What is the Youth at Risk Initiative (YARI)?
The Youth at Risk Initiative has been introduced to improve services to vulnerable young people between 10 and 25 years and work to target resources where they are needed most and simplify administration needs by:
- promoting better integration of service delivery and stop duplication
- reducing administrative needed for services who are funded under more than one initiative
- responding to highest priorities and meeting diverse needs
- giving services the capability to report results and measure longer term trends including lower levels of offending and homelessness
- working with human service systems including:
- housing and homelessness
- youth justice
- child safety
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services
- family support and domestic and family violence services
YARI was formed by merging the following programs:
- Early Intervention Young Parents Support
- Innovative Health Service for Homeless Youth
- Outside School Hours Care
- Personal Support and Skills Development
- Regional Crime Prevention
- Social and Economic Development Services
- Youth and Community Combined Action
- Youth at Risk Outreach Services
- Youth Crime Prevention
- Youth Suicide Prevention
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Youth Sector Development Services
Program guidelines and protocols
Program guidelines Program guidelines and referral and information sharing protocols referral and information sharing protocols provide organisations with direction and information to deliver services under the initiative
More information
Email youthsupport@communities.qld.gov.au or contact the Office for Youth
