Policy submissions and position statements
YSAS is Australia’s largest, youth-specific community service organisation. Our prime focus is to deliver effective Youth AOD treatment and early intervention services, and to do this well we provide sector leadership and advocate on issues to improve outcomes and opportunities for the young people and families we work with.
Hardmission Service Report
24.03.2025
Victoria’s Drug Checking Service operated at Hardmission music festival in Werribee, Victoria on February from 2-7pm.
We analysed 80 samples. We had health and harm…
Beyond The Valley Service Report
05.03.2025
Victoria’s Drug Checking Service operated at Beyond The Valley music festival located in Hesse, Victoria over four days, 28-31 December 2024.
The service was…
Welcome Pack for Family and Carers
26.09.2024
Read this Welcome Pack for Family and Carers if a young person in your life has recently been connected with YSAS.
Welcome Pack for Young People
26.09.2024
Read this Welcome Pack for Young People if you have recently been connected with YSAS.
YSAS Response to National Family Violence Crisis
06.05.2024
The Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) stands alongside and acknowledges the strengths, agency, and resilience of victim-survivors of family violence. Holding a vision of…
YSAS Resilience-Based Practice Framework
05.12.2023
The Resilience-based Practice Framework outlines our model of care and Five ‘Key Practices’ that are employed by our practitioners and within our programs to ensure…
YSAS Adolescent Withdrawal Guidelines (2016)
10.11.2023
These Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Adolescent Withdrawal Guidelines have been developed as a resource to support clinicians who are working with adolescents seeking to…
Black Lives Matter and ‘Anti-Racism’
13.11.2020