Youthline Central South Island - youth supporting youth

Ara Taiohi CSI - ngā Taiohi tautako i ngā taiohi

Youthline Central South Island supports taiohi across the top half of Te Wai Pounamu, from Waitaki to Tasman Districts.

We support young people’s development. We provide a 24/7 helpline, peer support for schools, online mentoring, and training for young people.

​​We are based in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, which houses our helpline and office. We provide support to the Tasman-Nelson, Marlborough, and Timaru Youthlines.

​We are a volunteer led charity, with a small support staff. We encourage young people to be involved and lead in our communities.

We have networked our helpline service with the other independent Youthlines around the country. This increases our collective impact and provides a national service. 

Contact Us

View our Annual Report

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What we do

​We provide a helpline, online mentoring, and training for young people. We develop our young volunteers into skilled community contributors.

Helpline / Āwhina

The helpline is for anytime you want to talk. It's networked with the other independent Youthline centres so we can go 24/7. You can get in touch by: 

Phone

Text

Web Chat

Email

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Online Mentoring / Kaitautoko

​Get yourself an ally. Our mentors provide one-to-one positive support with a focus on the future. All done over your mobile phone. 

Mentoring

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School & Training Programmes / Whakangungu

​We provide mental health first aid and peer counselling skills training for young people. These are interactive skill based workshops. We give talks for your kura or roopu.
We can run a Peer Support programme for your school. 

Programmes

Schools

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Volunteering & Leadership / Tūao

We are a volunteer led organisation. Join us and help support our young people. You can volunteer for helpline, mentoring, training, or events.

We up-skill volunteers to lead, and create a community that cares.

Volunteer

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Supporters / Ngā Kaitautoko

As a charity and champion for young people, we have many valued supporters.
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We welcome and appreciate individuals and groups running fundraising events for supporting our young people. 

Contribute

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Social Media Team / Pae Pāpāho Pāpori

Our Instagram and Facebook pages provide posts about how to make it through the day, and even how to make it a little better. 

The posts are sourced by a team of young people hoping to create an online community that cares about each other.