





ALL YAC services are free, voluntary and confidential. We may be able to help if you are anywhere in the greater Brisbane area – between Caboolture and Beenleigh and Ipswich to the Bay Islands.
For more information or to ask for for help – contact us! The staff taking your call will work out who is the best person at YAC to help you.
Legal Services (10 – up to 18 yrs)
YAC’s specialist youth lawyers provide:
Homelessness and youth support services (15-25 yrs)
YAC’s homelessness and youth support team is based in Brisbane and Caboolture but travels to where young people are. The workers can help:
Family support services (10-18 yrs)
YAC’s Family Support worker will work with them and their family – but only at the request/with the agreement of the young person – and can help:
BOSS is an independent, community based service at YAC for young people from Gympie to the Gold Coast who are thought to be at serious risk of breaching their bail or youth justice orders.
BOSS staff provide resources, supports and activities to young people, particularly for education and employment, housing and accommodation, connection to family and connection to culture, and social/fun things to do so that young people can keep to the conditions the court has ordered and avoid getting into further trouble with the law.
Only Youth Justice officers can refer a young person to BOSS – but if a young person thinks BOSS can help them, they should talk to their YJO, lawyer or call YAC.
Youth Court Assistance Program (YCAP) (10-18 years)
YCAP is a community based program, developed by the Youth Advocacy Centre’s homelessness and youth support program. It has been operating in the Brisbane Childrens Court for many years, has recently been established in Caboolture and Pine Rivers, and is about to be introduced in the Redcliffe, Cleveland, Southport, Ipswich, Richlands and Cairns Childrens Courts.
The YCAP worker engages with young people who are waiting at court to:
Community legal education services (10-18 years; workers)
The YAC community legal education lawyer is able to:
We are always looking to assist young people to the best of our ability: knowing whether we have done a good job or not is really useful so that we can keep doing what works well and change things which might not being going so well. It is also important information for our funding bodies.
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