Transcript at 1917.
S.99, Family Action (Vic), at 5.
S.120A, Queensland Government, at 19.
S.40, Youth and Family Services (Logan City) Inc. (Qld), at 6.
The only funding received for this program is a rental subsidy from the Queensland Housing Commission of $30.00 per week per house.
S.40, Youth and Family Services (Logan City) Inc. (Qld), at 10.
20 Nov 1988 Sunday Mail at 9.
S.19, Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc. (Qld), at 1.
A. Crow, Kings Cross Youth Resources (NSW), Transcript at 171.
A. Kelly and S. Sewell, A Community Development Approach to Homeless Youth (unpublished HREOC document, 1988) at
18. See also, S.45, Galilee Family Placement Scheme (ACT), at 2.
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M. Stokes, Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc. (Qld), Transcript at 292.
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Ibid.
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S.19, Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc, (Qld), at 8.
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Id, at 10.
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M. Stokes, Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc. (Qld), Transcript at 296.
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Ibid.
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Id, at 297.
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Quoted in S.19, Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc. (Qld), at Appendix G.
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S.77, Youth Accommodation Coalition (Vic), Appendix 9, at 48.
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Id, at 41.
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Id, at 44.
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Id, at 50.
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Id, at 49.
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Id, at 50-51.
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Id, at 43.
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Id, at 43.
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S.137, Support Housing for Young People in Fitzroy, Collingwood and Carlton Inc. (Vic), at 2.
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B. Jowle, Youth Accommodation Karratha (WA), Transcript at 790.
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S.77, Youth Accommodation Coalition (Vic), Appendix 9.
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S.120G, NSW Government, at 8.
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Ibid.
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S.69, Wombat Youth Accommodation Services Group Inc. (Vie), at 5.
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Wombat is critical of the Ministry of Housing's policy of charging a flat rate which they see as unrealistic for those on extremely low incomes such as the Job Search Allowance.
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S.69, Wombat Youth Accommodation Services Group Inc. (Vic), at 4.
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Id, at 3.
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M. Blowes, Residential Alternatives for Teenagers, Transcript at 555.
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Id, at 557.
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Id, at 553.
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C. Rungie and P. Burns, A Review of INC - a programme for placing young offenders in the community as an alteniative to secure care (SA Dept for Community Welfare, 1983) at 10.
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Id, at 7.
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Id, at 7-8.
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S.84, Rileys Inner City Youth Advocacy Service (NSW), at 2.
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Id, at 3.
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Id, at 4.
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Id, at 10.
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M. O'Neil, National Youth Coalition for Housing, Transcript at 1074.
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D. Otto, Youth Accommodation Coalition (Vic), Transcript at 905.
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J. Chisholm, Youthcare, Anglicare (Tas), Transcript at 1499.
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The Community Tenancy Scheme Report, (NSW Housing Commission, 1984) at 4.
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Id, at 47.
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Id, at 37.
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S.1200, NSW Government, at 7.
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S.77, Youth Accommodation Coalition (Vic), Appendix 10.
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Adverse reaction from the community to youth refuges is a common occurrence. It is one of the reasons we believe community involvement in youth support and accommodation services is essential - and the present refuge model seriously deficient.
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P. Beyers, Housing and Young People's Outreach, Transcript at 1450.
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Ibid.
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During 1986, 56% of HYPO's registrations were from young women and 44% from young men. This contrasts markedly with Gateway's experience where only 5% of residents were female and 95% male: The H.Y.P.O. Recipe, (Cwth Department of Community Services and Health, IYSH National Focal Point, 1987) at 13.
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See, eg, S.77, Youth Accommodation Coalition (Vic), Appendix 9, at 48.
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Kelly and Sewell, op cit, at 8.
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Id, at 23.
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Id, at 28.
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S.117, Youth Accommodation and Supervision Scheme, Barwon Region (Vic), at 3.
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A Community Development Approach to Homeless Youth (unpublished HREOC document, 1988).
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Id, at 7.
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Id, at 27.
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Id, at 32-33.
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S.117, Youth Accommodation and Supervision Scheme, Barvvon Region (Vic), at 2.
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Kelly and Sewell, op cit. at 33-34.
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As Kelly and Sewell set out, such a project is:
• not remedial -- the most damaged young people and chronically transient young people require highly specialised and focussed attention;
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often short-lived — despite all the energy, effort and goodwill that goes towards setting up a community development program, changed circumstances, including changes of individuals, can sometimes change everything;
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problematic with regard to quality control — while the community can demonstrate the very best responses, it can also demonstrate the very worst. In spite of efforts to build in State and regional level support for local workers, these structures do not always ensure quality control; and
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vulnerable — to criticism and abolition by government: id, at 34.
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The Chairman of the Inquiry inspected the program and had discussions with the senior staff.
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Monthly monitoring evaluations are conducted by the District of Columbia Department of Human Services.
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These 'savings' are, of course, savings in relative terms. The relevant comparison is the potential cost of failing to address the problem of youth homelessness effectively, an issue which we canvass in Chapter 7, The Costs of Youth Homelessness.
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See generally, Chapter 2, Government Responses to Youth Homelessness, and Chapter 15, Youth Supported Accommodation Programmes
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