Free expo spotlights youth and family services
Published on 11 March 2025
A free expo highlighting the services of more than 30 youth and family organisations – and offering a free barbecue, games, face painting and more – is headed to Aldinga Payinthi College on Tuesday 18 March.
The inaugural Southern Youth and Family Services Expo (3:30pm to 5:30pm) is a collaboration between the City of Onkaparinga, Southern Youth Round Table and the college.
The council’s Team Leader Youth, Jenna Bloom, says the free event aims to create better outcomes for the region’s young people while showcasing the incredible diversity of services available (see the full list below).
“There are so many services available down south for young people, and for those who work with, care for, and support young people – and this expo allows the community to connect with them in the one place,” she says.
“It also provides a platform for the providers to showcase their offerings and build stronger networks in the south.
“If you're a young person, family member, support worker or someone else working with, caring for and supporting young people in the south, we’d love to see you there for a fun arvo!”
Catch up with these organisations at the expo:
- Art to Wellbeing
- Australian Electoral Commission
- Carers SA
- Commissioner for Children and Young People SA
- Department of Human Services (DHS)
- Diverse Learning
- Employment Plus Salvation Army
- Family by Family Uniting Communities
- headspace Onkaparinga
- Heard in the Herd
- Jazz Slattery – Your Body, Your Story, Your Way
- Legal Services Commission
- Maxima
- Metropolitan Youth Health
- Mission Australia
- Neporendi Community Centre Inc.
- Novita
- SAPOL
- School Mental Health Service
- Scouts
- SHINE SA
- South Coast Circus
- Southern Community Justice Centre
- Streetlight Community
- Studio20 Youth Centre
- The Salvation Army
- The Yellow Gate
- Uniting Communities
- Urgent Mental Health Care Centre (Neami National)
- Way of The Horse Coaching
- Willunga and Districts Lions Club
- YMCA
- Young Carers SA
- Youth Inc.
- Youth Opportunities
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The South Team at Uniting Communities is just one of more than 30 organisations that you can catch up with at the inaugural Southern Youth and Family Services Expo.