- Crisafulli Government is delivering three new Gold Standard Early Intervention programs for Central Queensland and the Wide Bay, to help restore safety where you live.
- Program will provide cultural mentoring, employment readiness courses, and skills development training for at-risk youth.
- The Crisafulli Government is investing $115 million to deliver Gold Standard Early Intervention, to turn the tide on Labor's Youth Crime Crisis and make Queensland safer.
- The Crisafulli Government is delivering safety where you live and a fresh start for Queensland.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering on its election commitment to restore safety where you live with three new early intervention programs for Central Queensland and the Wide Bay.
It is one of the ways the Crisafulli Government is delivering a fresh start for Queensland after crime skyrocketed during the former Labor Government's decade of decline.
Central Queensland Indigenous Development will receive almost $900,000 to deliver the new programs in Rockhampton, Woorabinda and Bundaberg for at-risk youth aged 13–17.
Participants will undertake a 12-week employment readiness course, cultural mentorship, and skills development activities to promote positive behaviour and a pathway to education, training or employment.
The programs will be delivered with Kickstarter funding as part of the Crisafulli Government's $115 million investment in Gold Standard Early Intervention, helping make Queensland safer by intervening early with youth, become they become entrenched in a life of crime.
Labor's weak laws, fewer police, and failure to invest in early intervention created a generation of serious repeat youth offenders and the Queensland Youth Crime Crisis.
The Crisafulli Government is restoring safety where you live with stronger laws, more police, and the biggest investment in rehabilitation and early intervention in Queensland history.
Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support Laura Gerber said the Crisafulli Government was delivering the fresh start Queenslanders voted for, exactly as promised.
"We are delivering safety where you live by investing in early intervention programs in Central Queensland and the Wide Bay to break Labor's cycle of crime," Minister Gerber said.
"Labor's failure to properly fund effective early intervention programs led to a decade of increasing numbers of youth offenders and victims of crime.
"The Crisafulli Government is investing in early intervention programs to help at-risk youth build a better future and to steer them away from a life of crime while providing the support needed to re-engage with the community, education or employment.
"While we are seeing crime down and victim numbers down, there is much more to be done to make Queensland safer, and we remain committed to delivering the fresh start we promised."
Member for Rockhampton Donna Kirkland welcomed the funding for the region.
"The Crisafulli Government is committed to making Queensland safer and early intervention is crucial to preventing the next generation of youth offenders," Mrs Kirkland said.
Member for Gregory Sean Dillon said the program would offer at-risk youth an alternative to a life of crime.
"By supporting our young people to actively engage in activities and routines, it will help them develop essential life skills, including emotional regulation, problem solving, and social competencies to get them back on track," Mr Dillon said.
Member for Keppel Nigel Hutton said the Crisafulli Government was committed to delivering safety where you live.
"Only with Adult Crime Adult Time, more police, rehabilitation and early intervention can we turn the tide on a youth crime crisis a decade in the making," Mr Hutton said.
Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett said delivering early intervention programs will help turn the tide on Labor's Youth Crime Crisis.
"By intervening in kid's lives early, we will have less youth offenders, fewer victims of crime and a safer community," Mr Bennett said.
Central Queensland Indigenous Development CEO Jason Field said this funding is a recognition of the power of community-led solutions.
"Our young people deserve every opportunity to be seen, supported, and set up for success. The Deadly Futures Program will do just that it will give them the tools, guidance, and belief to create a future they can be proud of," Mr Field said.
