Shoalhaven City Council’s Nowra Youth Centre is nearing completion. It comprises four separate offices – with one office dedicated to the Koori Habitat, two meeting rooms, an art workshop area, music room, games area, Internet café, television lounge and car parking at the rear of the facility. Council’s Youth Development Officer, Liam O’Sullivan, said the building would become a focal point for a broader range of activities for young people in the city.
“We are looking at wider solutions to the challenges facing young people in regional areas,” he said. “As a social ecologist, I would like to see young people in touch with nature or having the ability to sit and think about things, taking holistic approaches to dealing with regional issues. “The world is moving pretty fast for young people and they need strategies to deal with constant change.”
He said that Council has completed construction work at the Youth centre, and that the fit out was almost complete.
This is the first of three planned youth centres in the municipality which has 15,000 people aged between 12 and 18 and is one of the fastest growing areas in Australia.
