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Big Picture Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE - According to
a 2004 ABS survey indigenous youth were 1.9 times more likely than
non-indigenous youth to leave school before graduation; however, this was a
significant improvement over the previous 5 years. Although Aboriginal adults
represented only 2.2 percent of the adult population, according to the ABS
they accounted for approximately 21 percent of the total prison population
and were imprisoned at 11 times the rate of non-indigenous persons as of June
2004, down from 15 times the non-indigenous rate in 2002. More than 45
percent of Aboriginal men between the ages of 20 and 30 years had been
arrested at some time in their lives. In 2003 Aboriginal juveniles accounted
for 47 percent of those between the ages of 10 to 17 in juvenile correctional
institutions. Human rights observers noted that socioeconomic conditions gave
rise to the common precursors of indigenous crime, including unemployment,
homelessness, and boredom. Indigenous groups charged that
police harassment of indigenous people, including juveniles, was pervasive
and that racial discrimination by police and prison custodians persisted.
Human rights groups and indigenous people alleged a pattern of mistreatment
and arbitrary arrests occurring against a backdrop of unofficial yet systemic
discrimination. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [51] The Committee welcomes the
various efforts of the State party to reduce suicide among youth in recent
years, but it remains concerned that the youth suicide rate is still high,
especially among indigenous children and homeless adolescents, and that
mental health problems and substance abuse are increasing. [65] While the Committee welcomes
the information that the State party is seriously considering the issue of
youth homelessness, including by means of the National Homelessness Strategy
and the “Reconnect” program, it wishes to express concern at the situation of
homeless children, who are also more likely to be affected by educational and
relational problems and are more exposed to substance abuse and sexual
exploitation. 300
street kids at risk of abuse At least
300 street children in Adelaide and "large numbers" in regional
cities and country towns are vulnerable to sexual abuse, the head of the
Commission of Inquiry into Children in State Care said today. Former Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan,
QC, says there has been "a long history" in Adelaide of street
children – many of them runaways from state care – being exploited for sexual
favours. He
lists well-known haunts as Veale Gardens, the banks of the Torrens River and
a public lavatory near Jolley's Boathouse
restaurant. Gang culture in our schools1 "These kids are not yet organised, but if somebody with some real gang
experience, an older person who wants to move drugs or weapons, gets a hold
of these kids and organises them, that's when
Brisbane's going to have a problem."
I can tell you this, this is already happening. Homelessness among young people in Australia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The study found that young
people see their relations with parents, or other parent figures as central
to their capacity to remain at home. Young people indicated they principally
left home because of conflict with parents, various forms of abuse, because
they were kicked out, and/or because of drug and alcohol related issues.
Themes of a lack of felt emotional support, a culture of blame, and
unresolved grief and loss pervade the accounts of these young people. Young
people suggested that well in advance of home leaving occurring, there needs
to be improved parental and adult attitudes and behaviours
to them, greater understanding of the impact of new parental partners on
them, a halt to abuse, and early access to third party facilitation of
communication. Living Rough: Preventing Crime and Victimization Among Homeless Young People [PDF] APPENDIX 1 - CASE STUDIES –
INTRODUCTION - As
part of profiling successful practices and strategies currently being
undertaken to prevent crime and victimisation,
contact was made with a wide range of agencies working in the areas of
homelessness and crime prevention.
Following considerable contact with agencies and individuals, 28
projects were selected as examples of good practice. To build a profile of what might be
considered good practice in this area, 22 agency visits and six telephone
interviews were undertaken across Australia.
The critical aim of the visits and interviews was to document programs
which make a difference in the prevention of crime and victimisation
of homeless/at risk young people. Following the visits and interviews,
services were then contacted by fax and telephone to review and comment on
the case studies before inclusion in the report. The following section provides a
description of the model of service and service objectives of each case
study, how they are making a difference, what outcomes demonstrate this, best
practice principles underpinning projects (as articulated in Section 5), how
they are evaluated, and whether the model could be replicated in other
contexts. "Two things happened when I
turned 12, my Father who used to beat the hell out of us left home and the
other thing that happened is I started using drugs... One of my friends said
'Here try this it will make you feel better', and it did. When I turned 13, my Mum found a new
partner who lived at home with us. He raped me regularly and abused my
younger sisters as well. I was only 13. Jazmin was raised by her alcoholic
father for the first eight years of her life and foster parents until she was
12 years old. She ran away from foster
care to escape a foster father who was violent. Living on the streets using whatever drugs
or alcohol she could get her hands on to escape her pain, Jazmin
was using heavily when she became pregnant at 15. I'm 26 years old and have lived on
the streets since I was 6 years old. A year ago I moved into Rebecca’s
Community 'Hospitality House.' This website chronicles my life journey
through foster care, homelessness, drug addiction, prison and my new life off
drugs and off the streets. Sydney’s Street Kids Get Connected The project aims
to provide the homeless and disadvantaged with access to computers and free
Internet access. It will also provide meals for those using the Café. The project is the brainchild of Salvation
Army Oasis Youth Support Network and the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove. Tech Pacific was also instrumental in
gathering local IT support to build the Street Level Internet Café. Street
Kids Produce Hip Range Of ‘Speakout’ Streetwear With Help Of Commonwealth "Speakout
is a remarkable success story. All of their products have been designed,
produced, packaged and marketed by young people who have overcome personal
setbacks or difficult situations in their lives." Dr Kemp said. "These young people may have been
street kids, homeless or long-term unemployed who took up the chance to get nationally
accredited training certificates in office work, screen printing or garment
production at Speakout." 39,000 young people aged
between 12 and 25 are homeless in Australia on any one given night. Saving street kids:
Fr Chris honored Without significant government
funding, Youth Off The Streets has become one of the largest youth services
in Youth Off
The Streets - Outreach Services Youth philosophy is taken directly
to its target group of homeless and abused youth - to the streets of 1.
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