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Youth Enterprise Trust

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Youth Enterprise Trust (YET) is an independent charitable organisation established in 1991.

YET assists disadvantaged young people (aged 16 - 24 years) through a personally challenging & intense program that begins in the wilderness of the Carnarvon Ranges in Central Queensland, before moving to semi-rural South East Queensland for practical follow-up. The program seeks to assist disadvantaged young Australians make the shift to healthy & self-reliant young adulthoods.

Through the program, each participant is assisted to find & believe in their own abilities & strengths. Participants are then helped to realise these gifts in a practical & fulfilling way. Participants discover a sense of belonging to the country in which they live & a sense of worth & practical purpose within themselves. It is our experience that young people who may have suffered life on the fringes of society have, with the assistance of the Trust, been able to make positive, worthy, & often remarkable contributions to their communities.

The program is three phased & spans a period of up to twelve months. The first phase is a nine day wilderness experience, twelve hours drive west of Brisbane in the Carnarvon Range & Mt Moffat National Park. This is immediately followed by three days at our farm ‘Woodstock’ at Tamborine. Here the participants process their experience, work on the farm & engage in community activities. This work is a backdrop for the main focus which is preparing a practical plan of action for the immediate & short term steps each participant considers they need to take to become the adult that they have committed themselves to becoming.

For the final phase participants are supported & encouraged in the follow up of their action plans. This vital stage seeks to reinforce the experiences & self discoveries made during the wilderness experience now that the young people are back in their ‘home’ environments. All graduates are invited back to Woodstock to revisit their action plans during this time.

The first youth program was run in 1993 and well over 600 hundred young people have now graduated with many hundreds more assisted by our Community Liaison Officer & our on-referral program.

In recognition of the distinctive nature of YET as an organisation & service deliverer, Lloyd Hancock (YET Founder) was named Queenslander of the Year in 2001 & Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2003, Northern Australia (Ernst & Young EOY).

07 5543 6899

PO Box 46, Tamborine, Qld Tamborine, Queensland 4270 Australia

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