth Summit, SAYF facilitated a workshop on health equity, exploring young people's access to fair health outcomes across South Australia. Participants shared insights on how limited discussions about equity in schools affect trust and wellbeing. SAYF synthesised these perspectives and shared them directly with the City of Salisbury to inform youth-driven solutions and policy action.

At the Commissioner for Children and Young People x Youth Affairs Council SA Youth Impact Summit, SAYF hosted a stall and contributed to a powerful panel discussion. Our founder, Amber, joined young changemakers from across the state to exchange ideas, collaborate with sector leaders, and celebrate the power of youth-led advocacy in South Australia.

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

3 SAYF members spent a day across Parndana and Kingscote campuses speaking to over 400 young people in Years 7 to 12 about youth advocacy, resilience, and leadership. The visit marked the beginning of something significant for Kangaroo Island, building the connections and foundations for what is now the established Kangaroo Island Youth Movement.

Amber was invited to speak at the South Australian Business Chamber's International Women's Day Business Luncheon, held in partnership with the Australia Day Council of South Australia. She shared the stage with keynote speaker Professor Leah Bromfield, 2025 Australian of the Year for South Australia, and contributed to panel discussions on women in leadership. Amber spoke about SAYF's work in spaces of gender equality including coercive control, period justice, and gender eq

Amber delivered a keynote at the Youth Leadership Academy Australia's City One National Tour stop in Adelaide, speaking to over 1,000 students from 90 schools across two days, with some travelling from as far as Port Lincoln and Mildura. The event was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre and brought together primary and secondary school students around themes of leadership, growth, and connection. Amber shared her story and her work with the South Australian Youth Forum, ma

SAYF hosted a stall at the City of Onkaparinga's Eco Collective, sharing the organisation's work and impact with community members from across the region. It was a genuine opportunity to connect local sustainability action with youth voice and civic participation, and to show what SAYF looks like in action outside of a formal workshop setting.

Since January 2025, Amber has been working as a contracted Co-Lead to establish the Youth Voice Initiative at the Specialised Assistance School for Youth. Working alongside passionate students and dedicated staff, this role involves building a student-led committee from the ground up, one that identifies concerns, highlights gaps, and explores opportunities for improvement within the school. This is Stream Two in practice: an individual contract, brokered through Amber's exis

SAYF's 14 to 18 branch members serve on the Oversight Committee for Flinders University's Trauma Aware School Village project, a national multi-year research initiative exploring how trauma-informed approaches can be embedded across entire school communities rather than applied only at the individual student level. The project operates across multiple sites and brings together researchers, educators, school leaders, and community members to co-design and evaluate a whole-of-s

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

Amber was invited to speak as a young voice at the Technology and Wellbeing Roundtable, co-hosted by the Telstra Foundation and ReachOut Australia. The event brought together cross-sector leaders to explore the role that data, policy, and youth participation play in creating a better digital world for children and young people. Alongside keynote speaker Professor Sonia Livingstone from the Digital Futures for Children Centre, Amber represented the South Australian Youth Forum

Since January 2023, Amber has served as a Youth Advisor on the SA Power Networks Vulnerable Consumers Advisory Group, representing the needs and perspectives of young people within the group. In this ongoing role she collaborates with senior members and fellow board representatives to advocate for the inclusion of youth voices in energy policy and decision-making. The group reviews community feedback, shapes policy recommendations, and adjusts strategies to ensure inclusivity

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

From January 2022 to December 2023, Amber served as Youth Representative on the SA Power Networks Community Advisory Board, playing a central role in advocating for the needs and concerns of young people within the community. Her responsibilities included engaging with diverse stakeholders to ensure that the voices of vulnerable consumers were represented in decision-making processes, particularly during the Regulatory Reset for 2025 to 2030. This role demonstrated early that