Youth Action has just released their ‘Voices of Young People in NSW on Sexual Violence’ report. Youth Action heard from young people in NSW across two roundtables about their priority issues, needs, gaps and opportunities for enhancing sexual violence prevention and response in NSW.   

Youth Action would like to thank DCJ for their commitment to ensuring the inclusion of voices of young people in their policy-making. 

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Background

In 2022 Youth Action was contracted by the Department of Communities and Justice to undertake engagement with young people 16 – 24 years about sexual violence prevention and response with young people across NSW. The aim was to identify information and evidence about young people’s priority issues, needs, gaps and opportunities for enhancing sexual violence prevention and response in NSW, as part of the development and implementation of the next NSW Sexual Violence Plan. This report and its findings will also inform the implementation of actions in the NSW Sexual Violence Plan 2022-2027 as they relate to young people. 

Young people were invited to submit an expression of interest (EOI) to attend one of two roundtables. Both the EOI and the roundtables asked questions to establish young people’s definition of sexual violence and draw out their views and opinions about key issues and strategies to address these. 

Not surprisingly the opportunities young people identified covered the full spectrum of sexual violence prevention and responses from prevention and early intervention such as education and awareness raising initiatives through to service delivery and legislation reform. They identified 28 opportunities and considerations that could improve the Government response under the following themes: inclusion of young people’s voices, culturally safe and trauma informed supports and services, awareness raising and community education, communication and messaging for young people, school-based educational programs, youth-focused sexual violence training, reporting, support services, and legislation.  

Young people have strong views about how outcomes can be improved for themselves and their peers and want to be included in the development of strategies addressing sexual violence prevention and responses by the NSW Government. There are significant opportunities for many of these ideas to be further explored in partnership with young people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences to co-design solutions. 

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