Yarrow Place services
Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault Service is an inclusive service for anyone who has been sexually assaulted.
Yarrow Place's Intensive Therapeutic Care Program – Guardianship Youth provides support for young people who are under Guardianship. It is a partnership model with the Department of Child Protection (DCP) which provides a targeted service for young people who are identified as having absconding behaviours and/or who are at risk of sexual exploitation.
The service also contributes to sector development through training and consultation around working with ‘at risk’ young people via a therapeutic care framework.
The current model arose from Recommendation 42 of the ‘Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry 2008’ which identified that there was a need to provide flexible and intensive therapeutic support to young people who abscond and who are at risk of sexual exploitation.
Developed with the support of learning from the Berry Street ‘Take Two’ Program in Victoria, the Intensive Therapeutic Care Program provides flexible, intensive, assertive engagement approaches to working with young people identified as fitting the criteria for the program. The relationships that are built and maintained between the client, case manager, senior clinician and therapeutic care team are recognised as an essential part of the therapeutic process.
The Intensive Therapeutic Care Program bases its work on the following frameworks and theories:
Therapeutic Care Teams form the basis on which the Intensive Therapeutic Care Program operates. These teams are made up of significant support agencies and people in the young person’s life, and may include:
The Senior Clinician has four main roles:
Practice within the Intensive Therapeutic Care Program is framed by Legislation including: