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.
CONTAINED AdelaideYouth RemandKaurna Yarta
Walk through the experience. Leave knowing what can change.
On 23 June, THE CONTAINED opens at Tandanya in Adelaide with one urgent question: why are children being held before sentence, and what would keep them safely connected to family, school, culture, housing, and support instead?
Where
Tandanya · Reintegration Puzzle Conference
When
23 June 2026 · public launch
Why this link exists
So people can move from feeling something to doing something useful.
Visitor pathway
Start with what you saw. Then choose what you can do.
Before you come
Know why it matters
Start with the short version: children can be held before sentence because the support around them is missing, stretched, or too hard to find.
Read the starting pointInside the rooms
Let the issue become real
THE CONTAINED turns the policy question into a physical experience, so the numbers are connected to young people, families, workers, and place.
See how it worksAfter you leave
Choose one useful next step
Open the youth remand path to find the law, campaigns, local alternatives, community organisations, and evidence you can share or act on.
Open the remand pathFinding 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 Works
Regional 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 Services
First 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 Justice
Legal representation, bail support, and aftercare services for Aboriginal young people across the Top End.
legalnorth australiabail support
WAresidential healing / justice aftercare
Wungening Aboriginal Corporation – Youth Healing
Perth-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 Housing
South 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 Support
Mildura-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.
Room links
Each room opens one clear next step.
The simplest setup is three QR codes: one for the issue, one for alternatives, and one for local action. People can keep moving without being dropped into a huge website menu.
Room 1
What is happening?
Why are children held before sentence, and what does that do to family, school, culture, safety, and trust?
Room 2
What could happen instead?
Search programs, services, evidence, and overseas examples that show how communities can support young people outside detention.
Room 3
What can Adelaide do next?
Find South Australian organisations, services, funding needs, and practical asks people can take into meetings after the experience.
Sendable note
The text to send with the link.
I am sending you this because THE CONTAINED opens in Adelaide at Tandanya on 23 June. It begins with youth remand: why children are held before sentence, what support could prevent custody, and what we can do next. Start here: justicehub.com.au/adelaide
Where to go next
A small set of links for different kinds of people.
Youth remand guide
A plain-language path through the issue, evidence, alternatives, and choices.
OpenJustice Matrix map
Search cases, campaigns, issues, and places connected to youth justice.
OpenCountry reports
Compare how other countries approach children, custody, support, and community models.
OpenDecision-maker brief
A short summary for people who need to understand the issue quickly.
OpenReaction form
Share what changed for you after walking through the rooms.
OpenSocial kit
Copy, captions, and assets that make the story easier to pass on.
OpenTour stop page
Details for the Adelaide stop and how it fits into the national tour.
OpenStarting point for more
Youth remand is the first doorway, not the whole story.
Adelaide shows the pattern in public: the artwork helps people feel the issue, JusticeHub helps them understand it, Empathy Ledger protects story consent, and the next step depends on who they are: visitor, advocate, funder, journalist, service provider, policymaker, or family member.
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Short answer