Community-based Crime Action grants

Picabeen Community Association

The Picabeen Bright Futures Project offers two 8-week programs for young people aged 12–18 engaged with or at risk of youth justice involvement. The sessions focus on work readiness skills, including Construction Skills Cards and RSA certification, and incorporate wellbeing activities like mindful martial arts and self-care crafting.
Location: North Brisbane

Redcliffe Area Youth Space Incorporated

Project Valkyrie employs a female case manager to support young women aged 12–18 impacted by domestic violence and crime in the Redcliffe area. The role offers psychoeducation on safe relationships, one-on-one support, and family safety planning, while facilitating mothers and peer support groups. Weekly workshops and safety planning sessions aim to empower participants with skills for healthy relationships and personal safety.
Location: Moreton Bay

Redcliffe Area Youth Space Incorporated

Stronger Connections employs a Traditional Owner and experienced youth worker to provide crime prevention through cultural connection, case management, and diversionary activities for disengaged young men aged 10–13. The program includes physical sports, cultural workshops, life-skills training, and male mentoring, focusing on outreach, family support, and community development. The initiative aims to reduce offending through culturally relevant programming and collaboration with local agencies.
Location: Moreton Bay

Thirve and Connect

The Coastal Connector program offers 20 days of fishing and outdoor activities to build social and emotional skills for males aged 10–13 in Far North Queensland. Held over the Christmas/New Year period, the program includes fishing, adventure, mentorship, and self-awareness activities, with a focus on safety and positive role models. It aims to enhance teamwork, leadership, and personal growth, culminating in a graduation ceremony.
Location: Cairns

Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council Auspice for Wendy Wust

Our Learning, Our Way is a cultural arts and wellbeing program for Kowanyama young people aged 10–17 focusing on traditional and contemporary arts. The project includes a cultural arts camp with workshops led by community Elders and artists, aimed at developing cultural skills, enhancing self-esteem, and strengthening community ties. Participants engage in arts, crafts, storytelling, and wellbeing activities, with resources for camping and transport provided.
Location: Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire

Conservatorium Friends, Mackay Inc

The Choices Applied Theatre Project uses a comic format to deliver harm minimisation messages to Year 12 students across 20 Central Queensland schools. CQUniversity theatre students address road safety, substance abuse, sexual consent, and domestic violence, reaching up to 2,500 students through pop culture references to enhance safety awareness.
Location: Mackay

Family and Childrens Emerging Support Services Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation

My Connect provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and families at risk of youth justice involvement. The program builds identity and resilience through traditional activities and community engagement, offering tailored plans, mentoring, and educational workshops to enhance community safety.
Location: Mackay

Community Gro Inc

Garbutt Youth Hub offers a safe space for young people aged 10–17 after school hours and on weekends, providing social and educational activities, meals, and transport. It engages up to 25 youth each night, mainly First Nations but open to all at-risk young people, supporting skill development and healthy relationships to reduce reoffending.
Location: Townsville

Central Queensland Indigenous Development

Youth Yarnz After Dark provides a culturally safe space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 10–17 to connect with peers and build cultural and social ties. Operating after school hours from Thursday to Saturday, it features cultural activities, social events, and team building challenges, aiming to strengthen social and cultural connections, and improve life skills.
Location: Fraser Coast region

Metal Masterpieces

The Forge AHEAD program engages at-risk young people in blacksmithing to cultivate creativity, discipline, and personal growth. Through hands-on workshops, mentorship from an experience blacksmith, community showcases, and counselling support, the program fosters skill development, life skills, and positive engagement to reduce criminal involvement.
Location: Gympie region

Capricornia Training Company Ltd

The Revamp and Ride Youth Bike Program in Rockhampton diverts at-risk young people aged 12–15 from offending through bicycle repair and refurbishment. It offers workshops to build vocational skills, self-esteem, and positive relationships with culturally appropriate guidance from local Mob Mentors. Activities include bike customisation, maintenance workshops, and community rides.
Location: Rockhampton region

