Since 2010 Kristee Jolly has worked relentlessly to make Toodyay a lively, engaging place for young people to live. She developed the Toodyay Youth Advisory Council, and 'am I a cyber-bully?' program in conjunction with the local police and high school. More recently Kristee developed the Toodyay Inclusion Holiday program that brings together children from all backgrounds to connect and participate in local sporting and recreational activities.  What started as a program with 150 participants now sees over 800 children connect and learn from one another in a safe environment.

Liz Grixti is a mother of three and foster carer of five who has a passion for protective behaviours. After seeing the behavioural challenges her foster children were experiencing, she became an advocate for teaching protective behaviours to children in her local school. Her tireless research and self-funded learning is shared daily with as many youngsters, parents, carers and even professionals as she can. Liz has never backed down from ensuring all children have access to the support and help they need in order to create safety around them.

Founder of the award-winning 'Being Seen, Being Safe' school road safety project, Tam has always had a passion for enhancing the safety of Western Australian children. After identifying that young people are often reluctant to take advice from adults,  Tam devised the Students Advising Youth project (SAY) in 2013; a scheme whereby our youth become the educators of other young people on topical crime and community safety issues through the use of film and social media. The scheme has proved so effective it has been expanded to cover all high schools in WA.

RAC bstreetsmart is a partnership between RAC, the WA Police, St John Ambulance, Royal Perth Hospital, and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services. It is an educational event created to reduce the fatality and injury rates of young people by promoting safer driving behaviours. Since its inception in 2012 over 20,000 WA students in years 10-12 have attended RAC bstreetsmart. The event includes a road crash re-enactment, attended by all emergency services, as would occur in a real road incident. A series of speakers, who have been personally impacted by the consequences of road trauma, also share their story with the audience. The results are impressive - feedback shows the event encourages young people to make smarter choices as young drivers and passengers.

Strong Tomorrow provides specialist youth mentoring in collaboration with the Youth Crime Intervention offices to support between four to six at-risk young offenders aged 10 to 14 years old in the WA Police South East Metropolitan district. There are four key activities within the program that include; mentoring, advocacy, practical support and working in collaboration with other services. The goal was to reduce youth crime by 40 per cent but the initiative far exceeded expectations; criminal activity by the participants reduced between 85 to 100 per cent, and school attendance increased between 60-100 per cent.  The children built a strong, supportive bond with their mentor, and consequently reported they felt more capable of making good decisions and have become more valued members of their community.

Targeting vulnerable young people in high risk precincts, such as night-time Northbridge and Perth inner city, the Youth At Risk Strategy (YARS) has been created to prevent or minimise harm caused through compromising behaviours and situations, particularly those related to alcohol and drugs. Lead by Mission Australia's Youthbeat program, the YARS team patrol high risk areas Thursday to Saturday, 9pm to 5am, identifying and helping children under 16 who are vulnerable or at risk of homelessness and connect them to intervention services. As a result many young people who were at risk of harm were kept safe at night and offered ongoing support from the case management team. The service has now been extended to cover the whole of metropolitan Perth.

The Public Transport Authority's (PTA's) Right Track program is a targeted community education program focusing on young people up to 22 years of age. It aims to encourage our youth to be responsible for their own safety and to make positive choices around public transport. The program raises awareness of the dangers and risks associated with trespass and antisocial behaviours on public transport, including fighting, graffiti vandalism, and conflict with staff through comprehensive educational, advertising and community engagement campaigns. Since its inception in 2006, more than 100,000 students and young people across the metropolitan area have participated in the Right Track program.

Since 2010 Kristee Jolly has worked relentlessly to make Toodyay a lively, engaging place for young people to live. She developed the Toodyay Youth Advisory Council, and 'am I a cyber-bully?' program in conjunction with the local police and high school. More recently Kristee developed the Toodyay Inclusion Holiday program that brings together children from all backgrounds to connect and participate in local sporting and recreational activities.  What started as a program with 150 participants now sees over 800 children connect and learn from one another in a safe environment.