General Support Services & Counselling
The Integrated Family and Youth Service (IFYS)
Integrated Family And Youth Service
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Youth Support Program
Youth Support Program is a school-based initiative aimed at assisting young people who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, to remain connected to school, family and support networks. Servicing the Sunshine Coast secondary school cluster of Mountain Creek and Maroochydore, the program aims to link schools and community services together to improve the early identification of homelessness risk within schools and to co-ordinate developmental processes and programs within each school community.
Emergency Relief Program
Integrated Family and Youth Service provides emergency relief to young people through special funding from the Australian Government Department of Social Services. These funds are either distributed through partnership organisations located in the North Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and hinterland regions or through the IFYS office in Burnett Street, Mooloolaba.
Youth Engagement Program
The Youth Engagement Program is a collaborative initiative that provides outreach to young people engaging in high risk behaviours including survival sex, drug and alcohol use and offending. The team delivers services primarily within the Mooloolaba and Maroochydore areas of the Sunshine Coast where particular public space issues have impacted upon young people and communities. The program assists young people to make connections with support services and provides responsive interventions to young people who lack links to supportive networks and services.
Reconnect Program
Reconnect is a Youth Homelessness Early Intervention Program, funded by the federal department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA), that offers a range of support services to meet the individual needs of young people and families where relationship difficulties and other pressures threaten family disintegration. The central focus of Reconnect is to assist young people and families to remain connected to each other and to the community, before issues such as early school leaving and homelessness occur.
Reconnect recognises that individual young people and families may have impacting multiple needs requiring early intervention strategies. The program is working actively with local services and people to develop a regional strategy in regards to issues surrounding youth homelessness.
Young Parents Support Program
The Young Parents Support Program works with young pregnant women and young parenting families up to 25 years of age.
We provide a range of services and supports to young families to meet their ongoing needs including pregnancy and parenting support, social and recreational activities, weekly playgroups, home and hospital visits. We work collaboratively with a range of health and welfare services relevant to meeting the needs of young families.
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Age Ranges All ages