Evidence-based interventions to assist youth at risk

Reason supports:

• legislation to increase leaving out-of-home care age to 21 years
• increase the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years
• increase funding for diversion and early intervention in youth criminal justice, including restorative justice approaches
• youth justice facilities that address the underpinning causes of offending, based on Spain’s Diagrama model
• investment in youth drug rehabilitation programs
• urgent responses to meet youth community needs in outer high-growth suburbs
• access to culturally safe reproductive health care 
• access to free menstruation supplies.