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Creating Spaces for Growth: The Physical and Emotional Environment of Transformation

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From Control to Care: Reimagining Staff Roles in Youth Justice

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The Courage to Connect: How Authentic Relationships Transform Youth in Detention

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Beyond Walls: What Spanish Youth Detention Centers Taught Me About Seeing Humanity First

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Achieving Gold-Standard Youth Crime Prevention: Designing Programs That Transform Lives

Government investment in youth crime prevention is a welcome and timely step. To truly transform young lives and enhance community safety, however, programs must meet a gold standard of design and delivery. This position paper outlines a vision for gold-standard youth crime prevention and practical guidance on designing “kickstarter” initiatives that change life trajectories for at-risk youth.

Benjamin Knight

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Beyond Shadows: Plato's Cave and the Reimagining of Youth Justice in Australia

Last week, I stood at the entrance of what scholars believe could have been the inspiration for Plato's famous allegory—a cave nestled in the ancient hills outside Athens. As sunlight filtered through craggy stone, casting dancing patterns at my feet, I felt the weight of 2,400 years of human wisdom pressing upon me.

Benjamin Knight

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Creating Spaces for Growth: The Physical and Emotional Environment of Transformation

"The environment is not separate from our therapeutic approach – it is integral to it," explains Teresa, a facility director. "What does a concrete cell with steel furniture communicate? That the young person is dangerous, untrustworthy, unworthy of beauty or comfort. We choose to communicate something different."

Benjamin Knight

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From Control to Care: Reimagining Staff Roles in Youth Justice

In my third reflection from Spain's Diagrama centres, I witness a profound reimagining of what it means to work with troubled youth.

Benjamin Knight

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The Courage to Connect: How Authentic Relationships Transform Youth in Detention

This scene, repeated countless times across Diagrama's centres, illuminates what might be the most revolutionary aspect of their approach: the primacy of relationship in the work of transformation.

Benjamin Knight

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Beyond Walls: What Spanish Youth Detention Centers Taught Me About Seeing Humanity First

"We're not just enforcing a sentence to pass the months until they leave. We're here to work with them, to transmit values, to show them there's a different way."

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From Trouble to Transformation: The CAMPFIRE Journey

Stories from the frontlines of Indigenous youth empowerment in Queensland's Lower Gulf

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Beyond Systems: A Day with Jackqwann in the Heart of Australia

In Alice Springs' shimmering heat, I sat beside a young man named Jackqwann whose rap lyrics cut straight to the heart of what it means to stand at the crossroads of identity and belonging:

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