SERVICE MESSAGE - IYC Young People, Families, Staff, Volunteers, Board, Student Placements and Community would like to give a big warm thank you to all who support IYC, not close the centre doors. It's with a heavy heart that IYC informs you that IYC closed its centre doors on March 1st 2024 at the location in Bundoora due to not being refunded by the government, IYC acknowledges and is grateful for the Federal Government grant to grow IYC with the centre in 2022. IYC campaigned to all tiers of government, did a fundraiser with events, went to media, had a petition, tried auspices and unfortunately could not raise enough funds to keep the centre operational. IYC will not close as a charity/service organisation and reflect to provide NDIS services, consulting work, information and referral, and program work that will be done on a smaller scale until IYC grows again and can do more and run a centre again. As the motto goes at IYC
"Believe and Create"
PREVENT WITH HEART
ELGIBILITY
Young boys and men aged from 12-25 are eligible for the program.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the Prevent with Heart program?
The Prevent with Heart program is an initiative teamed up with Proactive Self Defence for young men to explore concepts of healthy masculinity through the practice of learning martial arts. Participants get to have a space in the program to develop a sense of worth and an understanding how gender-based violence negatively affects families, intimate relationships, and in the wider community.
The young men who participate in Prevent With Heart will get the chance to learn about:
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What are their best personal strengths
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Emotional literacy
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Collaboration skills
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How to be an ally to the girls and women around them
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Physical Health
Why the Prevent with Heart program is needed?
IYC recognises disadvantaged boys and young men need spaces to develop communication and social skills that involve non-violence in their personal lives and within their communities. With domestic violence being a growing problem in Australia, the Prevent with Heart program aims to help young boys and men to challenge negative and harmful habits associated with masculinity to develop a sense of masculinity for themselves that is focused on community awareness, compassion, and self-knowledge.
The program is also inclusive to boys and young men from the LGBTIQ+ community, ATSI communities, and CALD backgrounds. The program will help encourage these participants with a culturally sensitive and anti-homophobic/transphobic approach to develop the non-violence interpersonal skills within the program.