Community grant help tackle youth offending in Hervey Bay

• A new project in Hervey Bay will receive almost $300,000 in funding under the second round of the Palaszczuk Government’s Community Partnership Innovation Grants
• Marigurim Yalaam Indigenous Corporation for Community Justice will undertake the project aimed at addressing youth offending in Hervey Bay
• In total, 12 projects in communities across Queensland will share in more than $3 million in funding in the second round of the grants program.
• The local projects complement the wide range of government programs and initiatives aimed at tackling the complex causes of youth crime.

Youth Justice Minister Leanne Linard today announced that a Hervey Bay project is one of 12 new projects to receive a Palaszczuk Government Community Partnership Innovation Grant to tackle youth offending in Queensland.

Marigurim Yalaam Indigenous Corporation for Community Justice will receive almost $300,000 to deliver its program. Using a Rites of Passage framework, it will see at-risk young people supported intensively over six weeks, before attending a Rites of Passage camp, followed by a further six weeks of assistance.

Quotes attributable to Minister for Youth Justice Leanne Linard

“Local communities are often the first to see indicators that young people are disengaging and are at-risk of engaging in anti-social behaviour or offending.

“When I have met with local community groups, they have told me that they want to work with the government and put their local experience and knowledge to good use to help divert young people from crime.

“The Palaszczuk Government’s Community Partnership Innovation Grants provides funding to enable them to do just that.”

Quotes attributable to Member for Hervey Bay, Adrian Tantari

“The Palaszczuk Government’s number one priority is community safety. It shares the community’s concerns about youth crime and it is acting.

“The Premier recently announced a comprehensive set of measures aimed at targeting serious repeat offenders, tackling the complex causes of youth crime and supporting community safety, including an additional $100 million investment in programs proven to make a difference in diverting young people from crime.

“However, it’s going to take a whole-of-community effort to respond to youth offending and eowevengaging with grass roots community groups like Marigurim Yalaam on local programs is another important part of the government’s response to this issue.”

More information

For more information on the Community Partnership Innovation Grant scheme visit www.cyjma.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-department/funding-grants-investment/community-partnership-innovation-grants

Other projects to be delivered under Round 2 are:

• Brisbane – Lutheran Church - $300,000
  Targeted holistic complex case coordination and intensive case management for at risk, vulnerable young people displaying offending behaviours. This project will target the underlying causes of criminal behaviours, focusing on social and emotional wellbeing.
• Brisbane – Beyond DV - $295,665
  Holistic early intervention to young people affected by domestic and family violence, with the goal of reducing the impact of trauma and minimising the likelihood they will engage in criminal activity.
• Cairns – Selectability Limited - $259,331
  An after-hours outreach and mentoring program in Earlville and Edmonton. It includes transportation to return young people home, and referrals for young people to connect them with existing cultural programs and key agencies.
• Cairns – Australian Training Works Group Pty Ltd - $299,423
  An Indigenous Group Training Organisation that provides work readiness courses and builds young people’s skills for the workplace, such as communication, teamwork and other interpersonal skills.
• Townsville/Mount Isa – Queensland Youth Services - $128,592
  The Proud Warrior project will provide multi-agency intervention for primarily Indigenous young people who are at risk of disengaging from school, young people from low socio-economic households, and cases where young people are known, or their family is known, to police.
• Mount Isa – Save the Children trading as 54 Reasons - $300,000
  The ‘Back to Community’ reintegration program will provide rights-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive throughcare support for young people whose home country is Mount Isa, Doomadgee or Mornington Island when leaving the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre.
• Woorabinda – Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation - $300,000
  A neuroscience-informed program for Aboriginal 10 to 18-year-olds on bail in Woorabinda, whose needs cannot be met by mainstream or alternative education and training programs.
• Logan – Youth Off The Streets - $293,500
  Targeted and evidence-based interventions which caters for two main groups, young people leaving detention and returning to the community, and young people who need to re-engage with education.  Cultural groups in Logan who will benefit from the program include First Nations, Pasifika and African communities.
• Toowoomba – Adam Wenitong - $142,483
  An intensive 30-week immediate response for re-offending youth including seven-month cultural project with cultural mentoring and connection to the First Nations community.
• Toowoomba – Raw Impact - $300,000
  Cultural connection over an intensive period of seven weeks for at-risk young people, with the option of ongoing engagement in meaningful cultural activities and projects that support the rejuvenation of native title land at the Yumba.
• Goondiwindi – Winangali Infusion - $300,000
  ‘The Block’ provides young people in Goondiwindi, and in the New South Wales border towns of Boggabila and Toomelah with a safe and supervised community hub for pro-social opportunities, cultural education, recreational activities and more. 

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