regional RESET
Helping young people reconnect, rebuild and reset
Overview
Regional Reset is an early-intervention initiative supporting young people aged 8–17 who are beginning to show high-risk or anti-social behaviours. The program works alongside families, schools, and local services to strengthen relationships and create safer pathways forward.
Regional Reset is funded by the Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support, under the Queensland Government’s Making Queensland Safer plan.
What is it?
Regional Reset offers a short-stay, live-in experience where young people can step away from harmful environments and reset their mindset, behaviour, and relationships.
Each stay is supported by ongoing peer mentoring and case management to ensure that progress continues at home, school, and in the community.
Our peer mentors and case workers walk alongside each young person and their family, helping them connect with the supports they identify as most helpful. Together, we focus on building on strengths, repairing connections, and expanding each young person’s circle of support.
Build self confidence
Sport, adventure & cultural programs
Counselling, drug & alcohol services, & family therapy
Develop life & employment skills
Re-engage with education & training
BEFORE
THE LIVE IN
PROGRAM
For up to 6 weeks, case workers and peer mentors work closely with each young person to complete an initial assessment. This helps identify individual needs and set meaningful goals in partnership with families, schools, and local services.
Over approximately 5 weeks, participants take part in 3 short residential workshops that combine intensive mentoring, adventure-based learning, and peer-to-peer support.
DURING
WORKSHOPS DURING THE LIVE-IN PROGRAM
1 2 3
3-night stay at PCYC Capricorn Coast (Rockhampton) or PCYC Bornhoffen (Moreton Bay).
3-night stay
AFTER
2-night stay with the option to invite up to 2 members of the young person’s family or network.
For up to 6 weeks following the live-in component, Youth Insearch provides in-home and community support focused on strengthening wellbeing, reducing risky behaviours, and improving engagement with education, employment, and family life.
2 3 JOURNEY YOUNG PERSON’S
REFERRAL & ASSESSMENT
Weekly co-agency panel meetings for referral triage and assessment. Consultation with young person’s stakeholders e.g. education providers.
EARLY ENGAGEMENT & FAMILY PLANNING
W eeks 1 - 6
Early engagement social workers and peer mentor engagement. Network meetings commence. PCYC and activity engagement to divert from high-risk behaviours.
EARLY ENGAGEMENT & FAMILY PLANNING
Over 5 weeks
Week 1: 3-night intensive, young person focused.
Week 2 & 3: In-community support with peer mentors, case workers and network meetings. Activities in PCYC.
Week 3: 3-night intensive, young person focused.
Week 4 & 5: In-community support.
Week 5: 2-night intensive, focused on engaging family and the young person’s broader support network.
Transition over 6 weeks 4 5
TRANSITION & COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION
Community based activities and transition period. Social worker/peer worker support. Network meetings. PCYC club engagement. Warm referrals to services and programs.
SUSTAINED CHANGE & EMPOWERMENT
Ongoing value-added inclusion in Youth Insearch Program.
1. 15 hours support per annum.
2. 4 workshops per annum.
3. Weekly support groups.
4. Youth volunteering and leadership opportunities with Youth Insearch and PCYC.
Queensland Police Service
Child Safety
Community services
Schools & education partners
Youth Justice Service Centres
Families & carers
Court Coordinators & Co-Responder teams
How to refer
Complete the referral form online at bit.ly/regional-reset
A Youth Insearch staff member will contact you to discuss the next steps.
For more information, please email the Youth Insearch Regional Reset team at: rr-rockhampton@youthinsearch.org.au
rr-moretonbay@youthinsearch.org.au
Why it matters
Regional Reset gives young people a safe space to pause, reflect, and change direction.
By working with both the young person and their family, the program helps rebuild trust, repair relationships, and strengthen connections to school, community, and culture— reducing risk factors linked to disengagement and offending.
If you’re a young person interested in joining the Regional Reset program, or if you know someone who could benefit, we’d love to hear from you.
Who are we?
Youth Insearch is a nationally recognised, peer-led organisation helping young people recover from trauma and improve their mental health.
For over 40 years, we’ve delivered evidence-based programs codesigned and facilitated by young people with lived experience. Our model includes weekend workshops, weekly support groups, and individual support across Victoria, Queensland, and New South Wales.
Grounded in a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach, we prioritise safety, connection, and empowerment, embedding lived experience to build trust, reduce stigma, and foster resilience.
Our values
Lived experience
We acknowledge and value lived experience of all our participants, volunteers and staff.
Open, raw and real
We value the power of vulnerability and encourage and accept open feedback.
Valuing people and connection
We respect and look for the best in everyone we interact with. We seek to build connections between people.
Empowering people
Nothing about me, without me. We continually seek to give people agency to make their own decision and the autonomy to be the stewards of their own work and life.
youthinsearch.org.au rr-moretonbay@youthinsearch.org.au rr-rockhampton@youthinsearch.org.au
Disclaimer: This information is provided for general educational and information purposes only. It is current as at the date of publication and is intended to be relevant for all Australian states and territories (unless stated otherwise) and may not be applicable in other jurisdictions. Any diagnosis and/or treatment decisions in respect of an individual person should be made based on professional investigations and opinions in the context of the clinical circumstances of the person.