Activity details
Youth Justice NSW is providing capacity development opportunities to Specialist Housing Services who provide accommodation to young people who use violence in the home, and supporting funding for accommodation for those young people on an ongoing basis.
The Short-Term Remand Program broadly enables more effective youth diversion options in the first instance, assists Aboriginal Legal Service and police to lower risk concerns surrounding bail options, and sources alternate accommodation options for young people when it is unsafe to return home.
Included in the program in both sites of South Sydney and Wagga Wagga is wrap-around multidisciplinary support to young people who have an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order, responding in a targeted way to the use of violence in the home.
Implementation progress update
Youth Justice NSW has tailored domestic and family violence related training designed for Youth Justice staff or staff of Specialist Housing Services to support trauma informed, culturally safe work with young people using and/or experiencing violence in the home.
Capacity development opportunities for Specialist Housing Services who provide accommodation to young people who use violence in the home, has enabled those services to accommodate young people whose needs would otherwise result in them being risk-assessed out of accommodation.
Wrap around support and sourcing of alternate accommodation in both South Sydney and Wagga Wagga prevent young people from being remanded in custody on the basis of their complex needs or the lack of safe accommodation.
More information
- Learn about the National Plan to End Violence against women and children 2022-2032.
- Read the First Action Plan 2023-2027.
- Browse the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan update.