The Youth Justice Fund provides grants and contributions to projects that encourage a more effective youth justice system, respond to emerging youth justice issues and enable greater citizen and community participation in the youth justice system. As of Sept 5, 2019, the government website states that the fund currently provides close to $4 million for 11 Indigenous youth-focused projects.

The Youth Justice Fund is no longer accepting funding proposals. Please check this web site periodically for updates.

Objectives
Projects must meet at least one of the following objectives: 

• Establish special measures for violent young offenders; 
• Improve the system’s ability to rehabilitate and reintegrate young offenders; 
• Increase the use of measures, outside the formal court process, that are often more effective in addressing some types of less serious offending; 
• Establish a more targeted approach to the use of custody for young people; and 
• Increase the use of community-based sentences for less serious offending.