Youth Peer Volunteer applications are open!

Are you aged 18–30? Have you experienced mental health challenges at any point between the ages of 12 and 25?

Applications for the headspace Bentleigh Youth Peer Volunteer roles are now open!

Would you like to ...

• Reflect on your lived/living experience of mental health challenges as a young person during ages 12-25 years 
• Learn how to share your experiences in a way that supports other young people to feel hope, connection, trust and empowered in their journey
• Volunteer in a professional capacity with the headspace team for one day a week for the next 12 months or longer
• Attend Youth Peer Support training, supervision and professional development opportunities with lived/living experience professionals.

If you've answered yes, you could be a Youth Peer Volunteer!

At headspace Early Psychosis, Youth Peer Volunteers are supervised to learn to connect with other young people who may be experiencing mental health challenges or struggles in their daily lives.

Youth Peer Volunteers are offered training and support to learn to reflect on their experiences and be informed by the perspective of their own lived and living experience whilst volunteering with young people. They learn to hold hope by purposefully sharing their story with young people going through a tough time and role modelling positive help seeking behaviour.

Sounds like you? Find out more about the opportunity here.