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Youth and Education Services
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Australian Red Cross SA Division operates a number of services and programs for children and youth including the Save a Mate and Breakfast Clubs across South Australia.
The following voluteer opportunies are available to youth.
Save a Mate
About the service
save-a-mate is a program designed to reduce incidences of harm and fatalities associated with substance use in young people through relevant provision of first aid and peer education.
Where does this service operate?
The service operates across the state at various youth functions and events including schoolies festival, raves, and Battle of the Bands.
What role do the save-a-mate volunteers play?
SAM volunteers encourage a safe environment at corporate and community youth events through providing peer support, first aid services, information and health resources.
The save-a-mate First Aid Unit volunteers are fully trained young people aged 18 - 30. They provide support and information about drugs, alcohol and other youth related issues and first aid assistance to young people attending events.
The save-a-mate team have responded to many casualties ranging from a band aid for a cut, asthma attacks, over intoxication, broken bones, head wounds and drug overdoses.
For more information or to become a volunteer:
Save a Mate, Peer Education
About the service
The Peer Education Program is an interactive, educational program that teaches young people how to recognise, prevent and respond to the occurrence of overdoses, including a nationally accredited cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course.
The focus of the save-a-mate peer education program is to equip participants to provide potentially life saving support to their mates, families and others where official first aid providers are not present. Through the save-a-mate Peer Education program, young people are encouraged to take responsibility for themselves, their friends and others around them.
Where does this service operate?
The program has a total of 20 trained peer educators and is delivered in both metro and country areas across South Australia. Since the program was first delivered in September 2005, we have trained over 2000 young people in south Australia in schools, community groups, correctional facilities and other youth programs.
For more information:
Good Start Breakfast Club
About the service
The Good Start Breakfast Club is designed to provide a nutritious start to the day for children who would otherwise, for a variety of reasons, not receive breakfast.
Working in partnership with the Sanitarium Health Food Company, the program serves breakfast to over 830 children in selected Queensland schools.
The benefits
The benefits of the Breakfast Club are numerous. Breakfast provides the vital energy needed for growth and learning. It also improves the behaviour and performance of students.
For more information or to become a volunteer:
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