Bassendean Youth Services offers a range of structured and unstructured programmes for young people in the 12 - 25 age range. These include recreational activities, support services and referral to specialist agencies. The purpose of contact between staff and young people is to empower young people to develop and enhance their skills, knowledge, understandings and attitudes which are beneficial to themselves, as both individuals and as members of society.

Bassendean Youth Services acknowledge that inequality in society exists.  As a result some young people are disadvantaged by their position within society, their upbringing, their education and lack of opportunity within their lives.  In order to overcome such adversities, appropriate intervention involving advocacy, liaison, confidence and self-esteem building, education and personal development are focuses of work practices.

Bassendean Youth Services works to ensure that young people are made more aware of those institutions and ideologies that exist in society which can affect their choices. Via consciousness raising and confidence building, and through education and activism, young people are more able to work for change, identify and redress these power