HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE HAVING A HARD TIME
We provide holistic youth work, education, accommodation, training, employment and the wraparound support of the BackTrack family to help some of the toughest kids get their lives back on track.
Transforming Young Lives
The young people we work with are facing complex intersecting challenges like disengagement from education, contact with the justice system, housing instability or homelessness, trauma, unemployment, poverty, substance use and psychological distress.
They need a place to belong and learn the basics.
1 in 5
Young people are disengaged from mainstream education
Cost per year to incarcerate a child in NSW
1 in 3
Young Australians have reported psychological distress
BACKTRACK IS BREAKING THE CYCLE
Young people experience homelessness each year in Australia
%
of young people in NSW released from sentenced detention returned within 12 months
%
of Australian young people live in poverty
Our holistic approach to youth work and young people’s wellbeing is based on the Circle of Courage concepts of Belonging, Mastery, Independence and Generosity.
This methodology is founded on a model from First Nations people in Canada, stating that for people (or communities) to thrive, they need these four quadrants to be in balance.
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Highlights of 2025
Check out this special thank you video from Founder, Bernie Shakeshaft and BackTrack young people. Can you help us make the festive season and new...