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. 2022 Dec 7;22:2290. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14784-4

• Provide stable housing and supports for homeless youth.

• This will be achieved through: provision of family-like residential care for young people under 16 who are unable to live at home through the Lighthouse Project; Youth Wellbeing Officers who will provide community youth support and advice; housing for youth transitioning from statutory services or shelters including Youth Coaches to support these transitions; and identification of properties suitable for conversion to share housing for young people.

• It will include a residential care pilot program for young people under 16 who are not in the care of the state and are unable to live at home. The pilot will run over 3 years and provide a family like environment, accommodation and a program of therapeutic care with a focus on family restoration.

• It will provide 20 modular youth homes across four sites around the State.

• This initiative will identify 10 Housing Tasmania properties suitable for conversion into three to four-bedroom share housing properties for young people.