• Part Time - 68 Hours per fortnight
• SCHCADS Level 4
• Location: Coffs Harbour NSW

Social Futures is a voice for social change in regional Australia, helping to create connected, resilient communities. With more than 40 years’ industry experience, we are a community service leader, striving to create change through our work across homelessness and housing supports, youth and family services, sector advocacy and programs that promote genuine participation for people with disability. Social Futures currently serves more than 80% of regional New South Wales.

Social Futures is proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace and is committed to ensuring we have a safe and respectful workplace for all. We acknowledge that all people can be victims of violence and that all violence is unacceptable. The White Ribbon Committee is focused on addressing men’s violence towards women because of the underlying power inequality and sexism that sustains gender-based violence and the disproportionately high prevalence of this type of violence in the community.

Purpose of the Position

Social Futures looking for an enthusiastic and committed person to join our Youth on track Team in Coffs Harbour. Youth on Track is a diversionary scheme for 10-17 year olds that identifies and responds to young offenders at risk of long term involvement in the criminal justice system. Key objectives of Youth on Track include engaging and supporting young people and their families to:

• Voluntarily participate in the early intervention program
• Engage with education, training and/or employment
• Participate in assessments of needs in order to develop case plans
• Access mainstream health, mental health and wellbeing services
• Engage with the broader community to support their successful transition into independence

This position requires well developed skills and knowledge of relevant interventions which may assist vulnerable Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people and their families and people from diverse cultures and communities to reengage with both family and community connections. Service provision includes outreach to smaller town centres within the catchment.