The Youth Housing and Reintegration Service’s objective is to reduce homelessness affecting young people aged 12-21 years who are either exiting, or transitioning from child protection orders, are transitioning to the community following a period of sentence or remand in a Youth Detention Centre, or are homeless, or in inadequate housing.

The Townsville YHaRS program is funded by the Queensland Government, Department of Communities.

The Program has two components: a) Support Service, b) After Care Service

a) The Support Service will provide case management based assistance and brokerage. There will be four stages in the service delivery –

1. Stage 1. Referrals and assessment.
2. Stage 2. Initial intervention.
3. Stage 3. Medium/long term assistance
4. Stage 4. Follow up and evaluation

Geographical location: Townsville

Please read information pages prior to referring to the YHaRS program Support Service.
b) After Care Service
The After Care Service will support young people aged 17-21 years who are exiting care or who already have exited from care after being subject to a child protection order. This  can include young people aged 16 years that are ‘self-placing’ or disengaged from the child protection system.

Provision of Case Management will be limited to young people in this client group who reside in the Townsville area. The main focus of this service will be provision of brokerage funding. Techniques similar to these applied in case of the Support Service will be used.

Geographic catchment areas/referral sources:
Townsville Local Government Area for Support Service clients and North Queensland and Far North Queensland (Department of Communities) regions for After Care Service clients eligible for brokerage funds.

Please read YHARS Guidelines and Information prior to referring to the YHaRS program After Care Service.

YHARS Referral Form 2021

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