Youth Drug and Alcohol Court Programs: An Analysis and Report

This report investigates the critical issue of drug and alcohol consumption among youth, focusing on the Australian context. It examines the impact of substance abuse on the physical and mental health of young people, particularly within the indigenous community. The report analyzes the efforts of the Australian government to reduce drug and alcohol use, including healthcare developments and judicial programs like the Youth Drug and Alcohol Court. It explores the court's objectives, phases of intervention, and the roles of police and courts in addressing youth substance abuse. Furthermore, the report discusses the challenges in implementing these programs, the importance of community involvement, and the overall effectiveness of interventions in preventing youth involvement in criminal activities. The conclusion summarizes the government's multi-faceted approach to promoting the health and well-being of young Australians.

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Introduction
The objective of this essay is to identify the uses of the drug substances and alcohol
consumption in the indigenous community, youth, and adult in the community use drug and
alcohol continuously. This consumption of the drug and alcohol in the youth is a matter of
serious discussion as this affect the physical and mental health of the youth. The government
of Australia is making efforts to reduce the alcohol and drug consumption in the community
it have adapted many ways as it apply development in the health care services it also has
introduced many judicial program that serves the development of health and deal with the
reducing of the drug in the aboriginals youth. This essay aims to discuss the impact of these
judicial programs by the government and the challenges these programs deal to manage their
working with the youth in the targets drug and alcohol uses in indigenous Australia (Battaglia
2012).
Youth drug and alcohol court programs
Established in the year 1999, the Youth Drug and Alcohol Court program is the result of
the Drug Summit at New South Wales Government’s in 1999. This summit was aimed to
discourse growing community distress related to the increasing role of illegal drug in the
community. Based on the summit does recommendations expansion if the exist Adult Drug
Court with new modifications and reasonable changes in aimed to manage the effective
delivery of the youth services. this summit planned to manage the effective procedure in the
community services that aimed to deliver the effective judicial support to the people and
youth as guidance and aid to develop these communities (Etter 2011).
The objects of the program of the Court establishment for the youth were to decrease the
alcohol and drug dependence of children, to encourage the re-integration of kind of the drug
needy children into their relations and the communal, and to decrease the essential for such

drug reliant on youngsters to remedy to illegal action to care their medicine addictions. The
campaign fluctuates to the Adult Drug Court in that children were dealing with pre-sentence
relatively than post sentence (JustFacts 2017). The following phases were important to treat
the drug addiction in the young of indigenous community as
Police
Police are the chief theme of communication for young person ingoing the illegal activities in
the Australian Capital Territory. Police have unrestricted powers to distract young people
who have performed any minor offences using a cautionary and distracting system. If a
decision is made to accuse, the police may issue an order for the young person to attend
court, or impede them until the next sitting of the Children's Court. During this sitting police,
use the communication to deliver the mode of young from the drugs and they tries to get the
information about supplier of the drug (Stojkovic, Kalinich & Klofas 2014).
Courts
After the police custody and the sitting in the next hearing the courts have rights and dut9ies
to examine the case of the youth effectively, they use their power of counselling to divert the
mind of the youth in this process they can use threatening or counselling according to the
situation and demand of the case (Vogel, Stephens & Siebels 2014).
Diversion program
The courts and many other services to manage the effective development of the youth and to
reduce the threat of the drug consumption in the youth run these programs. Youth taking the
drug is very serious because it leads them to enter in the world of crime. Sometimes in the
need of drug and alcohol in the youth are ready to enter in the crime like theft and threatening
any person.

These activities are starting of the criminal activities that end on the murder or many other
criminal offences.
The courts and government to treat the mental and physical health of the youth to treat the
desire of drug by their counselling operate offence-specific and therapeutic programs.
Supported accommodation and bail programs are aimed to support the innocent youth and
prevent them of being a criminal, as punishment is not always supporting. This program
identifies the reason of such activities and tries to solve these issues (Vogel, Stephens &
Siebels 2014).
Pre- and post-release support helps the youth to enter in the community again as youth face
challenges to manage the life in the community due to many reasons and this service supports
and motivate the youth to enter in the community and live the life in the peaceful manner.
Impact of the Youth drug and alcohol court programs
The youth in the Australia face many challenges, these challenges are related to financial,
emotional, poverty, education and sometimes to other reason, drug and alcohol provide them
relief as it leads the chemicals that make the body comfortable and free. Regular use of drug
make their lives very challenging hence these programs are very effective to lead the solution
of the issues related to prevent the criminal activities adapting in the youth (Lindsay et al.
2015).
Challenges in the implication of the Youth drug and alcohol court programs
There are many challenges associated to the programs for the support to prevent the use od
the drug because youth became habitual of the drug and alcohol face difficulties live without
using these and in case of his need youth is possible to become violent. Sometimes

community raise challenging to the courts and services programs they resist to accept the
youth and this lead demotivation in the youth.
Role of Indigenous community and their support is very important as they support to the
police and government by awaking them about the precipice of illegal activities. Involvement
of the community also can help to arrange the awareness programs for the youth.
Conclusion
Based on the above discussion this essay concludes that government of Australia is working
in many sector to prevent the involvement of the youth in the criminal activities, and the
program to prevent the drug use in the youth with many programs. The police run these
programs and courts, government make efforts to make the youth healthy and active in the
development of the country.

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