Youth Crime Prevention Grants – Competitive stream

Youth Crime Prevention Grants

Competitive stream – Funded Projects

Gippsland Region
East Gippsland
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Gippsland East Mentoring Service for Crime Prevention
Workways Australia / This partnership project, led by Workways Australia, will expand an existing mentoring program to approximately 50 young people aged 10–24 who have had, or are at risk of having, involvement with the criminal justice system in EastGippsland. Youth engagement activities will support reconnection to community life, referrals to service networks, skills and resilience building, and links to education and employment pathways. / $199,620
Grampians Region
Horsham
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Connect the service puzzle for youth at risk – outreach to mentoring
Centre for Participation / Centre for Participation will lead development of a new, coordinated frameworkfor identifying, engaging with and providing linked services to highly vulnerable young people aged 10–24, through a collective partnership including Horsham City Council, Grampians Community Health and Wimmera Southern Mallee Local Learning and Employment Network, Horsham College and Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Cooperative. An outreach and youth mentoring program will provide flexible case management support and planning. / $200,000
Hume Region
Shepparton
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
OutTeach
Save the Children Australia / Save the Children Australia, in partnership with Victoria Police and Youth Justice, will provide a youth worker and teacher to work from a mobile classroom with 20 young people aged 10–24 with high levels of recidivist criminal behaviour and risk of further engagement with the criminal justice system in Greater Shepparton. The program will deliver intensive educational and prosocial support over 12 months to participants (young offenders aged 10–18, and vulnerable young parents aged 19–24). / $200,000
Wodonga
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Building Resilient Adolescents through Community Engagement (BRACE)
Junction Support Services / Junction Support Services, in partnership with Jesuit Social Services, Victoria Police and Wodonga City Council, has been awarded $200,000 to deliver the Building Resilient Adolescents through Community Engagement (BRACE) Program to 40 at-risk young people aged 10–14 and their families in Wodonga. The program will engage young people from local schools in activities designed to strengthen their commitment to school, reduce involvement with police and professional services, and foster connection with community. A Youth Worker will support individual activity planning. / $200,000
Loddon Mallee Region
Bendigo
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Second Chance
CVGT Australia / Job agency CVGT Australia has been awarded $200,000 to lead a partnership of a wide range of agencies to provide a diversionary health, education and employment support program in the municipality of Greater Bendigo to reduce custodial sentencing and recidivism of up to 40 young people aged 17–24 who appear before the Bendigo Magistrates' Court. The project will also facilitate education and employment pathways. / $200,000
Mildura
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Mildura Youth Commitment Program
Sunraysia Community Health Services / A consortium led by Sunraysia Community Health Services will provide intensive, wrap-around case management support to address risk and enhance protective factors for 10 young people aged 10–14 at significant risk of becoming involved with the criminal justice system, and their families. An Inter-Agency Commitment Panel will enhance service coordination. / $199,062
North West Metropolitan Region
Brimbank
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Youth Umbrella Project (Y.U.P)
The Youth Junction Incorporated / The Youth Umbrella Project led by The Youth Junction Incorporated will provide a range of targeted youth service interventions that reduce risk and increase resilience for 120 disadvantaged young people aged 12–24 in Brimbank over two years, working with a wide range of organisations to create practical, purposeful and sustainable outcomes towards employment, education and training, and preventing isolation and disconnection. Case management and multiple programs will support participants. / $200,000
Darebin
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Engaging Arabic-speaking youth in Darebin
Arabic Welfare Inc / Arabic Welfare Inc will work with Victoria Police,Youth Support and Advocacy Service, Headspace Glenroy and referral partners including Youth Justice, Community Correctional Services and the Magistrates’ Court to address factors that increase the vulnerability and risk-taking behaviours of young, Arabic-speaking residents in Darebin who have had contact with the criminal justice system. The project will provide a structured referral process and intervention strategies that work with young people and their parents through case management, counselling and capacity-building activities that have a culturally responsive approach. / $200,000
Melton
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
UTURN 193
Melton City Council / Melton City Council and partners including Victoria Police, Sudanese Community of Melton, Odyssey House, Djerriwarrh Health Services and Djerriwarrh Community and Education Services, will provide sporting activities, case management and wilderness activities to enhance protective factors and address risk factors for Sudanese young people aged 10–24 years experiencing vulnerabilities and contact with the criminal justice system. / $200,000
South East Metropolitan Region
Cardinia
Project name & agency / Project description / Funding
Ignite Program
Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) / The Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) will lead the Ignite Program to engage 20 young people in Cardinia aged 15–22 who are involved in the justice system, in partnership with Cardinia Shire Council and Taskforce. The project will utilise an assertive youth outreach approach that includes therapeutic elements and individual action planning, and will engage participants in recreation and adventure activities to connect them more effectively with their peers and services. / $200,000
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