The Safe and Connected Youth Program (SACY) provides children and young people aged between 8-15 years and their families with targeted support to improve family functioning and reduce the risks and harms of family breakdown. The program works with children and young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness to improve parent-child and parent-parent relationships using a child centred, family focused approach.   

 The program emphasises preservation, restoration, reunification and reconciliation between children/young people and their families. Young people and families engaged in the program have access to a multidisciplinary team of family mediators, therapeutic case managers, family counsellors and therapeutic youth workers. This therapeutic team works holistically with the child/young person and family to provide intensive, trauma informed support. The program has two components, an early intervention element for young people who are experiencing family conflict but still able to stay at home; and a reunification component, for young people who are experiencing episodic homelessness or are on the cusp of becoming homeless.