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A fundraising golf tournament last month that raised $75,000 for Youth In Transition’s mental health services was the icing on the cake for the organisation, which recently established a retreat in Waitoki to further support young people.

Youth In Transition (YIT) has been operating mental health services for young people since 2014 and runs its Journey Back To Awesome programme from its Whangaparāoa clinic. Currently it has 374 young people in the programme, and 675 have been helped on their road to recovery. Since last November, the young people enrolled in Journey Back To Awesome have also been welcomed to a new retreat, called Duke House, in Wainui, which has also enabled the charity to expand the type of services it can offer.

The rural property was purchased by businessman Rod Duke, who wanted