About us
Work commenced on the Port Stephens PCYC on the 16th of November 1979. The building was complete and officially opened almost 1 year later on the 23rd of August 1980. The Port Stephens Police Community Youth Club is situated in the heart of the Tomaree Peninsular at Austral Street in Nelson Bay. |
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Our vision To have PCYC NSW a pespected and recognised youth service organisation that is dedicated to excellence in youth leadership and youth crime prevention. |
Mission PCYC is a state wide partnership between young people, the community and the NSW Police Service working to assist young people develop the qualities to be responsible citizens and leaders and to avoid becoming offenders or victims of crime. |
Our brief history
In 1997 the PCYC movement in NSW celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of the first official "Police Boys Club" at Woolloomooloo in April 1937. The Club officially known as the Police-Rotary Boys Club was established in a disused police station as an initiative of Police Commissioner, William John Mackay, and the Rotary Club of Sydney.
The purpose of the Club was to provide a venue where boys could engage in healthy sporting, cultural and recreational pursuits and mix with police in a non-confrontational environment, improve the relationship between youth and the police and so help reduce the incidence of juvenile crime and anti-social behaviour.
By the time the Club officially opened on 1 April 1937, it had a membership of 400 boys and facilities such as a library containing 3000 books, wrestling, physical culture classes, debating and teams in the rugby league competition.
In July 1937 the founders of Woolloomooloo Club began the process of bring together other boys clubs that police and initiated around the State and placing them under the authority of a central governing council. Clubs had been established independently from Woolloomooloo Club at Bega, Cooma, Cootamundra, Goulburn, Tamworth, Yass and Young and there were moves to establish others in Balmain, the St George area and Wollongong.