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Engaging Youth Justice Clients – A
Strategic Conversation
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
A unique contract for SA
Target group
Young people who are severely disengaged and who are in, are exiting, or are at imminent risk of engaging with the Juvenile Justice System in South Australia
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
• State specific arrangements in South Australia, funds allocated for a Youth Connections – Specialised Services Program to link with the South Australian Juvenile Justice system.
• Youth Education Centre won the tender, with Service to Youth Council (SYC) Inc as a
partner in the consortium.
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Services offered:• Flexible and tailored case management
• Youth focused activities for target group
• Assist education providers and other organisations across South Australia to strengthen their services and build their own capacity to work with the target group.
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Do you understand the Youth Justice continuum?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Does everybody involved in the provision of services to Youth Justice clients understand the Youth Justice continuum? e.g. Schools, YC providers, …
How do you know?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
How do you know when one of your young people is in a juvenile detention centre?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Do you know what happens when a young person is in a juvenile detention centre?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Who is responsible for case management at different stages of the Youth Justice continuum?
Who else has case management responsibilities?
How do you know who has
what role?
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Can you maintain contact with the young person when they are in the juvenile detention centre?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
What is your role when a young person is transitioning from a juvenile detention centre? How do you know what your role is?
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
What information can you access when a young person is transitioning from a juvenile detention centre?
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1.What if the young person has completed whole of order?
2.What if they have conditions in the community?
3. What does this mean for you?
4. How do you know?
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What is Youth Education Centre?
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What have we done so far in S.A.?
Shared Learnings
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Shared case management processes across agencies and within the Youth Training Centres
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1. YEC/SYC Partnership – a multi-disciplinary approach
a. YEC undertakes the educational case management component and overall supervision of case management processes.
b. SYC providing access to Drug and Alcohol counselling, housing support, youth court advocacy.
c. Collaborative practice includes weekly meetings
d. Ongoing contact with rural/remote providers
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2. Working with Youth Justice:
a. Case management by Community Youth Justice in the metropolitan area and District Offices in the rural/remote – implications
b. Day-to-day case management within the Youth Training Centres
c. Through-care case management – including input into detention and release planning
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3. Advocacy / Sharing of Information
How do all agencies working with youth in the Juvenile Justice System maximise their interventions – mental health, Student with Disability, Guardianship of the minister, ….
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
Provision of learning
opportunities within the Youth
Training Centres and in the
community, including ongoing
educational and engagement
activities
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1. Schools within the Youth Training Centres
a. Educational and vocational programs
b. Personalised programs based on diagnostic assessments
c. SYC and other agencies provide programs
d. Sharing of information as part of young
person’s transition
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2. Alternative Learning Facility
3. Short Vocational Courses• Vocational and life skills• E.g. Driver L’s program• 3 – 5 days duration• In-house and outsourced• Accredited and non-accredited• Linked with Learning Plans• Work experience and work placements
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4. Mobile Training Units• Training delivered on-site• Tyre fitting auspiced by Bridgestone
Australia • Forklift Licence• Industry sponsorship• Targeted Indigenous Programs• Used across metropolitan area, rural
and remote
Mobile Training Unit
Mobile Tyre Fitting Unit
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Capacity building across South
Australia including issues that
have been identified and are
beginning to be addressed
throughout the state
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Held 2 Rural/Remote Forums for Youth Justice, Police and Education (schools and regional service providers)
The purposes of these forums were:• To gain a shared understanding of Youth Justice processes in rural areas of SA• To improve transition processes for youth within the Youth Training Centres to
and from rural SA• To propose changes to current practices and processes across agencies that
can be ‘managed up’ to respective CEOs
Believe many of the recommendations and
actions apply to metropolitan SA.
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Outcomes of Forums
Issues identified could be summarised as Communication and Information.
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Issues included:
1.Case Management processes across agencies1. Assessment information (welfare, health and
education) and NGOs
2. Clarity of roles
2.Information sharing – pre, during and post
3.Community options post-release – implications for YC, PB, schools, NGOs, local councils, …..
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Other Capacity Building Activities
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1.Working with local Partnership Brokers (LLENs) and Youth Connections providers – local issues – local solutions
2.Working with Youth Networks re what is happening in their region – beyond mapping
3.Establishment and participation in local referral networks
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4. Referral point for students exiting Youth Training Centre
5. Accrediting what is happening within the
community – South Australian Certificate of
Education or Introductory Vocational Education
Certificate 1 e.g. adventure program
6. Delivery of short courses and mobile training
courses
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7. APY Lands – delivery of tyre fitting course– Work with FAHCSIA– Work with PB and YC– Work with local school– Work with CDEP
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8. Discussions with Youth Court Judges regarding
conditions/restrictions placed on young people upon release - these are often difficult to achieve.
9. Being aware of any new initiatives and
contacting personnel to share our work
10. Early identification – identifying young people
who have their first admission to a Youth
Training Centre and attempting to engage them
in relevant activities upon release.
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11. Work with other Australian Government service
providers such as Centrelink and Job Services
Australia and relevant SA initiatives and
programs e.g. ICAN/FLO – e.g. able to have on-site visits by Centrelink; contact person
12. Running information sessions for schools, education department regional service providers, government and non-government agencies about the educational and training component of Youth Training Centres – use of student voice is
powerful
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13. Working with the regional VET coordinators to:– Share with them how to set up a supported
work placement program for youth at risk– Sharing with them the importance/role of
spoken language for youth at risk
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14. Co-facilitated a national conference for educators in Juvenile Justice Centres which included a federal DEEWR representative talking about YC and PB. We shared how we are delivering the Specialised Services contract which provided an opportunity for these people to gain information and go back to their local regions and contact the providers – many of them had not heard of these programs.
Youth Connections – Specialised Services
15. Working with Youth Justice (SA government welfare agency) re programs, case
management, GOM students, …
16. In-service/introduce programs e.g. Our Journey to Respect
17. Accrediting Community Service Order hours
Some Key Questions
Some Key Questions
Does everybody involved in the provision of services to Youth Justice clients understand the Youth Justice continuum? e.g. Schools, YC providers, …
How do you know?
Some Key Questions
Who is responsible for case management at different stages of the Youth Justice continuum?
Who else has case management responsibilities?
How do you know who has
what role?
Some Key Questions
Does everybody working with the young person have all of the information they need to effectively case manage or work with them?
Some Key Questions
What good practice and partnerships work to support positive pathways for young people who are at imminent risk of entering, are in, or who are exiting the Juvenile Justice System?
Some Key Questions
How do we better personalise engagement with youth in the Youth Justice system?
Some Key Questions
How do we strengthen partnerships to support this engagement?
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