Page 1632 - Week 04 - Thursday, 25 March 2010
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been positive outcomes for young people engaged in tutoring. The Aboriginal Justice Service and Aboriginal Legal Services, Prisoner Support Officer attends Bimberi on a regular basis to make contact with young people who identify as Aboriginal and Gugan Gulwan Aboriginal Corporation attends Bimberi to provide classes in Aboriginal Art.
h) The Youth Support Program through the Office for Children, Youth and Family Support fund Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation to provide a support service targeted at Indigenous youth aged 12 to 25 years who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging with education. The service is based at Gugan Gulwan Youth Centre in Erindale, but also provides outreach support through a variety of stakeholders and partnerships across the ACT. The support program provides young people with case management that identifies and meets both the personal and educational support needs of individual young people with an emphasis on assisting the young people to reengage with education or training.
(2) Of the programs described in part (1), literacy and numeracy support, Indigenous Education Officers and Indigenous Education Workers are wholly funded by the ACT Government. The Indigenous Student Aspirations program is a budget initiative completely funded by the ACT Government.
Schools as Communities, Youth Connection, the Adolescent Day Unit, the Youth Support Program and educational support programs at Bimberi are funded by the ACT Government.
Funds provided through the National Education Agreement include elements from the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme and the supplementary assistance program previously funded by the Commonwealth under the Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program.
(3) The answer to question (3) is no.
(4) The Office for Children Youth and Family Support currently work with young people who have disengaged or are at risk of disengaging from education through the Youth Connection program. This program provides an outreach case management service that works with young people and their families to assist them to reengage in education and training.
In regard to young people who have become involved in the criminal justice system and are disengaged from education, Youth Connection case managers work in concert with the young person’s Youth Justice case managers to assist them to obtain their educational goals and reduce their risk of recidivism.
When the young person is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Youth Connection also works with the OCYFS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit to support young people to reengage with education by working to develop family and community supports, which addresses their educational needs. Bimberi Youth Justice Centre also has an identified Aboriginal case manager who works with young people in conjunction with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services and family and kin members.
In cases where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are disengaged from school and have become involved with the criminal justice system, the Office for Children Youth and Family Support may assemble a care team of case managers from
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