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Our system change work is breaking down barriers! Justice 4 Housing’s Policy Recommendation #1, is to allow people on parole or probation access to subsidized housing. Last year, Justice 4 Housing successfully reunited three second-degree lifers with their families and children by securing public housing for them. By providing access to housing, we help break the cycle of recidivism and support the successful reintegration of individuals into the community. We ask that you leave a public comment on the new proposed HUD Rules, which mirror our Far From Home Policy Recommendations. To do so, follow the instructions below: 1. Go to the following address to view the Proposed Rule: https://lnkd.in/e5RkYasc 2. After reading the Proposed Rule changes, click the green “SUBMIT A FORMAL COMMENT” button at the top of the page. Stay tuned for more policy recommendations from our Far From Home Report! #DeCriminalizeHousing #Justice4Housing

The school-to-prison pipeline is a disturbing national trend in which children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these students have learning disabilities or have difficult home lives because of poverty, abuse, or neglect and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished, and pushed out. #education #mentalhealth #children #oregon https://lnkd.in/dfVwTMuE

The Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) report Exiting youth detention (https://lnkd.in/gcqf-jXT) finds that kids in Queensland's youth justice system have the same dreams as all children: a job, a home, love, and children of their own one day. But from a young age they also feel unwanted, feared, hated and regarded with suspicion by their communities. These negative beliefs can profoundly affect how they act and lead to predicted outcomes being realised.    What if we had a system where instead of putting children into watchhouses because they acted out, children from complex circumstances and their families received the support they needed to thrive?   You can help realise that change. Email the Premier and ask him to stop imprisoning Queensland kids in watch houses. https://lnkd.in/g_dtPsrV

54% of all children cautioned or sentenced for a serious violence offence are known to social care and have the "Child in Need" designation. It is not difficult to identify children and young people who are most likely to commit serious violent offences using this information and local intelligence. It is not difficult to share this data between education, health and justice sectors. It is not difficult to divert these life trajectories with effective early interventions to prevent critical first offences. It is not difficult to make significant short term financial savings to fully fund this activity. However, it is proving very difficult to make this happen quickly enough. In the 12 months to March 2023, 78 young people aged under 25 were murdered with a knife or sharp object. Ten of these victims were aged under 16. https://lnkd.in/efaf7WWH https://lnkd.in/eG3J2Wnx

Thanks to QCOSS and Queensland Family and Child Commission (QFCC) for promoting this issue. I love this because I think it draws our attention to the fundamental causes of this issue not just the effects. I appreciate that the dominant culture obsesses on the individual and, like left-over medieval theologians, is enraptured with a hierarchical ontology whereby the individual, created in the image of God, is placed at the paramount causal centre of the Universe, so that all things flow from, and are connected to, the individual, or more accurately, the individual mind, to the exclusion of all the other more inconvenient, more profoundly causal, social relationships, who's causality has little to do with any particular individual's mind or morals, such as class, ageism, inequity or race, or the rest of the manifold narcissistic and alienating progeny of this hyper-individualism. Consequently, I love this because it draws our attention to the breakdown of healthy community cultures, community cohesion, and an inclusive and caring communitarianism. It shifts responsibility for all of us to see the problem for what it largely is, a social problem, and act accordingly by critically reflecting on our own hyper-individualism, within critical discursive communities, and then adding our own collective efforts, to nurture kind and caring communities - in our own communities and others. Therefore, I feel, yes, younger people need every single one of us to call for change AND we all need to change.

Today we have released our literature review on the non-payment and underpayment of child support as economic abuse against women and children. The literature reveals extensive evidence of the way fathers are using child support as a weapon to perpetrate ongoing gendered violence against mothers. Urgent reforms are needed to ensure fathers cannot continue to avoid paying child support, while women and children are forced to live in poverty and bear the burden of pursuing payments with limited access to legal assistance. 👉🏼 Access the report here: https://lnkd.in/gRWSkJPw

Dear Premier Steven Miles, If you are serious about keeping Queensland’s communities safe, you must get Queensland children out of adult watchhouses immediately. Putting children in watchhouses does not keep our community safe. Children who go into watchhouses are not rehabilitated; they reoffend. 80% of Queensland children who are sentenced to detention are back in the youth justice system within the year. There are more children in watchhouses right now then there have been for the past five years. Children are being locked up for crimes as menial as stealing food because they are hungry and can’t get food at home. Children in watchhouses are being physically and sexually abused. We know that children in watchhouses are often deprived of fresh air or sunlight. More than half of children who enter the youth justice system come from households that experience domestic and family violence, a third have unmet housing needs, and a third have disabilities or mental health issues. Because of these factors they have overwhelmingly disengaged from school and many are using substances. What these children need is safe accommodation and wrap around services to get them back into stable homes and school. The Queensland Police Union has warned that if overcrowding in watchhouses continues, a child is going to die. As a Queenslander, I find these facts unconscionable. Queenslanders should be able to expect a government that can keep our community safe, uphold victims’ rights and treat children humanely. Yours sincerely, Dave Foreman https://lnkd.in/gkRSGDQj Change the Record

What a moment! The literature review is here. It highlights the need for a national conversation on the systems that enable the non-payment of child support. Non-payment, underpayment, and delayed payment of child support must be nationally recognised as a form of economic abuse. The impacts of which push through generations. Please read and share. With Jilly Field

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The latest evaluation of our Transition Support Service (TSS) found it’s creating a positive change for young people in terms of employment, income and more favourable justice sector outcomes. By the age of 19, TSS participants were less likely to have any Prison/Remand facility, or Community Service Correction sentences. This service starts from when young people are in care (including while they are in a care and protection or a youth justice residence) and provides support up until their 25th birthday. Click the link below to read more about what young people are saying and how the service is making a difference for them: tinyurl.com/bp7dzj27