Every Child Central Queensland Auspice for Our Space

Creating Safe Children provides education and support to young people aged 10–14 to prevent involvement in domestic violence relationships and criminal activities. Facilitated by professionals in neuro-linguistic programming and toxic masculinity prevention, the program runs separate, gender-responsive sessions to develop health relationship habits and understanding.
Location: Rockhampton region

Have Heart Pty Ltd

The Flame Project delivers 4 x 10–12 week therapeutic arts programs aimed at preventing vandalism and engaging young people at risk of involvement with Youth Justice or Queensland Police. Participants aged 12–17 will use graffiti-based art to develop self-expression, emotional regulation, and career exploration skills, culminating in a community art piece.
Location: Sunshine Coast

Teens Take Control Inc (TTC)

TTC's Building Better Men is an early intervention program for young males aged 12–14 on the Sunshine Coast at risk of engaging with the youth justice system. Starting in term 2, 2025, it offers individualised mentorship and practical services to build confidence, social skills, and wellbeing. Over 6 months, participants will develop life skills and resilience in a supportive environment.
Location: Sunshine Coast

Bayside Adolescent Boarding Inc

The BABI Youth Drop-In project provides a safe space for young people aged 12–17 in Wynnum, Manly, and the Bayside area to access services, focusing on supportive relationships and life skills through 3 weekly sessions. It includes workshops on mental health, emotional regulation, cultural pride, and social skills, emphasising resilience and access to opportunities across 2 school terms, with additional activities in December and January.
Location: South Brisbane

Micah Projects Ltd

Supporting young women aged 13–17 at risk of using violence in family relationships, this program offers weekly group sessions and one-on-one support. Participants learn about healthy relationships, receive psychosocial education, and access and transport to comprehensive services, including practical activities in hospitality settings and family engagement.
Location: South Brisbane

Gold Coast Youth Service Inc

Care Coordination provides early intervention by assisting young people and their families in navigating agency referrals and engaging in pro-social activities. Building on the Street CRED program, it reduces service fatigue by managing multiple agency involvement and connecting families and young people to suitable service and activities to prevent withdrawal of engagement and keeping young people out of trouble.
Location: Gold Coast

Happy Mindful Souls Pty Ltd

The Happy Mindful Souls program delivers an 8-week Uprize initiative for 12 young people aged 12–17, focusing on goal setting, mental health, and wellbeing. It runs alongside the Upskill work-readiness program for ages 14+ and the HMS touch football team, providing workshops and mentoring to support mental health and development.
Location: Gold Coast

Lives Lived Well Limited

Street CRED is an assertive outreach initiative operating on Thursday evenings across the Gold Coast. It involves youth workers, police, and child safety officers collaborating to connect with vulnerable or at-risk young people, providing immediate support and referrals to prevent antisocial behaviour, aiming to guide them towards positive life choices.
Location: Gold Coast

Murra Pathways Pty Ltd

Murra Pathways provides specialised workshops for Indigenous students in Years 10 to 12 on the Gold Coast, focusing on essential employability skills through a person-centred and culturally safe approach. The program connects students with work experience, school-based traineeships and apprenticeships, and employment opportunities to enhance qualifications and career readiness.
Location: Gold Coast

Australian School of Entrepreneurship

The YERR Program supports 10 young people aged 13–16 who are engaged, or at risk of engaging, in the youth justice system in Logan over 18 weeks with life skills workshops, building projects, and mentoring. It includes a 10-week intensive phase and 8 weeks of one-on-one mentoring, aiming to reduce recidivism and improve employment prospects. Participants can bring a sibling or friend every second Saturday to address intergenerational cycles.
Location: Logan

Gunya Meta

The Healing Our Families program offers a trauma-informed journey for First Nations young people in Logan over 10 weeks with 2 sessions each week. Participants engage in culturally sensitive workshops led by Elders, focusing on trauma understanding, personal stories, healthy relationships, and self-care, aiming to break trauma cycles and empower positive change.
Location: Logan

