THE NATIONAL YOUTH COLLECTIVE IMPACT

Some of the National Youth Collective members were also in PROJECT ROCKIT's IN REAL LIFE Project, which was used to inform Prevention United’s Policy Brief to government.

A collection of thoughts and lived experiences from the collective was used by CEO Lucy Thomas to advise at the Snapchat Global Safety Advisory meetings.

SHAPING OUR FEEDS Report and Campaign shared with META APAC Safety Summit and Australian Association for Adolescent Health (AAAH) Conference.

SHAPING OUR FEEDS Outreach from the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVIC) who have used the report and videos to advocate on this issue, including profiling the report in a range of forums and promoting it to our statewide readership. They are producing a profile piece on the work to publish and distribute to their members.

PUBLIC HEARING: Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 [Provisions]. CEO, Lucy Thomas platformed quotes, reflections and research from Shaping Our Feeds to present perspectives of the Collective to this Senate Committee Hearing. 

The COLLECTIVE advised on the needs and inclusion of young people as part of their bid for “The Centre for Young People, Technology & Social Change” funding from Australian Research Council.

ReachOut have taken advice and guidance through meetings and a presentation to their staff to strengthen their own participation practices based on our COLLECTIVE Model.

Two members of the COLLECTIVE advised on the Federal Office for Youth’s “Youth Engagement Toolkit” (Vedrana & Chloe)

SHAPING OUR FEEDS research and advice supported the development of META’s Teen Accounts and the decision to give users greater control over recommender systems by resetting their algorithm data.

The initial request for merchandise, which resulted in a range of merchandise being designed and created by the COLLECTIVE, offered stimulus internally for the SALES & MARKETING team to generate merchandise to support marketing & sales.

A Collective Member facilitated the feedback of teachers and students at Salesian College through their Child Safety Committee and proactively reached out to PROJECT ROCKIT meeting with our Head of Programs to give authentic and candid advice.

A small group of Members responded to a survey from our CEO to support the development of the organisation’s BRAND STRATEGY.

COLLECTIVE Member, Lamisa, spoke to ABC News for a series on bullying & teen mental health (June 2024).

COLLECTIVE Member, Mia, spoke to ABC News Radio about the impact of the social media ban on young people living in rural and regional locations. (November 2024)

COLLECTIVE Members, Noa & Maxine, participated in the design and filming of PROJECT ROCKIT TV (PRTV) Season 5, created in partnership with Culture Spring, a Youth-led Social Enterprise by Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) and with support from the William Buckland Foundation.

After the Shaping Our Feeds launch, Konan was invited onto the Butterfly Foundation’s Body Image podcast to talk about male body image, fitness influencers and algorithms (Nov 2024).

Theo is a spokesperson for Born This Way project (July - Dec 2024)

Jolie & Dom co-presented at the Australian Association for Adolescent Health (AAAH) Conference (Nov 2024).

Lamisa co-presented at Starlight Foundation’s Ignite Conference (Aug 2024)

Lamisa, co-presented to the Reach Foundation about our model (Aug 2024)

Lamisa, co-presented at OPEN Symposium (Oct 2024)

Jolie, Konan, Taihan and Dhishana were a panel at the Shaping Our Feeds Launch (Nov 2024)