Research
Research Publications and Projects
YSAS works collaboratively with a range of universities, institutions and other agencies to complete impactful, evidence-informed research projects.
Our Recent Research Publications
2025 YSAS Youth AOD Census: Technical Report  Â
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Completed in partnership between YSAS and LaTrobe University, the 2025 Youth Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Census was created with the aim of capturing the…
2025 YSAS Youth Census Snapshot
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This report is based on a preliminary analysis of data from the 2025 Youth AOD Census that relate to young people who use YSAS Youth…
Improving responses to young men’s use of intimate partner violence: Towards a best practice approach.
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This report examined the current service landscape and spoke to practitioners working with young people, young men who had used or have not used intimate…
2025 Learnings from the Youth Support Service: Promoting Positive Development and Preventing Crime
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Developed with contributions from Swinburne University, this report describes and evaluates the Youth Support Service, a Victorian community-based early intervention program focused on diverting young…
2024 Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Justice-Involved Young Women: A Scoping Review
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Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Justice-Involved Young Women: A Scoping Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(2), 1036-1052. (Original work published 2024)
A collaborative research…
2024 Final Report: Youth Support Service: Review and Advice
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Youth Support Service: Review and Advice. Prepared for Youth Support and Advocacy Service by the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne…
2023 Stronger Sisters
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Led by Bunjilwarra Koori Youth Services Stronger Sisters is a women’s healing camp provided to young Aboriginal women aged between 16 to 26 years old…
A systematic review of the efficacy of interventions targeting functional outcomes in young people with substance use problem
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University of Melbourne Substance Use Research Group Orygen partnered with YSAS to deliver this systematic review, which identifies intervention/ programs (or characteristics of intervention/ programs)…
2016-2017 The Victorian Youth Needs Census
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The Victorian Youth Needs Census: Technical Report on the needs and characteristics of young people in the youth alcohol and other drug system in 2016-2017…