Safer Communities Program

Over the past five years, Safer Communities continues to work directly with young people, the police and other place-based agencies to directly target criminal and anti-social behaviours in young people.

The Safer Communities program delivered 833 bespoke crime prevention initiatives in eight PCYC locations. Across Cairns South, Townsville city, Palm Island, Rockhampton and Yeppoon, Deception Bay, Inala, Logan and Toowoomba there were more than 12,000 individual attendances by young people.

Safer Communities Coordinators maintained relationships with young people throughout COVID, and the pilot Leading the Way program, a group approach to semi-structured mentoring and engagement for up to a year, which showed improvements in life trajectories for a number of young people.

Safer Communities continued to implement trauma-informed resilience principles in our approach to working with young people who have experienced adverse life events.

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12,000 Locations 8 Crime prevention initiatives individual attendances