Youth Partnerships:

Coordinating services to help young people stay on track

Aims of Youth Partnerships

• Strengthen collaboration and consistency in service provision to young people, in order to:• Improve engagement with education and training,

leading to an increase in the completion of Year 12 or equivalent

• Reduce escalation of problems for individual young people

Demonstration Site

Governance Board Membership

WMR DEECD, DHS, CEO’s City of Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay, Victoria Police, LLEN,, Department Health, DEECD Regional Network Leaders

EMR DEECD, DHS, Knox, Maroondah, Yarra Ranges Human Service Managers, LLEN, Victoria Police, Department Health, DPCD, Justice

SMR DEECD, DHS, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Council CEO’s, Department Health, Justice, Victoria Police

BSW DEECD, DHS, CEO’s City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast Shire, Borough of Queenscliffe Department Health, Justice, Victoria Police, 2 Nominated Community Service agencies, Associate Professor Swinburne Uni

Grampians DEECD, DHS, CEO’s Shires of Moorabool, Hepburn, Golden Plains, Pyrenees, City of Ballarat, Department Health, RDV, DPCD, LLEN, Catholic Ed, Victoria Police

LMR DEECD, DHS, CEO’s Shire Central Goldfields, City of Greater Bendigo, Swan Hill Rural City Council, Justice, Department Health, Catholic Ed, Centrelink, LLEN, Aboriginal Rep Group, Child Youth and Family Service Alliances

Disengaged Young People

LGA level data has been estimated from a combination of ABS 2006 Census data and ABS 2007 Survey of Education and Work data

The Costs of Disengagement

For every dollar that government invests in retaining early school leavers, the expected return is as much as 3.2 times more

Average days of student absence (%) 2006 - 2009

Education Partnerships Across Victoria – the Context

Breakdown of types of partnerships by number of schools

Demonstration Sites

Building on existing activity and the work of the Better Youth Service Pilots:• Barwon South West

– Identifying Young people at risk of Homelessness– Model of improving outcomes for young people in residential care– Cross sectoral tracking and referral– Flexible learning setting

• Grampians– Flexible Learning Individual Pathways learning centre– Outcome Star tool for case management– Outreach Teaching Support

• Loddon Mallee– Place based governance– Models of integrated service delivery– Flexible learning and case management – ICAN

Demonstration Sites

• Yarra Ranges, Maroondah and Knox– No Wrong Door– Improved referral processes– Service usage data tool– Early identification tool

• Frankston and Mornington Peninsula– Outreach teaching – Oakwood– Multi agency planning

• Wyndham and Hobsons Bay– Processes to link schools and external services– Visible access point for advice, needs assessment and referral– Improve access to services

Secretariat activity

• Research data base

• Common Practice Framework

• Privacy Impact Assessment

• Finance and Governance Project

• Consultation with vulnerable young people

• Proposed data investigation

• Building an understanding of what’s happening outside the

demonstration sites

• Evaluation

Summary

Next Steps

• Investigate data collected and opportunity to create a systemic data baseline

• Effective mechanisms to share information

• Consider options to be tested for vulnerable groups:

– Unaccompanied minors

– Young people in Residential Care

– Young people in Justice Facilities

– Young people in the Homeless system

Further information

• Visit:

www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/youthpartnerships

• Email:

youth.partnerships@edumail.vic.gov.au