GO8424: Strengthening Community Safety - Blue Light Victoria

The Program will provide $7.376 million over 4 years to Blue Light Victoria to deliver prevention and early intervention activities that target young people aged 17 or younger involved in, or at risk of being involved in, the criminal justice system.

It is expected that activities will be aimed at the participation of young people at-risk to decrease patterns of recidivism and provide alternative pathways for youth at-risk.

This grant opportunity will run over 4 years from 2026-27 to 2029-30.

The grant opportunity is part of the Department of Home Affairs Program 1.2 – National Security and Resilience, to provide services to support inclusive, safe and secure communities.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to: provide alternative pathways for young people who are at risk of being engaged in criminal and/or anti-social behaviour promote inclusion, build community resilience and strengthen family support structures enable young people at-risk to break patterns of recidivism and cyclical engagement in criminal activity help young people at-risk to develop life skills to prevent them from becoming entrenched in the criminal justice system and to promote inclusion and build community resilience.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are: improved engagement of young people at-risk in education, work ready programs and the community more generally decreased anti-social behaviour or engagement in criminal activity an increase in positive community and family engagement to reduce the incidence of engagement in criminal activity by young people at-risk and decrease recidivism rates among the same cohort.

To be eligible, the applicant must be Blue Light Victoria Incorporated (ABN 57722960386).

The project must include one or more prevention and early-intervention activities targeting young people aged 17 or under who are involved in, or at risk of being involved in, the youth criminal justice system, to decrease patterns of recidivism and provide alternative pathways for young people at risk of engaging in criminal and anti-social behaviour.

All project locations must be in Victoria, Australia.

If successful, all personnel working on the grant activity must maintain a Working with Children check.