Kingston East Neighbourhood Group Inc (KENG)

KENG's Youth Wellness Program at Tudor Park supports young people aged 8–12, referred from PCYC's Project Booyah, with advocacy, referrals, and engaging activities in a safe environment. The program offers one-on-one support from dedicated youth workers using a trauma-informed approach, focusing on mental wellbeing, positive relationships, and early intervention to prevent extremist behaviours and long-term mental illness.
Location: Logan

Beyond Behaviour Community Services Pty Ltd ATF Beyond Behaviour Family Trust

The Y-M-Power Project aims to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people's overrepresentation in the youth justice system through culturally safe, trauma-informed support in partnership with Kirrawe Aboriginal Corporation and Empower 4 Solutions. Over 8–12 weeks, the project includes in-home sessions, cultural camps, and caregiver training for up to 60 young people and their families, focusing on tailored interventions to improve outcomes.
Location: South Brisbane

Queensland Blue Light Association Incorporated

Blue Lures engages at-risk young people aged 8–17 through fishing to build positive relationships and support personal development. The program fosters community engagement, personal growth, and respect, providing necessary equipment and education to become responsible anglers in a safe, inclusive environment. Participants learn new skills, appreciate the outdoors, and build connections with peers and police.
Location: Balonne Shire

Horse Whispering Youth Program Inc

The Early Intervention for Disengaged Youth Project offers 4 x 10-week Equine Assisted Learning Programs, across 4 terms, for at-risk young people aged 10–16 in Ipswich. The project focuses on improving self-awareness, communication, and emotional regulation through structured horse activities, with community service staff providing support.
Location: Ipswich

The Trustee for Three Little Birds Trust

The Pathway to Purpose Project offers events and programs for young people aged 12–17 in Ipswich, focusing on positive activities and mentorship for crime prevention. It features the REKON Youth Program with sports and group activities, an Introduction to Barbering event, and Everything Barbering workshops providing practical skills and mentorship. The project promotes engagement and personal development in a supportive environment.
Location: Ipswich

Borrumpah Goupong Aboriginal Corporation

The Cultural Mentoring program engages young people aged 12–17 through a youth camp in Ipswich to boost self-esteem and community ties by connecting with land, culture, and identity. It includes mental health support, skills training, and job readiness, serving at-risk youth, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth and those from diverse backgrounds.
Location: Ipswich

Queensland Blue Light Association Incorporated

Blue EDGE is an 8-week program for young people aged 12–17 at Lowood State High School, aimed at improving relationships between disengaged young people and police through physical activities and motivational sessions. It includes twice-weekly 90-minute sessions before school, with fitness, breakfast, and guest speaker presentations, culminating in a final session of physical challenges to celebrate achievements. The program enhances attitudes towards police, school, and community, while building teamwork, resilience, leadership, self-confidence, and adaptability.
Location: Ipswich

Adam Wenitong Adapt Mentorship

Changing the Narrative is a 16-week mentorship program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people aged 10–17. It offers weekly Street Outreach in addition to weekly gender-specific workshops to build social and emotional wellbeing, prevent crime, and enhance community safety through activities such as Streetfooty, Rhythm to Recovery, mindfulness, creative arts, and photography, culminating in a gallery exhibition.
Location: Toowoomba

Multicultural Australia

The One Under the Sun program delivers 10 facilitated workshops to bridge cultural gaps and foster understanding to support First Nations and Yazidi students in Years 5 and 6. It includes site visits for cultural history exchanges and 8 workshops featuring traditional art, dance, music, food, and storytelling, aiming to improve cultural respect and life skills.
Location: Toowoomba

Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts

The Camp provides young people with access to performing arts opportunities, training, and educational experiences 3 times a year and provides young people with ongoing experiences about training and career opportunities throughout the arts industry. The workshops deliver specific skills and techniques to build self-confidence, artistry, self-esteem, and a passion for life. The program's safe and structured learning environment, social interaction, and support networks are the central components to building resilience, passion, and pride within young people.
Location: Fortitude Valley

Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts

The Camp provides young people with access to performing arts opportunities, training, and educational experiences three times a year and provides young people with ongoing experiences about training and career opportunities throughout the arts industry. The workshops deliver specific skills and techniques to build self-confidence, artistry, self-esteem, and a passion for life. The program's safe and structured learning environment, social interaction, and support networks are the central components to building resilience, passion, and pride within young people.
Location: Fortitude Valley

Carbal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services Ltd.

