Funded projects: Youth Crime Prevention Grants

This project is a collaborative community response targeting a group of high risk, recidivist offenders aged 13 to 18 years.

This is an early intervention project providing intensive support to young people aged 10 to 14 years with a demonstrated risk of engaging with the criminal justice system or with current engagement in low-level offending.

This project provides intensive support young people aged 10 to 17 years by bringing together the case workers they have had involvement with as part of a Multi-Agency Support Team.

This project targets highly vulnerable young people, including high-risk recidivists living in, or near, the Banksia Gardens Public Housing Estate.

To watch a short video about this project and meet some of the young people it supports, click here. 

This project provides intensive support services to young people aged 16 to 24 years and their families to create a pathway away from offending.

These projects provide tailored support across both locations for young people aged 14 to 22 years who have been identified as serious or recidivist offenders through a 3-phase approach.

This project provides intensive support to 20 young people aged 12 to 21 years and their families through a dedicated ‘advocate’.

This partnership project expands an existing mentoring program to young people aged 10–24 years who have had, or are at risk of having, involvement with the criminal justice system in East Gippsland.

The Centre for Participation is leading the development of a coordinated framework for identifying, engaging with and providing linked services to highly vulnerable young people aged 10 to 24 years. The outreach and youth mentoring program provides flexible case management support and planning.

This project provides a youth worker and teacher to work two-on-one with young people aged 10 to 24 years from a mobile classroom.

Job agency CVGT Australia is leading a partnership of agencies to provide a diversionary health, education and employment support program in the municipality of Greater Bendigo.

A consortium led by Sunraysia Community Health Services provides intensive, wrap-around case management support to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors for young people aged 10 to 14 years at significant risk of becoming involved with the criminal justice system, and their families.

This project provides a range of targeted interventions to reduce risk and increase resilience for disadvantaged CALD young people aged 12–24 years in Brimbank.

This project provides sporting activities, case management and wilderness activities to Sudanese young people aged 10 to 24 years who are experiencing vulnerabilities and have had contact with the criminal justice system.