Show Your Colours.

Show Your Colours.
Towards 2015 SYC Strategic Plan.
SYC has a clear direction for our
organisation towards 2015, marked
by increased service across our
operations. SYC will:
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Continue to put
young people at the
centre of everything
we do.
Ensure that
appropriate and
focused support
exists for the most
disadvantaged
young people in our
community.
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Provide a strong
platform for young
people to engage in
their communities.
As a stakeholder in the future of
SYC, you are invited to Show Your
Colours and support Our Purpose
and ambition towards 2015.
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Have a national
footprint across
every mainland state,
extending the reach
and impact of all of
SYC’s four
focus areas.
Deliver high profile
national events that
positively affects
the Australian
community’s view
of young people.
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Demonstrate
collaboration,
partnership and
impact towards
achieving
Our Purpose.
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Have sufficient
assets under
management to
deliver Our Purpose.
Our Purpose.
SYC exists to positively affect the lives
of young people in Australia.
We define this as:
• Growing the capacity of the youth
sector to eliminate service gaps
• Positively influencing the
community’s view of young people
• Contributing to the formation
of government policy for
young people
• Continuing to improve and
extend our practice for the most
disadvantaged young people
in our community
The focus of Our Purpose on young
people is deliberate and has remained
at the core of SYC since 1958.
Importantly, it does not exclude SYC
from working with Australians of all
ages, when doing so allows us
to extend the reach and impact of
Our Purpose.
Our focus
on young
people
allows us to
work with
Australians
of all ages.
SYC has been
helping people
for three
generations.
Worked out
what I wanted
Got back on
my feet
Retrained for
my new career
Found a
safe home
Got my
confidence
back
Felt truly
happy for the
first time
Finished
school
Found
employment
Faced
my fears
Reconnected
with my family
The story so far.
Established in 1958 with a clear mandate
to support disadvantaged young people
in Adelaide, SYC has literally helped three
generations of people to find a safe place
to sleep, deal with personal issues, finish
school and reconnect with their families.
Throughout that time, SYC has worked
hard to stay true to Our Purpose and
core values.
In 2009 we released our Strategic Plan
to 2020 detailing who we are and what
we wanted to achieve.
Since that time, SYC has expanded
operations beyond metropolitan
Adelaide to regional South Australia
and Melbourne, growing to more than
Learning
Wellbeing
400 staff and posting annual revenue
in excess of $40 million for 2010/2011.
This growth has focused SYC on
extending our reach and impact,
in turn resulting in SYC revisiting our
strategic direction and reaffirming
Our Purpose.
ADELAIDE
Show Your Colours presents the
strategic framework to achieve
Our Purpose over the coming years.
MELBOURNE
Our four
focus areas.
Working
Home
As SYC grows and adapts to a changing
external environment, so too must the
way we define the domains or focus
areas of our work.
The following four focus areas will
define the scope of activities for
SYC to achieve Our Purpose.
HOME: working with our clients to
have a stable home, a sense of
home and to feel safe at home.
LEARNING: enabling our clients to
acquire knowledge, skills and methods
that can be retained and applied
as necessary.
WORKING: helping our clients to
gain and sustain employment in
all its forms.
WELLBEING: taking an holistic
approach to assist our clients to
focus on the multiple dimensions
that influence quality of life.
delivering our
purpose to 2015
will be achieved
through five
strategic priorities.
Strategic priority
Footprint
Extending our reach and impact
nationally is key to SYC helping young
people more and helping more young
people. Our footprint journey to 2015 will
be characterised by:
• Establishing a nationwide footprint.
• Developing scalability for our
client practices and initiatives that
maximise opportunity to realise
growth in services.
• Seeking collaboration,
partnership, merger and
acquisition opportunities.
• Investing in unfunded areas
of need.
Strategic priority
Strategic priority
Practice
Voice
Developing and delivering innovative
client and management practices
means continuously challenging the
way SYC operates and delivers services
to clients. Our practice journey to 2015
will be characterised by:
Young people in Australia deserve
a champion for their goals,
aspirations, needs and contribution.
Our voice journey to 2015 will be
characterised by:
• Implementing robust client
participation mechanisms that
strengthen client relationships.
• Implementing a framework that
drives a culture of effective
decision making.
• Creating a voice that is heard
nationally.
• Linking SYC services based on
client need.
• Creating leaders throughout SYC.
• Establishing new services that
meet the needs of target groups
including minority groups in
our community.
• Providing a vehicle for young
people to tell their stories.
• Confidently attracting attention to
issues that matter to and for
young people.
• Promoting the positive contribution
that SYC and its partners make to
young people in Australia.
• Involving SYC enthusiastically,
effectively and efficaciously in
our community.
Strategic priority
Technology &
Connectivity
Developing and supporting innovative
technological solutions for our
stakeholders and for SYC is key to
achieving Our Purpose. Our technology
and connectivity journey to 2015 will be
characterised by:
• Taking action to ensure that our
clients are not excluded from digital
online technology, thus avoiding the
digital divide.
• Using technology to streamline our
internal processes.
Strategic priority
Influence
Through positively influencing
government, business and the community
SYC will achieve better outcomes for
young people. Our influence journey
to 2015 will be characterised by:
• Using technology to better engage
with our stakeholders.
• Actively participating in policy
formation and consultation.
• Providing evidence-based data on
things that affect young people.
• Building technology into how SYC
delivers services and engages with
our clients.
• Engaging people of influence who
can advocate on behalf of young
people and the issues, challenges
and opportunities they face.
• Advocating for a positive
community view of young people.
• Running community education and
awareness activities that highlight
the issues facing young people.
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