
Always Hope
Supporting young adults with experience of care and custody
with Multiple partners
with Multiple partners
with Health Foundation, NHS England and NHS Improvement
with Innovation Unit
with The National Lottery Community Fund
with Te Rourou, Vodafone Aotearoa Foundation
with Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa
with Auckland Council
with Western Australian Minister for the Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence
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Innovation Unit has partnered with Paul Ramsay Foundation (PRF) to generate insights and recommendations for strengthening the specialist DFV support field in Australia.
The Innovation Unit Design Academy Australia is officially accepting applications to join our 2024 cohort!
Care experienced young adults (18-25 years old) are over represented in the prison system; approximately 25% of all adult prisoners have had experience of care, compared to 1% of the general population.
Based on the piloting of Always Hope in the West Midlands, we have developed this handbook and accompanying manual to help staff in other regions implement the protocols and practices that have been delivered; aiming to improve the way that care experienced young adults receive support whilst in prison and on release.
This new innovation brings practitioners from prison, probation and leaving care services together with young men in prison with care leaver status, to integrate their support.
Content warning: Please note, the following blog includes descriptions of experiences of racism and references to death
As people who are tasked with facilitating consultation, codesign, and amplifying unheard voices, the Voice referendum is close to our heart. We’ve been contemplating the referendum alongside big reflections as an organisation about our place as non-Indigenous designers and facilitators in the work we do with First Nations communities across Australia and Tangata Whenua in New Zealand, and internationally.
Innovation Unit is the Learning and Support Partner on The National Lottery Community Fund’s Health Equalities programme
Co-design of new WA model out-of-home care wins Gold at the 2023 Australian Good Design Awards