Shout out to youth worker Briair who has been a long term attendee, volunteer and staff member at YAT, but is now going onto new adventures. Briair has been a part of the furniture at YAT for nearly 10 years, working with all age groups, and supporting so many young people through our clubs, programmes, events and mentoring. You’re a qualified youth worker now and we know you’ll be a blessing to many more young people wherever you go! You’ll always be a part of our whānau 
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) has been recognised in Aotearoa since 1975. It’s an official week on our national calendar to honour, celebrate and promote te reo Māori. It’s also a great encouragement to us all to use more te reo Māori in our everyday lives, starting at home with our whānau! Why not try one or two new words of phrases at home this week?! Here’s a Parenting Place article with a few suggestions
Thanks Amy from Earme for coming to help our Craft Club make some amazing polymer clay name ornaments! They loved it!
NEW from Meta and Instagram!!!!!
Private accounts: With default private accounts, teens need to accept new followers and people who don’t follow them can’t see their content or interact with them. This applies to all teens under 16 (including those already on Instagram and those signing up) and teens under 18 when they sign up for the app.Messaging restrictions: Teens will be placed in the strictest messaging settings, so they can only be messaged by people they follow or are already connected to.Sensitive content restrictions: Teens will automatically be placed into the most restrictive setting of our sensitive content control, which limits the type of sensitive content (such as content that shows people fighting or promotes cosmetic procedures) teens see in places like Explore and Reels.Limited interactions: Teens can only be tagged or mentioned by people they follow. We’ll also automatically turn on the most restrictive version of our anti-bullying feature, Hidden Words, so that offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of teens’ comments and DM requests.Time limit reminders: Teens will get notifications telling them to leave the app after 60 minutes each day.Sleep mode enabled: Sleep mode will be turned on between 10 PM and 7 AM, which will mute notifications overnight and send auto-replies to DMs.
Learn more here, https://about.instagram.com/…/instagram-teen-accounts
Loved our Community Project night with our Rock Solid club, serving Kairos Food Rescue with some food packaging, and learning about the amazing work they do rescuing food and serving some of our cities most vulnerable people. Just this year they have rescued and distributed 560,000kg of food, working with 59 groups to help distribute it. Contact them direct to get involved through food rescue, volunteering or donating: www.kairosfoodrescue.org.nz
It’s with both sadness 
and happiness
that we say goodbye to Hannah, our Oscar Coordinator – who is now on maternity leave 
Hannah has served young people at YAT for the past 4 years, and has brought kindness, gentleness, efficiency and a lot of fun to our programmes. You’ll be an amazing Mum and everyone can’t wait to meet baby
But you’ve also planned it perfectly with Shelly, who has just returned from maternity leave to re-take the reigns as Oscar Coordinator! Welcome back Shelly!! Our Oscar Programme runs everyday and collects young people in School Years 4-9 from all local schools – spaces are available so check out our website for more info.
Media Announcement: Mana Ake school mental health programme set to continue…
Mana Ake school mental health programme set to continue | RNZ News