The Turning Point 6-week program, led by Carbal Medical Services, proactively tackles challenges confronting First Nations male youth engaged with the justice system and at risk of offending. This culturally tailored program intervenes early, offering structured modules over a year to empower participants and steer them away from the justice system. With a focus on instilling values, diversion tactics, and future prospects, Turning Point equips youth with the tools and referral pathways for positive decision-making and avoidance of criminal repercussions.
Location: Toowoomba North

Community Support Centre Innisfail

This event supports young people in the community to develop their skills in identifying and accessing resources when or if they are needed. The program aims to inform young people where they can find appropriate support or advice, and to reduce barriers to education and employment. Activities include:

• Diamonds in the Sky: Suicide Intervention Carnival, Innisfail Basketball Inc.
• Basketball and touch football 3-day event – provide education, awareness, and intervention strategies to reduce and eliminate suicide in our region.
• Mamu HSL- connecting youth to culture through mentorship, on country programs, and cultural workshops.
• Eco Youth, Johnstone River Community Gardens.

Location: Innisfail

CQ Healthy Families Inc.

The LOVE BITES program is training 25 new facilitators in the Rockhampton area. This collaboration involves approximately 11 local high schools, including Independent, Catholic, and State Schools, and partners with Police, and youth and family support agencies, including Darumbal, CQID, Helem Yumba, and PCYC. The program aims to equip young people with the knowledge needed to have respectful relationships, encourage, and develop critical thinking skills, and assist young people to problem solve and communicate effectively.
Location: Rockhampton

Creating Positive Futures Foundation

The Inspiring Brighter Futures Foundation will deliver 3 Onwards & Upwards wellbeing mentoring programs per identified school for participants in year 10 and younger.
Locations: Burleigh, Redlands, Greenslopes, Waterford

Every Child Central Queensland Inc.

Undertake a local project working with Community Based Crime Action Committee (CBCAC) members and other community stakeholders to present the case in favour of funding, establishing, and maintaining a 24/7 Drop-in Centre for youth in Rockhampton. The approach will involve:

Location: Rockhampton

Family and Childrens Emerging Support Services

The Indigenous Resilience Advancement Program (IRAP) provides assertive outreach to young people aged 8–17 with the goal of restoring comprehensive support for young people and their families. Implementing IRAP's cultural safe framework in the delivery of youth justice diversion programs contributes to achieving impactful outcomes for First Nations communities.
Location: Mackay

Fight 4 Youth

Inside Out is a 20-session program that runs during school terms for 2 hours per day. twice a week. It is designed to teach vital life skills, including the ability to self-regulate, make positive behaviour choices, understand consequences, discover interests that can lead to pathways for returning to school or employment, and enhance respect for themselves and others. The program contains structured theory and practical sessions delivered by Fight 4 Youth facilitators, community members, and police. Inside Out also includes sessions of intense physical training (aerobic conditioning: primarily boxing exercises such as bag work and focus mitts).
Location: Currumbin

Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation

The Youth Wellness Empowerment Initiative addresses mental health and domestic violence challenges for young individuals aged 8–10. It offers culturally sensitive methodologies, therapeutic interventions, and immersive cultural experiences to empower holistic wellbeing. The program runs for 10–12 months with regular evaluations to ensure effective resource allocation. The program will include Cultural Wellbeing Experiences, Therapeutic Support and Workshops for parents, and referral pathways to support services.
Location: Cairns

