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YouthKan Youth Support Service

Specialist Youth Out of Home Care

YouthKan, our Specialist Out of Home Youth Support Service is designed to improve the quality of life for young people in out of home care who have severe mental health needs and psychosocial disabilities.

YouthKan has been designed to ensure each young person has a safe, nurturing and stable home, recovery-oriented mental health supports in a home and living environment, assistance to navigate and access funding and supports (ie. NDIS) to provide a therapeutic approach to building capacity, and service continuity and support when transitioning into adulthood and out of out of home care.

YouthKan works in an integrated way with community, clinical and service partners to help young people build and foster resilience, build capacity and connect with family, community and the opportunity to achieve their potential.

We do this across the young persons’ journey in out of home care and towards adulthood by ensuring each individual has:

Safe, nurturing and stable home environment.
Specialised recovery-oriented service that provides person-centred, trauma-informed and strengths-based youth mental health support in a home and living environment and builds individual skills and capacity that encompasses the young person and their family.
NDIS access pathway (where required) and assistance coordinating and gathering eligibility evidence, submitting access request application, working with NDIS planner to obtain approved funding, developing the NDIS Plan, and coordinating and connecting with appropriate supports.
Service continuity and support navigating systems when transitioning into adulthood and out of out of home care, providing service coordination to ensure appropriate housing and supports.

How Does YouthKan Work?

When a young person is referred to our service a Wellbeing Plan is collaboratively prepared with the young person, the Department of Child Safety and other key stakeholders (i.e family if appropriate), providing the opportunity to identify, voice and outline their home and living needs, goals and outcomes, helping them to plan with optimism, build capacity, have a sense of belonging, purpose and wellbeing and achieve their potential.

The plan provides a guide to the young person, Karakan and their supports and is regularly reviewed, adapted, and evolved with the young person and their stakeholders to help them identify, celebrate and evaluate their progress, needs, challenges, strengths and areas of ongoing focus and growth.

Wherever possible the young person’s family will be engaged in the development, ongoing establishment and review of the Home and Living Outcomes Plan as this is consistent with applying a holistic, recovery-oriented and capacity building approach to planning and supports.

Key Elements of YouthKan

Specialised Support

Youth mental health support and psychosocial support in residential service
Recovery-oriented practice with young person and family
TCI (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention) framework
Hope and healing

Building Capacity

Learning, education and interests
Building, managing relationships
Access to funding and NDIS supports to meet needs and build capacity
Work in partnerships with clinical youth mental health supports, allied health and community supports

Continuity of Supports

Help transitioning to formal and informal supports when 18 years old
Assistance to navigate systems and services
Provide housing and social supports

Trusted Specialist Youth Support Service Provider

Karakan is dedicated to tailored and meaningful support to create a better future for young people.

To get started on your YouthKan journey, please give us a call on (07) 3299 1898 or send an email to customerservice@karakan.com.au.

YouthKan Youth Support Service

Specialist Youth Out of Home Care

How Does YouthKan Work?

Key Elements of YouthKan

YouthKan Practice Framework

Trusted Specialist Youth Support Service Provider