Safe Space is the Youth Justice NSW intervention program to help address adolescent domestic and family violence. The program has been designed to cater for the difficulties linked with adolescent domestic family violence.
Safe Space draws on Narrative Practice, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, as well as family work, to provide a more rigorous and therapeutic response to managing challenging family situations. The program recognises that adolescents, parents and intimate partners may be both the victims and perpetrators of domestic family violence.
Safe Space is only delivered in the community and is not available to young people in a Youth Justice Centre.