The project was a collaboration with young people (12-25 years), schools, NGOs, government agencies and community stakeholders to co-design locally tailored community action plans to prevent YSVA. The project aimed to create tailored community action plans to: (1) Increase young people’s awareness & knowledge about safe & healthy relationships (2) Strengthen personal & online safety (3) Reduce the risk of YSVA, and (4) Build capacity of local support services to recognise & respond to YSVA. Underpinned by a community-led development approach, the long-term vision for this project is to enhance the safety and wellbeing of young people in these local communities.

Impact

Community action plans for both communities have been endorsed by local community members, Elders, and young people. The Department is now funding the implementation and evaluation of these community action plans over the next 2 years.

Publicacion

Rundle-Thiele, S., Willmott, T., McKillop, N., Ruiz, P, & Kitunen, A. (2024). Young Voices United: Co-designing a place-based youth sexual and violence abuse prevention approach for one Australian community. Safer Communities: A journal on crime, crime prevention and community safety. DOI: 10.1108/SC-09-2022-0039