Advocate
I am a passionate youth advocate - leveraging my lived experience of unemployment and mental ill-health to bring about positive societal and systemic change.
Nathan Carolus
Nathan is a 23-year-old Youth Advisor based in Frankston, on Melbourne's Mornington peninsula. He is a passionate advocate for young people and is committed to making meaningful change in his local community.
Having first engaged several years ago as a young person seeking support, Nathan’s work at Brotherhood of St. Laurence has provided him the opportunity to advocate for youth at the Jobs & Skills Summit in Canberra, and to host the organisation’s annual Sambell Oration.
Having dealt personally with significant mental health issues, and having experience as a participant within Australia's employment services system, Nathan is extremely well placed to provide feedback and alternative solutions that result in greater outcomes for young people.
“Compare yourself not to others today, but to yourself yesterday”.
Ongoing Advocacy
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As a member of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence Youth Advisory Group, Nathan works to develop better services for young people; particularly those transitioning from schooling to employment and/or further study, as part of the Brotherhood’s Youth Transitions program.
Nathan's work at BSL has seen him represent to governments both state and federal on numerous occasions, providing testimony to the House of Representatives’ Workforce Australia Review, and participating as a panelist at the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit.
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Nathan also works as part of the National Youth Employment Body’s Youth Advisory Group. Working alongside a dozen other young people from across Australia, the YAG provides insight into how decisions regarding affecting can be better informed via the practice of co-design, and promotes youth involvement more generally.
