In 2022 we completed a Community Based Needs Assessment showing there is a need for: a Youth Hub in Albany; Family Parenting Services, and free family activities, and opportunities for people to connect. Because of this needs assessment we now provide a badminton club, parenting courses with Parenting Place, a parent counselling service (Triple P parenting), a ‘Youth Hang Out’ and a parent coffee group in partnership with Plunket. We are also part of forming an Albany Youth Eco-System.

Because of the needs identified and hence the mahi we do, and now because more recently, early this year ACAT were gifted a building, we are now in the process and planning of a Youth and Family Hub Community Facility. This Youth and Family Hub Project team is overseeing the relocation of the gifted building for the purpose of serving Youth and Families in Albany. The building will be available to the community to use that will empower our youth and families to thrive.