Townsville Youth Housing and Reintegration Service

The Youth Housing and Reintegration Service’s objective is to reduce homelessness affecting young people aged 12-20 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 Program will have 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 -
Stage 1. Referrals and assessment.
Stage 2. Initial intervention.
Stage 3. Medium/long term assistance
Stage 4. Follow up and evaluation
Geographical location: Townsville

Please read information pages prior to referring to the YHARS program Support Service.

Referral Form.

b) After Care Service
The After Care Service will support young people aged 18 years or over who are exiting care or who already have exited from care after being subject to a child protection order.
Provision of Case Management will be limited to young people in this client group who reside in 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 information pages prior to referring to the YHARS program After Care Service.

Referral Form.

Townsville:

Address: 641 Ross River Road, Kirwan

Phone: (07) 4723 4172 ; (07)4723 4213

Fax: (07) 4755 4967

Location Map: 641 Ross River Road

Program Brochures and other useful links:

Townsville Youth Housing and Reintegration Service brochure

Department of Communities website

Queensland Government Housing and Homelessness Services

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