The Aboriginal Youth Summit in Adelaide is designed to foster leadership and communication skills.
Year 9 student Tyreece represented BRSC at the Aboriginal Youth Summit in Adelaide on Friday week 7.
He was among about 30 students from Years 8-12 to attend the conference, which included workshops on mental health, racism, education and employment.
It was designed to foster leadership and communication skills and encourage collaboration between youth and community stakeholders.
Tyreece said the summit was held at the Adelaide Zoo and started with a Welcome to Country.
“Then we went out and did art with artist Shane Cook, we painted on a boomerang, which was a real highlight of the day for me,” he said.
It is the second year Tyreece has been nominated for the leadership summit and he said it’s provided valuable skills.
“I learnt how to talk to other people and how to communicate about mental health,” he said.
“It’s helped me to build my confidence and talk more and it helped me be proud of who I am.”
Aboriginal Education leader Michael Toogood said Tyreece was an outstanding ambassador for the school.
“He has grown in his leadership and communication skills and that’s why he was nominated to represent us,” Mr Toogood said.
He said that it was important that young people had a voice about issues that impact them.
“I think that’s the purpose and power of the youth summit, that it gives a voice to young Aboriginal Australians to be confident in their identity and to talk about the things that should be talked about to help everyone move forward.”
