Community Check-in: Can small Scale Youth Justice Facilities work in Victoria?

Sanne Oostermeijer tells us how the design of youth justice facilities can best support positive outcomes for justice-involved young people in Victoria!

Dr Sanne Oostermeijer is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne. Her work involves national evaluation projects and policy-based research in primary mental health care, suicide prevention and the youth justice system. After winning the Victorian Design Challenge in 2018, she has been working with architectural graduate Matthew Dwyer to study how the design of youth justice facilities can best support positive outcomes for justice-involved young people in Victoria.