Quality, Research, & Innovation

Brisbane Youth Service has a strong commitment to evidence-informed practice and collaborative research and evaluation to drive innovation.

Research and Evaluation at BYS

Our research and evaluation centres the voices and experiences of young people and their children.

We actively collaborate and consult with young people, academics, sector partners, and community  to address gaps in knowledge and identify emerging support needs and challenges impacting the wellbeing of young people. We are committed to using evidence to continually improve the effectiveness of our work with young people.

Key Topics

7 Year Data Project
Domestic & Family Violence
Families
Homelessness
Mental Health
Youth Participation

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March 13, 2024

Young People and Family and Intimate Partner Violence – A 7 Year Demographic Trend Analysis

This report summarises the findings from an analysis of assessment data on young people’s experience of family violence (FV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) on intake, which compared key demographic factors such as age, gender, cultural identities, sexuality, experience of disability, and parenthood. The overall aim of the report was to determine which, if any, demographic factors were related to experiences of FV and IPV.
March 13, 2024

Young People, Gender, and Family and Intimate Partner Violence: 7 year analysis, 2015-2022 Fact Sheet

This factsheet summarises the FV and IPV data for young people broken down by gender identity.
March 13, 2024

Young Parents, Family and Intimate Partner Violence: 7 year analysis, 2015-2022 Fact Sheet

This factsheet summarises the FV and IPV data for young parents. Over the 7 years, 23% of young people supported by BYS were young parents at intake.
March 13, 2024

Young People and Family and Intimate Partner Violence: 7 year analysis, 2015-2022 Fact Sheet

Over, 2,800 young people provided information about their experience of domestic and family violence at intake. This factsheet summarises the FV and IPV data for young people accessing Brisbane Youth Service.
October 30, 2023

Young People and Mental Health – A 7 Year Demographic Trend Analysis

This report summarises the findings from an analysis of seven years of Brisbane Youth Service’s assessment data on young people’s mental health diagnoses and self-rated mental health on intake. The report compared key demographic factors such as age, gender, cultural identities, sexuality, experience of disability, and parenthood.
October 30, 2023

Gender Diverse Young People and Mental Health: 7 year analysis, 2015-2022 Fact Sheet

This factsheet summarises the mental health assessment data for gender diverse young people accessing support from Brisbane Youth Service over the last 7 years.
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Innovation

Innovation ensures we continuously develop strategies, tools and programs to enhance the level of support available to vulnerable young people.  Examples of this include:

Cross-Organisational data collection to measure and understand our impact.

Couch-surfing research to address a critical knowledge gaps.

A focus on the intersection of homelessness and violence in recognition of the complexity of working with intimate partner and family violence in a homelessness context.

Youth-led practice informed by our Youth Participation Strategy to ensure young people’s voices and experience guide our work.

Evaluated trials of new programs that enable young people to be diverted from or transition out of the homelessness system.

 

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Research Guiding Principles

Research at BYS has four key guiding principles:

  1. Our research centres the voices and experiences of young people and their children, strategically prioritising forms of learning that have most capacity to benefit young people in navigating life challenges to thrive in the community.
  2. Our research is proactively collaborative and consultative in ensuring that we engage with academics, sector partners, community and young people at all stages.
  3. Our research upholds principles of reciprocity and pragmatism in ensuring that young people’s wellbeing is consistently the highest priority; and that research methods are adapted to ensure that young people benefit from their participation
  4. Our research recognises that young people’s experiences are highly complex, dynamic, intersectional and context-specific; and as such we strive to ensure that young people are ethically, respectfully and appropriately represented in all research outputs.