CatholicCare - Roma

What We Deliver

• CatholicCare’s fully qualified case workers provide Bail Support Activities that provide court advocacy to support young people to:

§ Engage with families and provide assistance with transport to and from court for young people and families where required.

§ Assist with diversionary referrals for non-youth justice clients to relevant supporting services.

§ Provide updates to court staff about on-going compliance and attendance in programs for all clients.

§ Providing support where required for young people and families to access accommodation, treatment and/ or specialised support, education and development activities.

• CatholicCare’s fully qualified case workers provide Case Management support to young people on bail to:

§ Assess and reduce the level of risk of reoffending for young people

§ Develop individual bail support plans for clients that accepted/ agree to participate in the program.

§ engage with youth justice staff and provide regular updates and participate in regular review meetings.

• CatholicCare collaborates with a range of organisations, referral partners and community leaders for the Coordination of community youth support to assist with:

§ Physical and Mental Health assessments

§ Positive Social activities – culturally appropriate

§ Education referrals as required

§ Housing referrals as required

§ Addiction referrals as required

• Goals of Youth Bail Support Program

• Our goal is to work with the young people to make positive changes in their lives, such as:
  • Improved cultural connectedness
  • Improved family/kin relationships
  • Improved participation in learning
  • Improved participation in employment
  • Improved housing situation

• Our Youth Bail Support Program helps to ensure that young people will have:
  • Improved chances of being granted bail
  • Improved capacity to meet their conditions of bail
  • Increased strengths and wellbeing
  • Families contributing to help reduce offences in future

• Eligibility Criteria

• The person, people or families (where appropriate) receiving support must meet the following criteria to receive support:
  • Be involved in the Youth Justice system
  • Have committed or are alleged to have committed an offence
  • Are remanded in custody or at risk of remand due, in part, to lack of positive support in their community
  • Are exiting detention from a period of remand and are at risk of returning to detention
  • Are appearing in court on offences and are at risk of being remanded in custody
  • Have been granted bail and require support to meet the conditions of bail