In 2023, Brighton Council agreed to progress the Bridgewater Youth Hub in partnership with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service (TALS). A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project was endorsed by Council and signed in December 2023.
Brighton Council and TALS are committed to consulting with the communities of the Brighton local government area on the development of a Youth Hub in Bridgewater.
What is the Youth Hub?
The Youth Hub will be a physical space that aims to be a place-based solution to:
• Provide a lens to prevent and divert youth from contact with the justice system.
• Provide services for the 12-25 year age group.
• Support the high Aboriginal youth population of the community, including those they interact with.
• Be led and run by community following initial support of TALS and Council.
This is essentially a justice reinvestment project that will begin by bringing the community together to identify the best way to nurture and grow our young people, prevent and reduce young people’s contact with the criminal justice system, and using the strengths and voice of young people, cultural knowledge, lived experience and data, to design what will work best for our youth.