Ky Loh

The Flame Project will deliver an arts-based therapeutic program to young people who are engaged with or at risk of engaging with Youth Justice or Queensland Police. The program will run across 3 separate sessions offering a 12-week program to groups of between 5–10 participants. Throughout these sessions, young people will be educated on a variety of topics with a primary focus on building participants skills and understanding on how to utilise art for self-expression, emotional regulation, and as a career pathway. The project will involve completing an art piece to be displayed in the community.
Location: Kawana Waters

LCS Legacy Counselling

The Youth Pathways Program offers four sets of a 12-week program combining preventative and re-entry support for at-risk and juvenile system-exiting youth aged 8–17 in Queensland's Pasifika, Māori, and CALD communities. Focused on cultural grounding and healthy relationships, the initiative delivers mentoring, skill-building workshops, and reintegration activities. It nurtures resilience, cultural identity, and pro-social behaviour to deter crime involvement.
Location: Ipswich

Lives Lived Well Ltd.

Recognise Reflect Respect takes a holistic view of young males to reduce risk of domestic violence offending. The program will consist of 2 components:

1. A group in which young males can engage with peers and facilitators in conversations focused on positive masculinity, and challenging societal norms relating to gender, power, and control.
2. Individual therapy to address substance use and mental health complexities that may be contributing to their behaviour.

Location: Mermaid Beach

Lockyer District State High School P&C Association

Address health needs, lack of self-belief, and connection of the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander male students enrolled in Lockyer District High School. This will be through the facilitation of health checks to all applicable students from a local Aboriginal service and the delivery of the JT Academy JTBelieve program over a 10-week program.
Location: Lockyer

Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District

YARN is effective due to the collaborative case conferencing that occurs across key partner agencies and the multidisciplinary approach taken which yields holistic and innovative solutions. The grant will provide client-related costs to ensure families can enact plans developed by the YARN panel and reduce barriers to accessing specialist supports which will greatly increase the outcomes for young people and potentially alter their trajectory.
Location: Caboolture

Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District

The case manager will provide support to young people engaged in the YJET program to transition successfully from the YJET program back into further education/training or into employment. This will be achieved via various interventions including increasing life skills, goal setting, advocacy, referrals to external services, capacity building and group work. The position is 3 days per week and includes school holiday support.
Location: Morayfield

Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District

It has been identified that young people often attend Youth Justice Education and Training (YJET) without having access to food. Through a previous funded grant, YJET has been able to provide young people with breakfast options which has been shown to increase engagement and decrease behaviour issues. Food has also been used during living skills groups where young people have been able to research recipes and work together to cook a meal. This grant round will be utilised to continue to provide young people with food, as well as for additional educational resources and training such as White Card training, sensory tools, learning games etc.
Location: Morayfield

Mabel Park SHS Parents and Citizens Association

OCEANIA Cultural Dance Workshops will consist of 3 full-day workshops led by cultural elders from Indigenous, African, and Pasifika communities held on public holidays, weekends, or school holidays as a youth crime prevention initiative to youth aged 11–18. As a result of the workshops, young people will feel proud of their accomplishments, feel connected to culturally appropriate mentors, and feel better able to make a positive contribution to the communities they are connected to.
Location: Logan

Ngaran Goori Ltd.

This program works with individuals to prevent offending and re-offending by offering individual case management, extended case management of other supports offered to a young person, counselling and therapy supports, culturally appropriate locations for outdoor activities, Yarning Circles, native plant propagation, and Landcare Management Cert. 1 and Cert. 11.
Location: Ipswich

Noosa Council

The Noosa Youth Connect space project is a youth-led initiative offering after-hours services from 4 – 8pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays each week. Its main purpose is to connect young people with available services and kickstart council-youth collaboration. This dedicated space enables youth-led ideas, workshops, and a safe after-hours location, developing a single point of contact for all youth related services in Noosa Shire.
Location: Noosa

