We wouldn’t be this awesome without our volunteers.
Here at ReachOut, we have a vision of better mental health and wellbeing for all young people. We’re committed to working with young people to achieve this vision, working alongside young people to design and deliver our services.
Volunteers aged 14–25 can help us support the mental health and wellbeing of young people across Australia while gaining useful skills and experience. From sharing your lived experience at corporate partner events, contributing to the content we produce, there are lots of different ways to get involved!
Find out how to volunteer with ReachOut below!
Youth Ambassador Program
ReachOut’s Youth Ambassadors (YA) share their personal stories about overcoming challenges, so that young people feel less alone. They share their stories in the media, on social media platforms, through co-creating our website content and speaking at corporate partner events.
Our YA’s raise awareness of the struggles that young people face - such as bullying, concerns about the future, exam stress, toxic friendships and relationship issues. By sharing their stories, our YA’s help to break down the stigma surrounding mental health so that more young people feel empowered to reach out when they need to.
What’s involved?
- Feeling comfortable sharing your personal stories of overcoming challenges and tough times with the help of ReachOut’s services
- Representing ReachOut and advocating for mental health awareness in your community
- Take part in fundraising activities and create your own events on behalf of ReachOut
- Speaking at supporter events to raise mental health awareness and share your own journey
- Participate in media interviews as case studies
- Contribute to ReachOut content and online reviews
- Meet awesome, like-minded young people while also having the best fun!
What’s required?
- Be aged between 18-25 and live in Australia
- Be passionate about sharing your lived experience
- Have experience with, or be open to learning public speaking and storytelling skills
- Attend an induction workshop
- A one-year commitment to the position.
Youth Ambassadors can also apply to become Youth Advocates, who ensure that young people’s voices are represented in government policy and decision making processes that impact their mental health and wellbeing.
We will update this page when we next open recruitment for the Youth Ambassador program.
Content Team volunteers
The Content Team volunteers include the ReachOut Content Advisory (ROCA) & the Parents and Carers Advisory Group (PCAG). Both these groups provide important input into the content we create for our users, whether that’s on site or social. They give us their thoughts on issues that are impacting them and use their own experience to help us understand what users want.
What’s involved?
- Assist ReachOut at community events
- Help promote ReachOut’s content online
- Complete occasional surveys
- Get involved in a ReachOut fundraiser.
What’s required?
We usually send reviews and surveys out each month and members of the groups can opt in to complete them. And we always give a thank you gift voucher afterwards!
ROCA is for young people aged 14-25, and PCAG is for parents and carers of 12-18 year olds.
No specific experience needed, just an interest in youth mental health, reviewing content and sharing your valuable insights. We recruit on a regular basis, so if you’re keen make sure to watch out on our social channels for the call out!
Casual volunteer opportunities
Spread the word online! We have opportunities for people to support us by sharing our content via social media. You can also assist by participating in surveys or getting involved in a fundraiser.
What’s involved?
- Help promote ReachOut’s content online
- Complete occasional surveys
- Get involved in a ReachOut fundraiser.
What’s required?
There’s no special training or minimum level of commitment. You can help out when you have time, or step back when life gets too busy.
Work experience and student placements
Unfortunately, we are not able to take on work experience students right now. We hope to be back supporting high school, university and TAFE students again soon.
