How it works?

At Youthline Southland we offer an excellent training programme that gets you ready for volunteering on our national Youth Helpline.

Personal Development 
The opportunity to find out more about yourself, build better communication and relationship skills, and to learn about working in a team; managing differences and conflict, building self-esteem, confidence, goal setting and trust.

Participants who complete this successfully can then progress through to Basic Youth and Community Counselling. 

Basic Youth and Community Counselling 

• An awareness of issues that face youth which include; grief, anger and aggression, depression and suicidality.
• Skills to practice the theories of Person-centred and Strength-based counselling
• Skills for counselling on phones, text messages and emails within the Youthline support context.

Participants are required to attend at least 80% of training sessions. Progression to the following opportunity is dependent on the commitment and appropriate skills demonstrated from the opportunity before.

We do at least a couple of intakes per year, so if this one doesn't suit you, get in touch.