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Published on: 1/15/2008
Last Visited: 10/15/2008
Winners: Lisa Abbott, Senior Case Manager, Youth Justice, Southern Metropolitan Region, DHS and Joy Stewart, Manager, Cullity Unit (Young Women's Unit), Parkville Youth Residential Centre, DHS.
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Joy Stewart
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Joy Stewart
For 20 years Joy has served the Victorian Youth Justice system, primarily working with young female offenders aged from 12 to 21 years.
For the last 13 years Joy has managed the Cullity Unit at Parkville Youth Residential Centre.
The Centre is the sole accommodation in Victoria for young woman who have been sentenced to youth residential or training centre orders.
These are some of the State's most vulnerable and challenging young women.
Joy continues to directly case manage residents in the Cullity Unit and has a profound capacity to make a positive difference for them.
Joy understands the contemporary issues confronting the young women, however tempers her advice with 'old school' values and wisdom.
She has a remarkable influence on the lives on these young women, both while they are residents and often long after.