Youth ready assessment & guide

This resource combines the Youth Ready Assessment and Youth Ready Guide to help organisations increase participation of independent young volunteers, particularly those in their teens and twenties. It supports organisations to assess how youth friendly their volunteering opportunities are.

The assessment helps identify strengths and gaps across key focus areas, while the accompanying guide provides practical suggestions and action planning support to better involve and engage young volunteers.

Benefits for volunteer managers

• supports assessment of how well volunteering opportunities appeal to young people.
• helps identify practical improvements to attract and engage youth volunteers.
• supports planning and action setting for youth involvement.
• contributes to sustainable volunteer participation across generations.

How to apply this resource

This resource is most useful when reviewing volunteer programs, planning to involve more young volunteers, or developing action plans to improve youth participation and engagement.