On Wednesday October 4 2017, the Youth Educating Peers (YEP) Project and the Youth Affairs Council of WA (YACWA) is holding the first-ever WA youth sexual health sector summit. The 2017 YACWA/YEP 'Every Body, Every Mind' Summit: a WA Youth Sexual Health Sector Event will bring together young people, youth services and the sexual health sector to explore, share and increase understanding and capacity to support WA young people around their youth sexual health needs in an ever-increasing, complex environment.
2017 YACWA/YEP ‘Every Body, Every Mind’ Summit: a WA Youth Sexual Health Sector Event
This 1-day event will include:
- a variety workshop presentations from key youth sexual health and blood borne virus (SHBBV) programs throughout WA during the ‘Knowledge Transfer Sessions’
- hear directly from young people about their perspectives on current youth SHBBV issues during the ‘Youth Panel Session’
- participate in a ‘Think Tank Session’ by providing your input into 1 of 3 key youth SHBBV issues relevant to the WA context, with the aim of using the information obtained during this activity as a means to influence systemic change in this space, and
- ample opportunities for networking!