Figuring out what you want to do after school and navigating through your late teens can be some of the toughest and most confusing times in your life.
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That's where Year13's The Truth Project comes in.
The program, which this year has been delivered to 40 schools across the state, is designed to assist students from Years 10 to 12 in finding out what options are available to them post-school.
The program is developed through research into student wellbeing and attitudes towards leaving school.
Presenters Jannah Beth and Scott Wilson visited Cowra High School last week and say they hope the students will discover there's more to life than an ATAR score or attending university.
"We get to come on the frontlines in schools and deliver The Truth Project, which is essentially an assistant to career advisers," Jannah said.
"I think everyone by the end of it has an idea of their own strengths, some ways to go about goal setting and a little bit more about what options are available to them."
For Year 12 students, a teacher is invited to tell their story to the group.
"With Year 12, we invite one of the teachers to come up and share a bit of their story because quite often you'll hear they didn't finish high school, they have become teachers at age 40, they have had these crazy life stories, happy to talk about mental health, happy to talk about their experience," Jannah said.
"We know 80 per cent of students are feeling stressed about this Year 12 time, well don't feel stressed, you've got an exciting time ahead of you and hear from the mentors around you that life isn't meant to go in a straight line."
The presenters said they themselves didn't know what they wanted to do after school and share their stories with the students.
"We do it through storytelling and interactive workshops, we think that by sharing our own stories, ones that aren't necessarily classified as the normal way to go about it... that by sharing our own stories, we can really reach home with them," Jannah said.
"Year 13 are a bunch of rats who didn't know what we were doing ourselves and we are really excited to be doing this."
The Truth Project is hoping to return next year.
