Yarning Momentum
The Tier 1 Impact Platform for Youth Programs
Built around the way youth programs actually operate — Young Person → School → Program → Facilitator → Attendance → Outcomes → Impact Reporting. Not a student database. A proof-of-impact engine.
Built by Country.
Powered by Purpose.
Yarning Crescent is a Supply Nation registered Indigenous business. Every dollar spent with us is a direct investment in First Nations economic participation.
For Procurement Teams
Advance your RAP goals
Choosing Yarning Crescent means your organisation is actively contributing to your Reconciliation Action Plan. Procurement from Supply Nation registered businesses is a recognised, measurable RAP activity.
- Counts as a verified RAP procurement activity
- Supports First Nations economic self-determination
- Reportable to Supply Nation and RAP frameworks
- Demonstrates authentic reconciliation commitment
- Strengthens your ESG and social procurement credentials
"Procurement from Indigenous businesses is one of the most direct ways organisations can contribute to closing the economic gap."
FOR YOUTH PROGRAM FUNDERS
Ask the right question
When you contract services or software, you have the power to drive meaningful change. Ask your provider: "Are you using a Supply Nation registered business?" — it's a simple question that creates a ripple effect of Indigenous economic participation throughout your supply chain.
Ask your provider:
"Does your youth program management platform come from a Supply Nation registered business? If not — why not?"
- Strengthens your own RAP commitments through supply chain
- Drives Indigenous procurement without changing your vendor
- Supports the broader First Nations business ecosystem
- Aligns with government and corporate ESG expectations
Every purchase advances reconciliation
By choosing Yarning Crescent, your organisation takes a concrete, reportable step toward your Reconciliation Action Plan targets. This isn't a donation — it's smart procurement that delivers world-class services and drives First Nations economic participation simultaneously.
"Show me every young person we've supported in the last 5 years, what programs they attended, what outcomes improved, what school they came from, and what impact we delivered for our funders."
That's the capability that separates a Tier 1 impact platform from a student database. Yarning Momentum answers it.
- Attendance in spreadsheets, outcomes in a different system
- No way to track a young person across multiple programs
- Funder reports take weeks of manual work
- Schools have no visibility of their students' progress
- Corporate partners can't see their sponsorship impact
- No early warning when a young person disengages
- Child safety incidents tracked in email threads
- One master profile per young person — every program, every outcome
- Longitudinal tracking across years, schools, and programs
- AI-drafted funder reports from live data in minutes
- School portal — principals see their students' progress live
- Corporate portal — ESG, RAP, and CSR reports auto-generated
- Early warning system flags disengagement before it happens
- Child safety module with mandatory reporting workflows
Everything. In one platform.
Click any module to see its full feature set.
Young People Registry
Master profile for every participant — from first contact to alumni. The single source of truth across every program they ever attend.
School & Partner CRM
Every school, principal, teacher, and partner organisation in one place. Track engagement, bookings, contracts, and referral relationships.
Program Management
Templates for every program type — sport, leadership, employability, wellbeing, holiday, school-based, and community-based.
Cohort Management
Create cohorts, assign schools and facilitators, manage capacity and waitlists, and compare cohort demographics across programs.
Session Management
Schedule sessions, allocate venues and facilitators, track completion, and record session-level outcomes and notes.
Facilitator Mobile App
The most important feature. Everything a facilitator needs — from today's students to incident reporting — completed from a phone in under 2 minutes.
Attendance Engine
QR, manual, and bulk attendance. Track trends, late arrivals, absences, and retention — with early warning scoring built in.
Consent Management
Parent, student, media, and evaluation consent — all digital, all audited. Annual renewals with automated reminders and live status flags.
Child Safety Module
Incident reporting, welfare concerns, mandatory reporting workflows, and escalation tracking — built to meet child safe standards.
Privacy & Data Security
End-to-end protection for sensitive children's data. Australian Privacy Act (APPs) compliant, role-based access, full audit trails, and data sovereignty — hosted in Australia.
Outcomes Framework
Track measurable change over time across confidence, resilience, leadership, school engagement, and employment readiness.
Survey Engine
Baseline, mid-program, exit, and follow-up surveys. Parent, teacher, and facilitator surveys. Responses map directly to the outcomes framework.
Longitudinal Tracking
Track a young person across years, programs, and schools. The major differentiator — see the full journey, not just one program.
Impact Dashboard
Executive-level live view of total reach, attendance rates, Indigenous participation, outcome improvements, and program utilisation.
Funder Reporting
Government, philanthropy, and corporate partner reports — auto-generated as PDF. Scheduled delivery. No manual exports.
Social Return on Investment
Prove the value of every dollar spent. Cost per participant, cost per outcome, program ROI, and social impact metrics.
School Portal
Schools see their own students' attendance, outcomes, and participation — and can submit referrals and program requests directly.
Corporate Partner Portal
Give corporate sponsors live visibility of their investment impact — ESG, RAP, and CSR reporting auto-generated.
Facilitator Management
Profiles, qualifications, WWCC, police checks, training records, availability, and performance tracking for every facilitator.
