Health and Wellbeing

Student Wellbeing

School Focused Youth Service

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The School Focused Youth Service (SFYS) aims to strengthen the support for 10–18 year old vulnerable children and young people by facilitating partnerships and coordination of services between schools and community service organisations at a local level. These partnerships facilitate the identification of key issues and the development of innovative strategies to address service gaps for vulnerable children and young people. Brokerage funding can be used to purchase services to meet those gaps.

These improvements in service system collaboration are expected to result in:

  • improved planning at a local level to ensure children and young people are well connected to schools and services
  • better connected school, health and welfare services that support vulnerable children and young people
  • improved identification of children and young people who require prevention and early intervention strategies to assist their engagement and reengagement into education.

Program guidelines and case studies

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Program guidelines

For further information about the program, see School Focused Youth Service Program Guidelines 2009-2011 (PDF - 420Kb).

Case Study

For a case study of an innovative SFYS project, see the Loddon Mallee Cybersafety Project.

SFYS Coordinators

All Victorian regions

41 SFYS coordinators are employed by funded agencies to work with government, Catholic and Independent schools across the state.

Select your region using the map or links below:

Barwon South Western Grampians Loddon Mallee Hume Gippsland Northern Metropolitan Eastern Metropolitan Southern Metropolitan Western Metropolitan