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Conferences, school programs and community work. Designed with young people, not just for them.
From one-day events to year-long partnerships, across Australia.
Each year we run one-day conferences for primary and high school students across 5 Australian capital cities. Schools book in groups; students leave with new confidence, new skills, and new friends from other schools.
We come to you. Set up your student leadership team, SRC, or a whole year level for a year of confidence, agency and impact. Full-day intensives, multi-week programs, or full-year partnerships.
We help councils, governments, and community groups properly engage young people. Youth advisory groups, regional summits, and full youth strategies, built with the young people they're meant to serve.
YLAA's facilitators properly engaged our young people. We had 70 students from five Albany schools walk in nervous and walk out unstoppable.
Our Year 6s came back completely different. More confident. More vocal. More themselves. We're already booking again for 2027.
Asking adults to step out of the room so the Youth Council could make the final decision themselves was a powerful and respectful strategy. YLAA set us up strongly for the year ahead.
The YLAA team understands what it actually takes to build a young leader. Our SRC is the strongest it's ever been, and our students are leading their own initiatives across the school.
Young Australians impacted
Schools partnered with
Feel empowered to create change
Would recommend YLAA
Iramoo Primary School
Iramoo’s Grade 6 leaders left the Dream and Lead Conference and went straight back to school to find out what their peers needed most. Their answer won the $2,000 YLAA LeaderUp Challenge major prize.
Read case study →Xavier Catholic College
Xavier’s student leaders left the YLAA National Tour with a mission: make their school value of respect something every student could see and feel every day. What followed was a whole-school mural campaign that brought all eight Houses together.
Read case study →Silkwood School
After attending the YLAA National Tour, Silkwood School’s student leaders identified disconnection across their school and decided to do something about it. They designed a school-wide program that brought every year level together through games, competition and a reason to show up.
Read case study →Thebarton Senior College
What happens when young people attend YLAA and take the inspiration home? Thebarton Senior College built their own leadership summit for 80 students from 5 schools.
Read case study →Good News Lutheran College
After attending a YLAA conference, the Student Leadership Council at Good News Lutheran College took on LeaderUp and designed GNLC Week, a whole-school program that broke down the divide between year levels and built a more connected community.
Read case study →Road Safety Commission of Western Australia
In 2023, Youth Leadership Academy Australia (YLAA) collaborated with the Western Australia (WA) Road Safety Commission to deliver impactful road safety education across the state as part of National Road Safety Week. The initiative aimed to empower young people in regional and metropolitan WA to make informed decisions about road safety while engaging them in advocacy for safer road practices.
Read case study →WA Department of Communities & Stan Perron Foundation
The Albany Changemakers Summit was the Great Southern's first youth leadership summit, held in Albany on Tuesday 29 July 2025. Delivered by Youth Leadership Academy Australia, funded by the WA Department of Communities and run in partnership with the City of Albany, it brought more than 70 students from five local schools together to design real solutions for their own community.
Read case study →Shire of Hay
YLAA partnered with the Hay Shire Council’s Youth Taskforce to deliver a series of impactful leadership programs, building essential skills in local young people. Over the span of two years, from March 2023 to April 2025, YLAA helped empower rural youth to lead within their community, delivering a range of tailored programs designed to enhance leadership capabilities, community engagement, and personal growth.
Read case study →WA Department of Communities
YLAA played a key role in engaging young Western Australians aged 18 to 25 for the WA Youth Action Plan 2024–2027, leading targeted outreach, consultation events, and workshops across metro and regional areas. Their efforts successfully gathered over 350 submissions, ensuring youth voices, especially from underrepresented communities, were included in shaping the State's strategic policy framework.
Read case study →Corangamite Shire Council
The Corangamite Youth Leadership Summit brought together 150+ local students and featured inspiring young leaders, interactive workshops, and youth-led discussions focused on leadership, confidence and community impact.
Read case study →Youth Leadership Academy Australia is a DGR-registered charity within The Youth Impact Foundation.
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