key success factors

The consultation, research and space assessments undertaken with young people, service providers, Councillors, Council officers and other key stakeholders in development of the Logan Active Youth Space Strategy revealed an overwhelmingly strong need to activate youth spaces.

Activation ensures spaces are made attractive to a wide range of young people and facilitates increases in physical activity participation within the space. This activation approach, based on an inclusive and diverse events model, spaces, partnerships and high level involvement from young people, was very popular with local leaders who immediately showed support for the strategy.

The Strategy and Fully Fest events responded to the following objectives:

• Attend to the needs and interests of the diverse range of young people in Logan through the provision of safe, accessible, inclusive, well-coordinated, affordable and responsive events program
• Provide young people with opportunities to plan, deliver and participate in a complementary range of highly youth appropriate, traditional and non-traditional activities, including sport and other physical activity, as well as community recreation and creative activities
• Support and encourage the diverse range of young people to develop positive and supportive relationships, links and networks in their community
• Activate existing public space and facilities through the provision of youth events that make that space accessible to, and inclusive of, young people
• Increase young people's levels of physical activity, and therefore, their fitness, health and over all wellbeing
• Legitimise young people's use of public space and facilities, to raise the positive profile of young people in their communities, and to actively engage them in community life
• Engender in young people a sense of community belonging and community pride
• Develop young people's life and leadership skills through their active participation in the project, as well as provide hands-on training opportunities for event planning and delivery
• Provide key, innovative consultation opportunities and processes to allow young people to input into decisions around the planning, design, implementation, management and evaluation of active youth spaces
• To actively build and maintain strategic networks and partnerships with a range of community stakeholders, including youth services and agencies, sports providers, PCYC, schools, churches and religious organisations