What we do
DESIGNING FOR IMPACT
We provide young people with the skills, resources and opportunities to actively shape a better future.
Our services
WHAT WE OFFER
We are a social enterprise that specialises in youth co-design, consulting and creative services.
We create inclusive and collaborative opportunities for our partners and young people to move beyond siloed problem-solving and create lasting solutions together.
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We have an engaged community of young people who bring a diverse range of experiences, cultures, identities and perspectives to our work. We are experts in recruiting specific cohorts of young people and meaningfully engaging them in project work.
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We bring together young people with diverse lived experiences, key stakeholders and decision-makers to co-design and co-create solutions to complex challenges.
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We offer a suite of creative services powered by our community of young creatives. This includes brand development, marketing campaigns, copywriting, graphic design, photography, video production and website development.
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We have a strong track-record of developing white papers, insights reports, thought leadership and research that is youth-led or in collaboration with partners, researchers and experts.
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We design and facilitate workshops, forums and events that centre young people’s voices and expertise. From interactive co-design sessions to large-scale summits, our approach ensures participants are actively engaged to contribute to meaningful solutions.
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With knowledge systems as old as time, our First Nations practice emboldens young Mob to be agents for change in creating new self-determined solutions and embed First Nations thinking across our own and clients’ work.
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We deliver practical tools, trainings, frameworks, workshops and learning programs to help organisations better engage and support young people.
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We help organisations design people-centred strategies, services, and programs. Our approach centres co-design principles and practical frameworks to ensure outcomes are informed by young people and the teams that support them.
Our process
HOW WE DO IT
Our work centres co-design principles that bring professional and lived experiences together, as well as our deep expertise working in intergenerational teams.
We work with clients to identify the right approach to meet their challenges, and generate the greatest impact for young people throughout the process.
Admiring the problem
We take the time to truly understand the challenge or opportunity and get deep on our assumptions, biases, knowledge and questions.
Building solutions
We rigorously come up with ideas to address the problem and decide what solutions to build, test and iterate.
Scaling for impact
We take what we've developed back through our co-design model to amplify its impact in target communities.
SYSTEMS OF IMPACT
Our focus
We work across complex systems that disproportionately affect young people.
“The team at YLab are highly empathetic, engaged and intelligent. They were a joy to work with.”
Jacqui Horwood, Senior Program Manager, State Library Victoria