Workplaces 

  • Ask them how they would like to celebrate! 
  • Host a morning tea 
  • Write a blog about your amazing kaimahi/ mention them in your pānui  
  • Let young people in your workplace run a lunch and learn about some things that are important to them 
  • Conciously notice the amazingness that young people bring to your workplace  

Schools

  • Ask the students how they would like to celebrate! 
  • Celebrating how young people occupy different spaces within your school community and the different spaces young people have created in your school 
  • Celebrate the amazingness of all of your students at school assemblies 
  • Highlight the cool youth services and opportunities for young people in your area 
  • Commit as kaimahi to working with your young people with strengths-based, youth-centred practice aligned to the national youth development development principles, Mana Taiohi. 

Community spaces  

  • Ask young people how they would like to celebrate! 
  • Highlight the work that young people are doing in your space 
  • Work with young people to identify spaces they can lead in/ want to lead in 
  • Host an event for your wider community to share and highlight the amazingness of your rangatahi  

Community Spaces

  • Ask young people how they would like to celebrate! 
  • Highlight the work that young people are doing in your space 
  • Work with young people to identify spaces they can lead in/ want to lead in 
  • Host an event for your wider community to share and highlight the amazingness of your rangatahi  

Family – parents/ grandparents / guardians 

  • Go for a walk and talk to your young person about how they are taking their place in the world 
  • Get ice cream and celebrate rangatahi’s achievements in the past year 
  • Encourage rangatahi to explore what spaces and places they would like to step into 

Youth Services

  • Empower your young people to create their own Youth Week event 
  • Create space for young people to talk about their achievements and aspiration 
  • Check out our events calendar to see if anything is happening in your rohe 
  • Host an event for your wider community to share the amazingness of your rangatahi Media 
  • Feature positive stories about young people in your region 
  • Feature positive stories about youth organisations who are running Youth Week events 
  • Support young interns, volunteers or kaimahi to step into opportunties 
  • Take part in the Youth Week – Ball in Your Court social media campaign. Catch the ball, tell us about yourself and the place you stand it, pass the ball and the wero on to 3 of your friends! Don’t forget to use #youthweeknz25 
  • Check out what Youth Parliament is up to!