First-contact triage
A no-wrong-door intake that asks what the young person needs in the next 72 hours: safety, legal help, bail, housing, family, school, culture, health, or transport.
Justice Network
Issue verticals that turn feeling into evidence and evidence into action.
JusticeHub has many data surfaces. Justice Network gives them a public campaign shape: choose an issue, see the human story, search the system, understand the law, find the alternatives, follow the money, and send a useful brief.
First issue guideResearch, not legal advice
If CONTAINED leaves people asking "what now?", start with youth remand.
This guide explains why young people are held before sentence, what it costs, what alternatives exist, who is organising, and what a visitor, advocate, worker, funder, or decision-maker can do next.
Law
cases, campaigns, and rights in plain language
Support
detention sites, local alternatives, and funding
People
stories only when consent makes them safe to share
Art opens the door
Contained gives people a visceral entry point into youth detention and the alternative future communities are already building.
Search shows the field
Search services, organisations, civic findings, grants, foundations, and local support pathways after someone has been moved to act.
Matrix links strategy
Cases, campaigns, issues, evidence, and legal review turn scattered advocacy memory into something reusable.
Network makes a brief
Each vertical becomes a partner-ready scenario with a search, map, issue playbook, story boundary, and exportable next step.
Country reports widen the lens
Africa and Europe route countries become honest scoping reports, model comparisons, and consent-safe learning paths.
Ways in
Start with the question a visitor actually has.
A young person, family member, advocate, funder, worker, or visitor will not all need the same thing. These paths keep the next step small, useful, and honest.
Start here
Visitor or guest
For someone who just heard about CONTAINED or walked through it and needs a clear next page to send on.
OpenFind support
Young person or family
Start with practical help: legal support, housing, safety, mentoring, school, family, and local services.
OpenAdd your work
Local organisation
Share a program, service, place, practice, referral pathway, or local need so people can find what helps.
OpenFind sources
Law or advocacy team
Find cases, inquiries, campaigns, issue guides, and public evidence that can support a stronger argument.
OpenCompare costs
Funder or policy lead
Compare detention spending with local support, then look for the organisations and gaps that need backing.
OpenFinding alternatives
If detention is the wrong answer, what support can actually hold a young person?
The Australian Living Map of Alternatives helps people look for local services, court support, housing, mentoring, school pathways, cultural support, and community-led programs that can change the path before custody.
Bail and remand support
Court support, bail address options, family liaison, reminders, transport, mentor check-ins, and practical plans that make release safer than custody.
Stable place to land
Housing, respite, supported accommodation, family mediation, and safe local places so "no address" does not become a detention pathway.
Learning and work
Flexible school, TAFE, training, paid work, social enterprise, and creative practice that give a young person a next week worth turning up for.
Healing and culture
Elders, family, on-Country work, AOD support, mental health, peer leadership, and trauma-aware practice held by trusted local people.
Proof and resourcing
Plain evidence, costs, referral details, outcomes, funding needs, and source links so local work can be found and backed.
Australian examples
The alternative only matters if people can see what it looks like in real places.
These examples point to the kind of local work that can keep young people connected to family, school, culture, housing, health, and trusted adults.
NSWjustice diversion / vocational learning
BackTrack Youth WorksRegional youth justice diversion program in Armidale combining animal therapy, accredited training, and intensive wraparound support.
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NSWjustice diversion / family support
Deadly Connections Community & Justice ServicesFirst Nations-led organisation delivering culturally grounded justice diversion, court support, and family casework across Gadigal Country.
First Nations-ledjustice reinvestmenturban
NTlegal representation / bail support
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency – Youth JusticeLegal representation, bail support, and aftercare services for Aboriginal young people across the Top End.
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WAresidential healing / justice aftercare
Wungening Aboriginal Corporation – Youth HealingPerth-based healing centre with alcohol and other drug residential services, justice aftercare, and family reunification support.
First Nations-ledhousing supportAOD recovery
SAhousing-first / tenancy coaching
SYC HYPA HousingSouth Australian Foyer-style accommodation and coaching that combines safe housing with education, employment, and life skills.
housingeducationindependent living
VICbail accommodation / cultural mentoring
Mallee District Aboriginal Services – Youth Justice SupportMildura-based justice support service providing bail accommodation, cultural mentoring, and legal advocacy in north-west Victoria.
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One roof
The long-term goal is a real place where people can sit together and solve practical problems.
A local JusticeHub should bring support navigation, alternatives, legal help, story consent, funders, and practice learning into one room, so families and workers are not left to navigate everything alone.
Welcome desk
A calm front door that routes people to support, not a maze of forms.
Local alternatives bench
Screens, maps, and cards showing local alternatives, referral paths, evidence, and gaps.
Law and advocacy table
Cases, campaign memory, briefs, complaints, and source packs that help people act carefully.
Story consent studio
Empathy Ledger capture, review, withdrawal, attribution, and cultural safety before anything public.
Funding room
A place to turn community work into clear asks, partner packs, and practical backing.
Practice lab
Practitioners, young people, families, and system people improving the model together.
What this becomes
A repeatable public method for JusticeHub.
Youth Remand is the first vertical because it aligns the Contained exhibition, Justice Matrix, ALMA, funding intelligence, organisations, world-tour learning, and consented stories. The next verticals can reuse the same pattern without rebuilding the whole site.
Boundary
The public layer stays open. Raw story material, private notes, and sensitive partner work stay in Empathy Ledger or gated workspaces until consent and review are clear.
Raise the AgeWatch housesDetention conditionsJustice reinvestmentRefugee detentionCommunity alternatives
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