Marking National Reconciliation Week, yourtown Australia recently hosted a event reaffirming its commitment to its Reconciliation Action Plan.

Established in 1961, yourtown provides services for young people across Australia, focusing on mental health, long-term unemployment, youth suicide prevention, child protection, and support for those experiencing domestic and family violence.

The organisation works closely with Indigenous and Pacific communities, providing a safe and welcoming space for young people.

yourtown's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Initiatives Manager Dean Brunker opened proceedings, outlining the organisation's goals and its focus on deepening engagement with Indigenous young people.

Mr Brunker said his work involves direct community engagement and ensuring yourtown's approach is based on respect and reciprocity.

"I do work face to face in community and I want to make sure that the organisation is doing the right thing by the community," Mr Brunker said.

"It can't be take, take, we have to give and give."

Mr Brunker said yourtown had supported the Voice to Parliament referendum and would continue its reconciliation efforts.

"We'd done an open support letter on the Voice as an organisation perspective," he said.

"Tracy Adams and the board fully supported the organisation with the Voice referendum in a positive way because we've got a lot of First Nations people come through our programs and services, and we want to make sure that we are supporting them.

"Obviously, that didn't get across the line. But it doesn't mean we stop with reconciliation."

The event was held at yourtown's Milton Head Office and featured a lunch with emu, kangaroo and crocodile sausages.

Gungarri man Peter Thornley performed live music throughout the event.

Mr Brunker noted yourtown is working to increase procurement from Indigenous businesses.

"Expected outcomes for us is to make sure that we continually look for Indigenous businesses that we can procure from and support those businesses, which we have," he said.

"We've got a large procurement spend overall because we are a national organisation and we are refining that to make sure we're using the right people and that we're using the right organisations - Indigenous and non-Indigenous."

yourtown CEO Tracy Adams said the organisation remains committed to being there for young people whenever needed.

"yourtown is really all about making sure that we are here for young people when they need us, whether that be virtually through our Kids Helpline Service, helping young people into employment and young people who are living in environments of family and domestic violence," Ms Adams said.

Ms Adams said reconciliation plays an important role in shaping the organisation's future.

"For an organisation like ours, reconciliation is a way to demonstrate respect," she said.

"It's a way to demonstrate our ability to continually learn, be willing to learn, to respect those who've come before us, and to really utilise that learning opportunity into how we build ourselves out as an organisation."

Ms Adams said yourtown is committed to transparency in its RAP efforts.

"We've been really deliberate in our RAP plan to be very public about our goals and to report on those goals," Ms Adams said.

"What people can expect is to see us really taking on learning.

"So generally listening to what young people share with us, reflect that back and we need to keep diversifying our content and build it in language, not just the language that we speak, but the language that represents the communities."