Will Smith is the 2020 recipient of young Tasmanian of the year, he founded JCP a school and community youth leadership program and also works as a Police Officer with the Tasmanian Police.
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Luke Anderson is a young man with lived experience of the justice system. His self-awareness and authenticity shines through in this conversation and we were honoured to have the chance to hear some of Luke's story.
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Ron Zarth, support worker at Jesuit Social Services' Individual Support Program speaks to us about the challenges faced by young people in the justice system.
Sanne Oostermeijer tells us how the design of youth justice facilities can best support positive outcomes for justice-involved young people in Victoria!
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Manager of Community Justice Programs Genevieve Higgins shares with us the values and processes that underpin this holistic and therapeutic approach to justice. Towards the end of this check-in Genevieve shares with us a moving group conferencing story that has really stayed with her.
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Giovanna Nicolia tells us what the concept of home means to young men at risk of homelessness, exiting detention, and re-entering the community.
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Diana Johns tells us about how she came to pursue a career in Criminology and what the biggest misconception most people have about the justice system is!
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Fleur Souverein tells us about the success of small scale community based juvenile justice facilities in the Netherlands.
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Research fellow at the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and co-creator of Local Time.
When the National Gallery of Victoria and VicHealth announced the inaugural Victorian Design Challenge (VDC) with the question: ‘How might we increase the resilience of today’s young people’, it seemed to be speaking directly to me about the state of youth justice in Victoria.
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Dr Sally Wilkins is a recently retired Psychiatrist. She reflects on how the Our Way of Working framework influences the way Jesuit Social Services staff work with young offenders.
I had the privilege recently of joining with a large audience of emerging practitioners attending a forum led by Jesuit Social Services.
The purpose of the forum was to hear from Jesuit Social Services Senior Practitioners about what it is like to work with young people in the Youth Justice space, how they deal with the many barriers they encounter and how, working within Jesuit Social Services ‘Our Way of Working’ framework, they can overcome those barriers.
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