YSAS Diary project

YSAS, the Youth Support and Advocacy Service, were keen to develop an engaging diary for young people that would help them keep track of appointments, provide useful information and resources, and encourage and motivate positive change. RMIT youth work student Rachel Humphrys stepped in to help and took up the YSAS Diary project as her field education project. Rachel spoke to many young people to get their ideas, collected and collated information in response to young people’s suggestions, and helped put together a template diary to be edited and approved by senior management and then sent to the printers for mass production. The diary will include self-help strategies that young people who use YSAS service can use to help minimise harms associated with substance use.