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Adolescent Forensic Health Service (AFHS)

The Adolescent Forensic Health Service (AFHS) is a multidisciplinary health service which provides a wide range of health services and specialist interventions to high risk young people who are in custody or on community based orders supervised by Juvenile Justice system. The mission of AFHS is to provide the highest quality health and rehabilitative services, in Victoria, for young offenders, their families and the community.

Services provided include the full range of primary health and forensic related assessments and interventions to young people on juvenile justice orders which include; individual and group based programs that aim to prevent adolescent offending by young people on community-based and custodial orders;

Examples of the programmatic work undertaken by AFHS include the Health Promotion and Education programs primarily related to issues impacted on young peoples health and development; the MAPPS program which emphasises participants (males aged 10-21 who have been found guilty of a sexual offence) taking responsibility and changing offending behaviours and the BRAVE program, designed to work with young people who have committed violent offences.