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1. Half all youths in juvenile detention unsentenced: AIHW
(Daily News/Blog)

About 1,000 young people are in juvenile detention on an average night in Australia and almost half have yet to be sentenced for a crime, according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health ...

2. Mission Australia’s AGM looks back at 2011
(Daily News/Blog)

... that by speaking out on issues we understand through extensive frontline experience and thorough research – such as homelessness and juvenile detention – we are more effectively advocating for disadvantaged ...

3. Student on a mission
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... Oceania University of Medicine while working for our SWYS service. SWYS comprises 12 individual programs that provide training and education for young people and work with youth who are exiting detention. ...

4. Help them, don't lock them away
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - Courier Mail, 31 August 2011 As the number of young people entering youth detention centres continues to rise and members of the community express desperation over how to stop youth offending, ...

5. Media coverage - Courier Mail: Help them, don't lock them away
(Daily News/Blog)

As the number of young people entering youth detention centres continues to rise and members of the community express desperation over how to stop youth offending, it's time to take a hard look at Queensland's ...

6. Early help is best way for juveniles
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... crime. If we want to reduce youth crime and stop "the revolving door" in youth detention, we have to help them turn their lives around. Our "diversionary" programs for young offenders, programs that ...

7. Media coverage - Cairns Post: Early help is best way for juveniles
(Daily News/Blog)

... in youth detention, we have to help them turn their lives around. Our "diversionary" programs for young offenders, programs that tackle the underlying causes of their behaviour as an alternative...I respond ...

8. Leading charities and church offer to house unaccompanied asylum seeker children
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... their visa application. The program provides a sustainable model of community-based accommodation for asylum seekers and a viable alternative to homelessness, detention centres or deportation. However, ...

9. Call goes out for asylum policy based on 'better angels of our nature'
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Media coverage - The Age, 22 August 2011 Prominent business and union leaders have endorsed a new strategy on asylum seekers that would have mandatory detention phased out within two years and Australia's ...

10. Kids in limbo, Australia's growing reliance on juvenile remand
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Media coverage - The Drum, 17 August 2011 Throughout Australian jurisdictions detention is considered an option of last resort in combating juvenile offending, with custodial sentences imposed only when ...

11. Helping young offenders turn their lives around
(Daily News/Blog)

A new Townsville service run by Mission Australia is helping to change the lives of young people just released from youth detention. The Supervised Community Accommodation pilot opened its doors last ...

12. Juvenile detainee findings a ‘damning indictment’
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Media coverage - Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2011  A government reporting revealing that half the young people in NSW juvenile detention facilities were abused as children, and nearly 40 per cent ...

13. South East Metro Community Drug Service (WA)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... Support Service in order to address substance-use issues as necessary and required. Specialist solutions Provides outreach to young and adult men in detention and offers drug and alcohol information, ...

14. MA to provide accommodation support for young offenders
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... young offenders aged 13 to 18 years with complex needs and a history of homelessness. "It is important for the service to reach young people leaving detention, particularly Aboriginal & Torres ...

15. Opinion: Private capital can be key to social change
(Daily News/Blog)

...  Unfortunately the money available from governments to scale this kind of program is more often than not tied up in the aftermath of ‘tough on crime’ sentencing and providing detention. But by issuing ...

16. Drug and Alcohol Youth Service (WA)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... young people in the service as appropriate. Youth Detention Counsellor Service This service provides counselling, information and education on illicit substance misuse to young people aged 12 to 18 ...

17. South West Youth Services (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)

... awareness program (Campbelltown) Post-release support program, which works with adolescents who have left detention (Campbelltown)  Bankstown Early Intervention Prevention Program  Links To Learning ...

18. State and Territory governments must set targets to reduce numbers of young people in detention
(Daily News/Blog)

... but ineffective – most of those released will re-offend. Detention also intensifies the need for greater levels of support post-release. “And when you look at the population of juveniles in custody, almost ...

19. Young Offenders
(Uncategorised Content)

... through holistic community-based services than through detention/incarceration. Young people and the criminal justice system: New insights and promising responses (169.15 kB 2009-07-27 10:04:39) ...

20. Young people and the criminal justice system: New insights and promising responses
(Downloads/Social Policy Reports/Social Policy Reports Documents)

... through holistic community-based services than through detention/incarceration.  ...