WELCOME TO OZTRY YOUTH ASSIST
Oztry Youth Assist seeks to address impediments to youth development.
Our aim is to equip Australian youth with vital life skills and character building educational programs which will enable our youth to realise their potential in life.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our youth but we can certainly better prepare them with skills to utilize their innate potential to become creative, compassionate and contributing citizens, that is, 3C citizens.
To achieve this objective Oztry Youth Assist is promoting the unique, multi-sensory WhyTry social and emotional life skills program and will seek funding to establish The Noble Oz Quest project.
WhyTry was introduced by Rotarian David Yap in 2004 to a pilot group of 18 high schools, involving over 500 Years 7 to 10 students. Rotary clubs in Wagga Wagga, NSW, and Rotary clubs in District 9800 in Melbourne supported this pilot project.
In 2007, more than 4,500 students in 80 schools across Australia benefited from the WhyTry program.
Some schools liked the program so much they applied the WhyTry program to an entire Year level of students, e.g. Balwyn High School, a state selective school, with all 275 Year 9 students for two consecutive years.
Student Welfare and Wellbeing Teachers, Youth Agency Counselors, Case Management Officers and School Psychologists have provided encouraging feedback, confirming that WhyTry works with a wide range of students.
We warmly invite you to help empower Australian youth with social and emotional life skills.
Founders
David Yap is the Australian founder of Oztry Youth Assist.
Christian Moore and Hans Magleby are the U.S founders of the WhyTry Program.
Oztry Youth Assist is a Research Institute, approved by DEST, Department of Education, Science and Training.
ACN: 097 735 996. It is an endorsed Deductible Gift Recipient ( DGR ) and Income Tax Exempt Charity ( ITEC ).