Justice

Youth Justice Programmes

Challenge 2000 successfully works with young people who have offended and are trying to become positive participating members of our society. We…

  • Assess the young person to determine if we can meet their needs
  • Focus on building positive relationships with young people and their families
  • Attend Youth Court and Family Group Conferences
  • Produce innovative intervention options to FGC’s and Youth Court
  • Work with the young person and their families to build an intensive therapeutic programme
  • Work with other professionals to ensure that the needs of the young person are being met

Programme options include:

  • Supported Bail
  • Court Supervised Camps
  • Court-ordered Mentoring
  • Supervision with activity
  • Alternative Education
  • College reintegration support/tutoring
  • Whanau support
  • Welfare assistance
  • Supervision of community service hours
  • Accountability to victims e.g. letter writing, payment follow up.
  • After hours – evening and weekend supervision
  • Participating in positive youth development programmes
  • Residential camps
  • Mentoring
  • Transition Unit – dependence to independence to interdependence
  • Crisis accommodation
  • Specific culturally appropriate intervention
  • Ongoing follow up after plans completed

Our programmes are based on the theoretical foundations of Te Whare Tapa Wha, strengths based practice, emotional intelligence, solution focussed and systems theory, ecological theory, and restorative justice.

“I was into real bad stuff. Drinking too much – smoking up – it’s hard out here – we are nothing. There’s no future. I got into trouble, stayed some nights in the cells, would have ended up in prison – did bad stuff. Challenge showed me that there is another world and I can get to it. I’ve got bigger thoughts and have people to help me reach them. One step at a time + keep it real – that’s what’s important” -Mike (not real name)

Gabrielle Maxwell interviewed the staff of Challenge 2000 involved in youth justice programmes for her project “Achieving Effective Outcomes in Youth Justice” (2004) Gabrielle was extremely positive about our programmes, saying that much of what we do is effective practice.

UO SALAMO IA I FA’ALAUELAVE NA TUPU, E LE TOE MANA’O OIA E TOE FO’I AI, E AVEA IA MA TANGATA FOU, E FA’AFOU AI LONA MAFAUFAU

We learn from our past mistakes, And we are sorry for our actions. We do not wish to travel down the same pathway because we know where that road takes us. We want to be changed. We want to see the world with new eyes! The mind is where the battle is won or lost…

Andrew Becroft – Principal Youth Court Judge
(Te Kaiwhakawa Matua o te Kooti Taiohi)

“In my role as Principal Youth Court Judge, I sit regularly in the Porirua Youth Court. I have regularly met Challenge 2000 who have been supporting young offenders to complete intervention and rehabilitative programmes. Without fail, I have found Challenge 2000 works to be professional, efficient, timely and reliable. They contribute greatly to the proper functioning of the Court. More importantly however the Challenge 2000 organisation can be trusted to deliver effective high quality interventions for young offenders.”

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