OUR OBJECTIVES
Oztry Youth Assist is pleased to introduce to Australia the WhyTry social and emotional life skills program for students and young adults. We are committed to assist, motivate and empower Australians to decide to utilize their innate potential to be creative, compassionate and contributing citizens.
Our objectives are:
- To promote and facilitate character building and life skills programs which empower people to achieve more self-respect, personal freedom of choice, and to access more opportunity in life
- Reduce truancy and school drop out rates
- Reduce youth despair and despondency
- Encourage youth not to give up easily but to exert effort and get back on track towards more self-respect, freedom and opportunity.
Youth service professionals can more effectively help and engage at-risk youth or any young person with low self-esteem and an inability to recognise that they have the potential to make a difference in society. WhyTry is a practical parenting program for parents to meaningfully engage their children.
The WhyTry approach
WhyTry’s strength based approach, using cognitive behavioural and solution-focussed strategies, represents what is currently considered to be best practice in the Community Services sector.
The WhyTry Life Skills Program teaches:
- Constructive problem solving and resilience
- Anger management, increasing social & emotional intelligence
- Understanding the consequences of decisions
- Removing negative labels, build self-esteem
- Dealing with negative peer pressure
- Living and keeping society’s laws and rules
- Building a support system
- The value of exerting time and effort and self-discipline
- Setting realistic goals and having a vision for the future.
WhyTry is a multi-sensory program (using ten visual analogies, ten songs, and 20 experiential activities) that is attractive and enjoyable to youth and adults. The Program’s modular format enables flexible and seamless delivery options in one-to-one or group scenarios. Certified WhyTry Facilitators are well supported by user-friendly teaching and learning resources.
The WhyTry Program teaches youth how to focus on solutions to their problems and convert their challenges, anger, frustration and fear into positive motivation and life outcomes. The Program enables each person to embark on a self-directed rehabilitative process, that places less emphasis on 'offending or negative' behavior by focusing more on the inherent strengths that each person demonstrates. It encourages self-accountability and responsibility for the consequences of behaviour and actions, empowering a person to focus on what he/she can influence or change for the better.
The WhyTry Program is an early intervention tool that is also being adopted by Youth Service Agencies, ‘learning-to-work’ transition workers and counsellors outside the school environment or in alternative education