Its our third week on the program but our first camp week for the term! We started the week by focusing on our camp and packing our hike bags. We picked everyone up from Collingwood station and headed to CAS to get packing. In our hiking packs we needed to roll our sleeping mats and sleeping bags, add out wet weather gear, our tents and a few other essential bits and bobs. The crew got stuck straight into this and worked extremely efficiently to get the job done. After this w

Its our first full week here at Newstart and we have loads to get through! Wednesday was a big day for the students as it was one of our only classroom based days. We started the day at Yarra Youth services and met with the Undercurrent crew to start our respectful relationships session. Undercurrent are an outside organisation that specialise in all things surrounding relationships and respect. We played a few ice breakers and then split off into male and female groups. The

Hello everyone and welcome to the Yarra blog and our first term for the year! We love coming back to work in the Yarra area as there are so many wonderful people and services to work with. The blog will be updated each week with an insight into the activities we've been doing as well as photos. The week started out how most of our days do at Collingwood train station. It was great to see everyone arrive on time with everything they need and ready to go. This week in particula