Queensland Blue Light Association Incorporated

Blue EDGE is an eight-week program targeted at 12–17-year-olds designed to build relationships between disengaged youth and police through a program of physical activity and motivational sessions. The targeted outcomes include improved attitude towards police, school, community, and each other, as well as improved teamwork skills, resilience, leadership capability, self-confidence, and adaptability. The program is delivered by police with two 90-minute sessions before school each week, comprising fitness, breakfast, and a presentation by a guest speaker. The program concludes with a 17th session, called the Final EDGE, and is a day of physical challenges and activities to celebrate participants' achievements.
Location: North Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville

Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association

The PCYC Zillmere Learner Licence Road Safety Program includes 4 Learner Licence workshops, the payment of a Learner Licence after successfully completing the workshops, and paid driving lessons for applicants identified as in need. The driving lessons will ensure applicants wishing to be considered for enrolment with the Zillmere/Sandgate Braking the Cycle program will have met the minimum requirements of 10 hours of driving.
Location: Zillmere

Queensland Youth Connections Indigenous Corporation

This weekly program across multiple schools in Townsville is aimed at supporting at-risk youth and those connected to youth justice. The program runs 24 workshops of 60–90 minutes at each school, with activities including discussions, group exercises, and practical skill-building.
Location: Townsville

Sakura Education Foundation Ltd.

A psycho-educational, skill-based program underpinned by cognitive behaviour therapy that aims to build resilience, improve mental health, enhance problem solving, build interpersonal skills, learn to manage emotions and behaviours, and learn positive communication skills to promote healthy, respectful relationships. The program targets young people aged 10–12 years and is promoted as a prevention and early intervention program for young people who have been identified as at-risk. The program is an eight-week school-based program for young people in Grades 5 and 6 to build protective factors and assist with their transition to adolescence and high school.
Location: Logan

Silver Lining Foundation Australia (trading as Mungalla Silver Lining School)

The full-time Community Youth Worker will support educational outcomes at Mungalla Silver Lining School by engaging holistically with students, their families, and the community to provide a case management approach to identifying and addressing barriers to education.
Location: Mutarnee

Stella Community

In 2022/2023, a Community Education Counsellor (CEC), a community elder, introduced a Bus Pick-up for students who were arriving late or had totally disengaged from school. Over the course of a school year, the CEC monitored approx. 40 students who began attending school regularly. By creating the habit of school attendance, monitoring showed that students self-selected to attend school independently on Fridays.
Location: Bowen

Twin Rivers Community Care Ltd.

Twin Rivers Community Care will engage a part time Youth Worker for 12 months to develop and implement a youth community centre for disengaged young people who are at risk of offending in the local community. Youth-based programs will be run out of this community centre. This will be held 3 days per week and include after school activities and a Friday night youth program and focus on resilience, support, and engaging young people back into quality education and/or employment. The re-engagement program includes excursions for job placement opportunities, adventure-based activities, trust building activities, counselling, case management, and motivational speakers.
Location: Logan

V.I.T.A.L. Projex

Twenty-four young people engaged in crime or antisocial activities, identified by our Indigenous partners, will participate in weekly mentor-led sessions using evidenced-based intervention sessions and innovative technology for 10 weeks. It will address values deficits, engage with 'MindTrax' in a soundproof pod, and set personal weekly goals which exercise their values and character strengths. University researched 'MindTrax TM' (visually guided EFT which quickly calms the mind from trauma triggers) combines psychosocial support towards proactive crime prevention. Virtual Reality therapy and EEG Headbands measure brain activity and stress management training. The Community VitalHub provides a secure space for personalised interventions, empowering youth in gaining empathy, emotional management, and supports them to collaborate with community groups, schools, and agencies towards sustained positive engagement.
Location: Ipswich

Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation

Made by Mob will provide a qualified trade trainer to teach for a minimum of 3 hours between 4–8pm on Friday and Saturday evenings for blocks of 4 weeks in term 4 2024, Christmas holidays (pending availability), and terms 1 and 2 2025. During each teaching block, students will complete a project (e.g. a wooden picnic bench) which they can paint, take home, or donate.
Location: Richlands