Focus Areas

HYPA's services are aligned to four primary priorities in a young person's life:
Home, Wellbeing, Learning and Working

Working

Assisting young people to get meaningful work.

Therapeutic Support Team

The Therapeutic Support Team (TST) is a team of clinical practitioners (Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists and Occupational Therapists) which assesses individual job seekers and provides ongoing therapeutic counselling as required to assist them in overcoming non-vocational barriers to employment.  Job seekers are referred to the service by a Job Services Provider.

TST’s suite of professional development services for staff working with disadvantaged people includes workshops on suicide awareness, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Autism Spectrum Disorders and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). 

Enquiries about TST’s range of services can be directed to 08 8405 8540

Launch

A demonstration pilot project, Launch works with job seekers in the Elizabeth region in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, providing an enhanced level of service delivery for job seekers under 25 who have multiple barriers to employment.  Launch provides an intensive clinical case management service, working collaboratively with a range of other services in the region to deliver better outcomes for job seekers.  Launch participants are primarily drawn from SYC’s Job Prospects in Elizabeth.

For more information about Launch please contact hsheppard@syc.net.au