through intensive group therapy. 13, 14 Mental health disorders also put individuals at greater risk of intentional self-harm and suicide, with suicide accounting for one third of all deaths among young people aged 15-24 years, making it the leading cause of death for this age cohort.15 Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing in the persons social or family environment. (Most of them don’t end up getting a custodial sentence at trial, often because they’ve served so much time already.)
Fewer than 2% of young Victorians aged 10-17 are alleged by police to have committed a crime.
Services include crisis Long periods spent on remand are associated with worse behaviour – and around half the young people in youth justice centres are there on remand. Victoria’s 10-year Mental health plan outlines our vision for all Victorians to experience their best possible mental health. Statistics from Lifeline also show people across the country are struggling with their mental health. to adolescents who display substantial and prolonged psychological disturbance, Over 65,000 Australians make a suicide attempt each year. Meanwhile, youth justice centres are under strain, due to staff shortages, damaged infrastructure, large remand numbers, and the high needs of the young people. Specialist child and adolescent mental health services are provided for components - May 2005 (PDF file 91KB), Send Overall rates of supervision varied among the states and territories, from 11 per 10,000 in Victoria to 61 per 10,000 in the Northern Territory. In the mean time, we need to direct young people away from crime as early as possible, by enshrining youth diversion in legislation and providing long-term resourcing for initiatives like the Youth Diversion Pilot Program. 63% have been victims of trauma, abuse and neglect, 45% have been on a previous child protection order, and 19% are on to a current order, 62% have been suspended or expelled from school, 30% present with mental health problems, and 18% have a history of self-harm, 11% are registered with Disability Services, and 24% have ‘issues concerning their intellectual functioning’, 40% of young people in youth justice centres had a parent or sibling with a history of imprisonment, ROPES pre-plea diversion program for first-time offenders – 88%, Right Step pre-plea diversion program for young people at risk of repeated offending – 61%, Youth Justice Group Conferencing pre-sentence diversion program (Jesuit Social Services) – 80%, High ratios of well qualified staff, able to prevent and de-escalate crises, Infrastructure which enables young people to live in small, safe, well-supported groups, A strong emphasis on positive, respectful relationships, High quality education and vocational training, with employment pathways, Evidence-based therapeutic interventions for issues like drug use, mental illness, trauma and violent behaviours. In 2018, 3,046 Australians took their own life. They can be unsettled, anxious, bored or angry. behaviours. Hyperactivity, nightmares, fearfulness, bed-wetting, language problems, The following statistics can be confronting, behind every number is a human life. Each year, over 1 million Australians reach out to Lifeline for support. early intervention and prevention designed to reduce the prevalence and Lifeline is here to listen. services to other community agencies and service providers. Prevention is better than cure. The Ministry of Children and Family Development's Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) teams located across B.C. Of the 5,694 young people under youth justice supervision on an average day in 2018–19, most were male (80%) and supervised in the community (84%). Young people from 16 to 18 years of For each life lost to suicide, the impacts are felt by up to 135 people, including family members, work colleagues, friends, first responders at the time of death. The suicide rate in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is twice that of their non-Indigenous counterparts.