OzChild provides School Focused Youth Services (SFYS) staff in the Gippsland region to foster positive school-community partnerships and programs for young people at-risk. The programs help develop resilience and well-being with staff working alongside school personnel and other agencies. Brokerage funding is available through this initiative. Contact us here for further information.

The School Focused Youth Service is designed to support effective links between the primary prevention work done by school-based support services within the education sector and the early intervention provided by the community sector.

The focus of the initiative is the co-ordination of preventative and early intervention strategies for young people, to be delivered through school and community clusters.

Developing these linkages between community agencies and schools enables identification of service gaps, development of strategies to respond to those gaps and the provision of a continuum of service intervention.

To find out more about SFYS visit the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development website and follow the links to School Focused Youth Services.

Geographical reach

Gippsland regions only

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