Our Mission

The Youth One Stop Shop has been helping young people since 1994.

The Youth One Stop Shop empowers young people to make informed choices to enhance their positive well-being and self development. We strive for a community where young people have the opportunities to actively participate in decisions which impact on their well-being.

YOSS is an approved social service provider, supported by Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry of Health and Think Hauora. We also receive funding from the  Palmerston North City Council and are recognised as an Incorporated Society under the 1908 Act. Our staff are competent in the provision of the services we offer, and we're consistently acknowledged as successful market leaders in youth services.

We work from a youth development framework. This approach helps ensure young people are fully prepared for adult life by addressing broader developmental needs instead of focusing primarily on solving or fixing their ‘problems'.

The Mana Taiohi Youth Development Principles focus on enhancing protective factors in young people's lives, supporting a sense of belonging and connectedness to key social environments, ensuring young people have safe and caring relationships, and promoting young people's active participation and engagement in all areas of their lives. At the core of this strategy is a youth-based approach to the positive development of young people.

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