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Youth Partnerships: Coordinating services to help young people stay on track

Youth Partnerships: Coordinating services to help young people stay on track. Aims of Youth Partnerships. Strengthen collaboration and consistency in service provision to young people, in order to:

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Youth Partnerships: Coordinating services to help young people stay on track

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  1. Youth Partnerships:Coordinating services to help young people stay on track

  2. Aims of Youth Partnerships • Strengthen collaboration and consistency in service provision to young people, in order to: • Improve engagement with education and training, leading to an increase in the completion of Year 12 or equivalent • Reduce escalation of problems for individual young people

  3. Disengaged Young People LGA level data has been estimated from a combination of ABS 2006 Census data and ABS 2007 Survey of Education and Work data

  4. The Costs of Disengagement For every dollar that government invests in retaining early school leavers, the expected return is as much as 3.2 times more

  5. Average days of student absence (%) 2006 - 2009

  6. Education Partnerships Across Victoria – the Context Breakdown of types of partnerships by number of schools

  7. Demonstration Sites Building on existing activity and the work of the Better Youth Service Pilots: • Barwon South West • Identifying Young people at risk of Homelessness • Model of improving outcomes for young people in residential care • Cross sectoral tracking and referral • Flexible learning setting • Grampians • Flexible Learning Individual Pathways learning centre • Outcome Star tool for case management • Outreach Teaching Support • Loddon Mallee • Place based governance • Models of integrated service delivery • Flexible learning and case management – ICAN

  8. Demonstration Sites • Yarra Ranges, Maroondah and Knox • No Wrong Door • Improved referral processes • Service usage data tool • Early identification tool • Frankston and Mornington Peninsula • Outreach teaching – Oakwood • Multi agency planning • Wyndham and Hobsons Bay • Processes to link schools and external services • Visible access point for advice, needs assessment and referral • Improve access to services

  9. Secretariat activity • Research data base • Common Practice Framework • Privacy Impact Assessment • Finance and Governance Project • Consultation with vulnerable young people • Proposed data investigation • Building an understanding of what’s happening outside the demonstration sites • Evaluation

  10. Summary

  11. Next Steps • Investigate data collected and opportunity to create a systemic data baseline • Effective mechanisms to share information • Consider options to be tested for vulnerable groups: • Unaccompanied minors • Young people in Residential Care • Young people in Justice Facilities • Young people in the Homeless system

  12. Further information • Visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/youthpartnerships • Email: youth.partnerships@edumail.vic.gov.au

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