1. Engaging Youth
Justice Clients – A
Strategic Conversation
2. 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
3. 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.
4. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services offered: Services
• 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.
5. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
Do you understand
the Youth Justice
continuum?
6. 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?
7. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
How do you know
when one of your
young people is in a
juvenile detention
centre?
8. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
Do you know what
happens when a
young person is in a
juvenile detention
centre?
9. 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?
10. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
Can you maintain
contact with the
young person when
they are in the
juvenile detention
centre?
11. 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?
12. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
What information can
you access when a
young person is
transitioning from a
juvenile detention
centre?
13. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
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?
16. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
What have we done so far
in S.A.?
Shared Learnings
17. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
Shared case management
processes across agencies
and within the Youth
Training Centres
18. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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
19. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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
20. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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, ….
21. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
Provision of learning
opportunities within the Youth
Training Centres and in the
community, including ongoing
educational and engagement
activities
22. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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
23. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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
24. Youth Connections
-
Specialised Services
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
26. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
Capacity building across South
Australia including issues that
have been identified and are
beginning to be addressed
throughout the state
27. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
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.
28. Youth
Connections –
Specialised
Services
Outcomes of Forums
Issues identified could be summarised
as Communication and Information.
29. Youth
Connections –
Specialised
Issues included:
Services
2.Case Management processes across agencies
– Assessment information (welfare, health and
education) and NGOs
– Clarity of roles
3.Information sharing – pre, during and post
4.Community options post-release – implications
for YC, PB, schools, NGOs, local councils, …..
30. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
Other Capacity
Building Activities
31. Youth Connections
– Specialised
Services
• Working with local Partnership
Brokers (LLENs) and Youth
Connections providers – local issues
– local solutions
• Working with Youth Networks re what
is happening in their region – beyond
mapping
• Establishment and participation in
local referral networks
32. Youth
Connections –
Specialised
Services
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
33. Youth
Connections –
Specialised
Services
7. APY Lands – delivery of tyre fitting course
– Work with FAHCSIA
– Work with PB and YC
– Work with local school
– Work with CDEP
34. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
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.
35. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
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
36. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
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
37. Youth Connections –
Specialised Services
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.
38. Youth
Connections –
Specialised
15.
Services
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
3. Accrediting Community Service Order hours
40. 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?
41. 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?
42. 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?
43. 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?
44. Some Key Questions
How do we better
personalise engagement
with youth in the Youth
Justice system?
