KOKODA YOUTH FOUNDATION
Our longest running (and Flagship) program, the KCYP is a long-term program delivered over 9 months with multiple
groups of 12 participants and 4 adult mentors (both volunteer and professional).
The KCYP operates in Gold Coast and Brisbane with each branch conducting their own training program but coming together for the overseas peak experience.
Selection preference is given to participants from disadvantaged backgrounds and circumstances, as well as students with diagnosed mental health issues, development or physical disabilities. There is a purposeful mix of high functioning participants in the three domains of physical, mental and behavioural development. The programs success hinges on the interaction of all participants from different backgrounds working together to help and learn from one another.
This extended time frame allows for opportunities to learn, make choices, fail and flourish. Strict attendance and disciplinary standards, physical conditioning and social service leads to discovery and fulfilment.
Targeted outcomes include: personal resilience and self-confidence, greater social integration & functioning, broad community investment & empathy development. Including an ambitious but rational sense of future purpose and direction. KCYP has a proud history of achieving outstanding results with both complex needs adolescents and higher functioning participants. Transforming the lives of hundreds of 14 to 16 year olds each year, this has an inevitable impact on families, schools and entire communities. Embedded is the philosophy that choices matter – and the effort you apply to each endeavour has a direct correlation to your success and fulfilment in life.
