Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2016) Vulnerable young people: interactions across homelessness, youth justice and child protection: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2015, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 10 June 2023.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2016). Vulnerable young people: interactions across homelessness, youth justice and child protection: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2015. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Vulnerable young people: interactions across homelessness, youth justice and child protection: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2015. AIHW, 2016.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Vulnerable young people: interactions across homelessness, youth justice and child protection: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2015. Canberra: AIHW; 2016.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2016, Vulnerable young people: interactions across homelessness, youth justice and child protection: 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2015, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report reveals that individuals who experience multiple, cross-sector services in the specialist homelessness, protection or youth justice service areas are a particularly vulnerable group. Clients experiencing 2 or more of these services were more likely than specialist homelessness services-only clients: to report having substance use issues; to report having mental health issues; to have an over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and to receive more days of support and more support periods from specialist homelessness services agencies.
Vulnerable young people, such as those with a history of traumatic family experiences or involvement in the criminal justice system, are more likely than their peers to experience homelessness. In an effort to better understand the characteristics of these vulnerable children and young people, data were linked from the Specialist Homelessness Services Collection for the period 2011–12 to 2014–15, the Child Protection National Minimum Data Set for 2013–14 and the Juvenile Justice National Minimum Data Set for 2011–12 to 2013–14.
From this linked data set, 3 matched cohorts were identified—the specialist homelessness service and child protection (SHS-CP) cohort, the specialist homelessness service and youth justice (SHS-YJ) cohort and the specialist homelessness service, child protection and youth justice (SHS-CP-YJ) cohort—as well as 3 corresponding SHS-only cohorts for comparison.
The analysis examined the demographics, personal circumstances, service provision and housing outcomes of the 3 matched cohorts and their equivalent SHS-only client cohorts. It showed that individuals in all 3 cohorts experienced multiple levels of disadvantage, at greater levels than the SHS-only clients. All matched cohorts were more likely than their SHS-only comparison groups to:
Preliminary material: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations
End matter: Glossary; References; List of tables; List of figures; Related publications
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