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1. 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, ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Young adventurers in the Pilbara
(Daily News/Blog)

... at helping predominantly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Perth to find the right path – and stay on course. OnTRACK offers young crime offenders help and life-advice to prevent re-offending. ...

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

... November and has already helped prevent youths from reoffending or ending up back on the streets. The pilot was officially launched on Friday by Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers ...

6. MA to provide accommodation support for young offenders
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... social housing. They will develop individual case plans with the young people addressing offending behaviour, and deliver support services to improve their integration back into the community," said Mr ...

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

... reoffending and time spent in jail, you also reduce adverse health and welfare outcomes and increase the rate of employment, which not only saves money but increases revenue through income tax and GST. ...

8. U-Turn (TAS)
(Community Services/Community Services)

U-Turn, located in Tasmania, is a diversionary program for young people aged 15-20 who have been involved in, or are at risk of becoming involved in, motor vehicle theft. U-Turn aims to reduce re-offending ...

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

... governments currently had the wrong policy settings for effectively tackling juvenile offending. Mission Australia’s spokesperson, Anne Hampshire, said research and experience had proven the best approach ...