Support for young people

Our School Focused Youth Service works with young people who leave secondary school early or may be disengaged from their education to provide additional support to help them remain actively involved in their learning and achieve their goals.

Students may be disengaged from their secondary education for a variety of reasons including

• Personal factors – physical or mental health issues, disability, run ins with the law, drug and alcohol issues, pregnancy or parenting responsibilities, caring responsibilities or learning difficulties
• Family and community factors – social or economic hardship, homelessness, living in out-of-home care, family breakdown or family violence
• School related factors – challenging relationships with teachers or other students which have a negative impact on experiences of learning

We work with local schools to support these students by actively engaging them with our broad range of health and wellbeing services.