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, digital mentoring, leadership, and training for young people.

​​Our centre is based in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, which houses our helpline and office.

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

Contact Us

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 personal development and peer counselling skills training for young people. These are interactive skill based workshops. We also give school talks and workshops.

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.