Team Awesome is one of several teams working under the auspices of Leadership Victoria to hone their leadership and skill sets for their professional lives. Last year five members of Team Awesome approached Threshold Housing Society and asked how they could contribute to the problem of youth housing and at-risk youth in general.
Right from the beginning this energetic and enthusiastic group made the youth in both the housing and SHY program complete participants. During a “dot-mocracy” night at Mitchell House, the youth were invited to dream big and think of what activity, if they had a chance, would they like to do. It was a difficult process because so many of the youth had never dreamed they be able to try something like scuba diving or archery. However, once the votes were in, Team Awesome went about looking for sponsors and trying to organize a special day that would encompass the wishes of the youth plus encourage the values of participation, community, self-realization and increase the profile of Threshold in the community; see post below on Zone 91.3.
Such organization was no easy task as at-risk youth have a general mistrust of adults, may not know what it is to have activities just for fun, and don’t like to be challenged to go beyond their comfort zone.
Thanks to the initiative of some very hard working professionals undergoing training through 
some, Rebecca Scott was able to have Threshold’s Executive Director, a House Mentor and a youth from Mitchell House moderate an entire hour of radio time.