Resource Library
Session plans, facilitator guides, videos, worksheets, program resources, and templates — all in one searchable library.
Smart Automation
One status change launches an entire program. QR codes, consent requests, facilitator workspaces, attendance registers, and Power BI datasets — all created automatically.
Features that impress boards,
funders, and government.
These are the capabilities that separate Yarning Momentum from every other student management system on the market.
Participant Journey Mapping
See every program a young person has ever participated in — from first referral to alumni. The full story in one view.
Early Warning System
Predict disengagement before it happens. Attendance scoring and risk flags surface at-risk participants automatically.
AI Impact Reporting
Automatically draft government and funder reports using your live data. Reduce reporting time from weeks to minutes.
Outcome Attribution Engine
Link measurable outcomes to specific programs. Prove which interventions work — and which don't.
Impact Story Repository
Store case studies, testimonials, videos, and success stories. Turn data into narratives that move funders.
Community Impact Dashboard
Live public view of participants reached, schools engaged, sessions delivered, volunteer hours, and outcomes achieved.
ESG / RAP Reporting
Auto-generate RAP commitments, Indigenous engagement, social procurement, and CSR outcome reports for corporate partners.
School Heat Maps
Visualise which schools are most engaged, which are disengaging, and where to focus relationship-building efforts.
Regional Strategy & Costing Engine
Purpose-built for program managers and grant writers. Model your program costs, check sustainability guardrails, and generate a quote-ready summary — all inside Yarning Momentum.
Revenue Allocation Engine
Enter gross revenue and instantly see the 25% office levy, 5% protected margin, and 70% operational runway split — enforced automatically on every quote.
SCHADS Award Staffing Calculator
Add facilitators, SBATs, and trainees with their SCHADS level. Auto-calculates prep/travel hours at a configurable ratio and applies geography multipliers for metro, regional, and remote delivery.
Weekly Cash Flow Forecast
See cumulative costs vs runway across every week of the program. Instantly spot the week your budget runs out — before you submit the grant.
Quote Summary & CSV Export
Generate a clean, print-ready quote summary with cost-per-participant metrics, blended delivery rate, and sustainability corridor checks. Export to CSV in one click.
Operational Guardrail Signals
Live warnings when your blended rate falls below the $110–$120 sustainability corridor, or when costs exceed the 70% operational runway threshold.
Children's data deserves
the highest protection.
Yarning Momentum is built from the ground up to protect sensitive information about young people. Every design decision — from where data is stored to who can see it — is made with child safety and cultural sensitivity at the centre.
Data Sovereignty
All participant data is stored exclusively on Australian servers. No data is processed, replicated, or backed up outside Australia. Indigenous community data never leaves the country.
- Australian data centres only
- No offshore processing
- Sovereign cloud infrastructure
- Community data stays in community
Encryption End-to-End
Every record is encrypted at rest using AES-256. All data in transit is protected by TLS 1.3. Encryption keys are managed separately from data stores.
- AES-256 encryption at rest
- TLS 1.3 in transit
- Separate key management
- Encrypted backups
Role-Based Access Control
Staff only see what they need to do their job. Facilitators see their own cohorts. Admins see their organisation. No one sees data they don't need.
- Minimum necessary access
- Facilitator-scoped views
- Organisation isolation
- Admin privilege controls
Full Audit Trail
Every action on every record is logged — who accessed it, what they changed, and when. Immutable audit logs support investigations and compliance reviews.
- Immutable access logs
- Change history on all records
- Login & session tracking
- Export for compliance review
Consent-Gated Data
No participant data is used without valid consent. Media consent, evaluation consent, and data sharing consent are tracked separately and enforced at the system level.
- Parent & student consent
- Media consent enforcement
- Evaluation consent gates
- Consent withdrawal honoured
Identity & Authentication
Multi-factor authentication for all staff. Secure session management with automatic timeouts. Facilitator mobile access is PIN-protected with device binding.
- Multi-factor authentication
- Automatic session timeouts
- PIN-protected mobile app
- Device binding for facilitators
Right to Erasure
Participants and families can request deletion of their data. Yarning Momentum supports full data erasure workflows in line with Australian Privacy Principle 11.
- Data deletion requests
- APP 11 compliant retention
- Anonymisation on exit
- Retention policy enforcement
Breach Response
In the event of a suspected breach, built-in workflows guide staff through containment, notification, and reporting — including mandatory OAIC notification where required.
- Breach detection alerts
- Containment workflow
- OAIC notification support
- Affected participant notification
Child Safe by Design
The platform is built around the National Child Safe Standards. WWCC verification, mandatory reporting workflows, and risk flagging are not add-ons — they're core to the system.
- National Child Safe Standards
- WWCC verification tracking
- Mandatory reporting workflow
- Risk flag escalation
Our Privacy Commitment
The young people in your programs have already faced enough. Their data will never be sold, shared with third parties, used for advertising, or processed outside Australia. Yarning Momentum exists to serve them — and that means protecting them completely.
Built around how you actually work
Designed for programs at scale
Ready to prove your impact?
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