The Holding Our Own report provides a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence, touching on a range of issues including drugs policing and mental health, police in schools, and racist prosecutions.
Safe and trauma-informed youth services for people from marginalised communities are highlighted in the report as key to helping young people process and heal from racism.
“In a context where young people of colour face racism and exclusion daily, it is vital for us to build spaces that allow young people to heal from these experiences,” the report states.
It adds that government neglect is damaging young people and their communities by failing to invest in youth services, adding that the policing of young people is causing them serious harm.
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