Safe & Connected Youth Program

The Safe & Connected Youth Program works with children and their families to improve parent-child relationships and family functioning to reduce the risk of homelessness.

The S&CY Program values restoration, reunification and reconciliation.

About the Program

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.  

Key Features of the Program

  • Easily accessible at no cost;
  • Accommodation support (Ruby’s House);
  • Trauma-informed;
  • Therapeutic intervention;
  • Mediation prep sessions;
  • Communication and conflict coaching;
  • Family mediation;
  • Family counselling;
  • Preservation and reunification of young people and their families;
  • Improve relationships between parents and their children;
  • Empower young people to develop their full potential as individuals;
  • Reduce family conflict;
  • Improve family functioning and wellbeing;
  • Reduce the risk of youth homelessness.

Anyone who wants access to the program for themselves or someone they know experiencing conflict, can call CRS on (02) 6189 0590 or fill out the form following the Referral link below.