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Frontyard Youth Services: Reflections on ‘joined up’ practice.

Frontyard Youth Services: Reflections on ‘joined up’ practice. Frontyard Youth Services is a partnership which includes:. Centrelink Melbourne Youth Support Service Young People’s Health Service Youth Transitions Model Job Placement Employment and Training (JPET)

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Frontyard Youth Services: Reflections on ‘joined up’ practice.

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  1. Frontyard Youth Services:Reflections on ‘joined up’ practice.

  2. Frontyard Youth Services is a partnership which includes: • Centrelink • Melbourne Youth Support Service • Young People’s Health Service • Youth Transitions Model • Job Placement Employment and Training (JPET) • Melbourne Gateway Reconnect • Youth Law

  3. Visiting Services include: • Office of Police Integrity • Homeground Transitional Housing Manager • YSAS • Homelessness Advocacy Service

  4. Key features of Frontyard include: • Operating since 1992. • Frontyard targets young people aged 12-25 who are disadvantaged or ‘at risk’. • Many services have a statewide as well as more geographically focused target. • Over 10,000 contacts annually, at least 4,000 are ‘face to face’. • Provides a variety of interventions from early intervention through to crisis or high need service users. • Is both a service delivery platform as well as a model of joined up practice or cross sectoral work. • All service providers are funded through programs within government. • The platform for service delivery funded through Melbourne City Council.

  5. Joined up features include: • Central preliminary assessment point. • Electronic referral system. • Shared policy and procedures. • Clear structures and decision making functions including SMG, Strategic Alliance. • Detailed paperwork including roles of service providers as partners in model development. • Role of Manager and Youth Work staff – providing the ‘glue’ which provides ‘joined up’ practice.

  6. Reflections from practice: • Resource issues and partnerships. • Joining up – is it a means to an end or the end itself? • What constitutes outcomes? • Joining up systems on site - funding - data collection - common intake/assessment • Joining up different levels - policy - departmental responsibilities - practice tools • Creating a ‘joined up’ culture.

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