The friendly YOSS team provides Palmerston North's young people with a range of accessible, holistic and youth appropriate services. We're passionate about helping young people and qualified to offer professional advice and support. The Youth One Stop Shop offers free information, support, advocacy, counselling, health services, preparation or life skills programmes and holiday programmes for young people in Palmerston North aged between 10 and 24.

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Services Offered

Counselling - YOSS counselling is youth-friendly, non-judgemental, confidential and free! Sam's our super friendly youth counsellor. She works at YOSS Monday to Thursday and can help you out with expressing your feelings, coping with stress, trying different things and generally feeling ok about being you. Check out Sam's staff profile here. Our counselling service is completely voluntary, which means you come along because you want to. The first counselling session is all about checking one another out. You get to meet Sam and decide whether you like her, and Sam gets to have a bit of a chat with you about what's going on in your life. You can even bring your family and friends along so they can get to know Sam too. After this first session we'll be able to talk about if and how we can help, or if there is someone else who may be able to help and support you more. You get to tell us whether you want to come back. It's completely up to you! It'll take around 50 minutes each time you come and see us, and anything you share with us will be kept confidential. However, if you tell us anything that worries us (like about hurting yourself, hurting someone else or if you are being hurt), we will talk about this together and develop a plan if we need to tell anybody else. Our service is free for people aged between 10 and 24 thanks to funding from the District Health Board and Ministry of Social Development. This means we sometimes have a waiting list.

Alcohol & Drug Support - YOSS provides youth-friendly drug and alcohol info as well as advocacy, education, support and advice for young people. We take an early intervention and prevention approach and can also provide awareness programmes if needed. Colin, our Youth Worker, can help you focus on your strengths and encourage you to let others work alongside you when times get tough. He'll help you establish and develop positive relationships with role models and other significant people in your life. He knows some great practical alternatives for coping with stressful situations, and can help you explore any issues relating to drug and alcohol use.

Clinical Psychologist - The YOSS Clinical Psychologist service is mainly used by young people between 15 and 19 years of age and it's free for you to access. Anything you tell Di will be kept confidential, unless you are being harmed, are unsafe or want to harm someone else, but we'll chat more about that when you come in. The main thing is, we're here to help out early on, and talking about it with someone who understands can make such a huge difference. If you'd like to get in touch with Di just give us a call on 06 355 5906 or contact us via our website. Find out more about Di by clicking here. Clinical Psychology has the following service exclusions based on our government funding contract: sexual abuse, violence and anger, intellectual disability, learning difficulties, criminal activities, parenting difficulties, conduct disorder and severe mental health.

Fees and Payment

This is a registered charity.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Teens
Children

Payment:
Pro-bono