Staying on Track
Staying on Track is a new, post-detention youth offender rehabilitation program designed to help drive-down youth reoffending and restore safety where you live.
Staying on Track provides up to 12 months of rehabilitation for youths exiting detention, including at least 6 months’ intensive support to reintegrate youth back into the community after release to prevent them from falling back into a cycle of crime.
The program uses a network of mentors, family support, and community engagement to help youth strengthen life skills, build positive relationships, and reduce reoffending, laying the foundation for long term change.
Who is eligible?
Youths aged 10 to 17 years who are sentenced to detention, or remanded in custody are eligible for Staying on Track. Eligible youths will be referred to the program regardless of where they live.
How the program works
The department will work in partnership with Staying on Track providers to co-deliver the program.
Youth offenders are partnered with a Staying on Track mentor inside a detention centre who will provide wraparound support to the youth and their family while in custody, to assist with the transition back into the community.
After the youth offender has been released from custody, the Staying on Track provider will work in partnership with the department to continue supporting the youth and their family to create a positive, stable environment to prevent reoffending and help re-engage them back into the community, education, and employment.
The Staying on Track rehabilitation model
Staying on Track takes a comprehensive approach to rehabilitation, addressing not just a youth’s criminal behaviour, but their broader social, emotional, practical, and cultural needs.
The Staying on Track provider will provide practical and wellbeing care to meet the youth’s needs such as:
- ensuring they attend medical or other appointments
- assisting with finding stable accommodation
- helping them re-engage in education, training, or employment
- Providing support to the family to help address offending behaviours
- regular mentoring sessions.
This comprehensive approach provides support for youths during a critical period of time, focusing on reducing reoffending post release from detention and ultimately reducing the number of victims of crime.
Staying on Track providers
| Region | Providers |
|---|---|
| South West | Anglicare Southern Queensland Children Australia Inc Fearless Towards Success Village Support Limited |
| South East | Anglicare Southern Queensland Gallang Place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation Kurbingui Youth and Family Development Limited Life Without Barriers |
| Far North Queensland | Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC Namu Collective Pty Ltd Shine for Kids |
| North Queensland | Namu Collective Pty Ltd Shine for Kids Ted Noffs Foundation |
| North West | 54 Reasons |
| Sunshine Coast and Central Queensland | Anglicare Southern Queensland Central Queensland Indigenous Development |
| Wide Bay-Burnett | Bridges Health and Community Care South Burnett CTC Inc |
Program resources
- Factsheet (PDF, 192KB) (DOCX, 1.8MB)
- Easy English factsheet – parents and carers (PDF, 257KB) (DOCX, 570KB)
- Easy English factsheet – youths (PDF, 206KB) (DOCX, 305KB).
More information
For more information about the program, please contact us at YJPracticeEnquiries@youthjustice.qld.gov.au.
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