Youth Work and Founding of Reach
In 1994, Stynes co-founded (with film director Paul Currie) The Reach Foundation and became a prominent youth worker in Victoria. Reach believes that every young person should have the support and self-belief they need to fulfil their potential and dare to dream. Reach achieves this by creating safe and supportive spaces where teenagers can share stories and experiences honestly. A place where they can increase their self-belief, discover who they are and recognise that they're not alone. Les Twentyman in 2010 criticised Jim Styne's Reach foundation for only helping rich kids in the eastern suburbs after his western suburbs based charity which helped mainly financially disadvantaged kids was denied funding by the federal government but the reach foundation received 4 million dollars
In addition to Reach, Stynes worked on government advisory boards including the 1997 Victorian Government Suicide Task Force and the Federal Minister For Youth's Youth Advisory Consultative Forum Committee.
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