BEROS

Brisbane Emergency Response Outreach Service

About BEROS

24/7 support for at-Risk Youths

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BEROS is a partnership between Community Living Association (lead organisation) and Micah Projects Inc to provide service to young people 12 – 18 years who are in the care of Department of Child Safety, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs who are identified as self-placing (which may include sleeping rough) in the Brisbane, Lower North Coast and Sunshine Coast districts.

BEROS also often engage with young people who are still connected to a placement but are regularly absent from placement, working alongside the young person’s Child Safety Officer and placement to keep them connected to their placement and support them to safely return.

BEROS operates 365 days and aims to provide 24/7 support to young people. 

Support Information & referrals

Referrals can be made by anyone including Child Safety, the young person, other services, ect.

Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Phone call to Team Leader Toni Sumner – 0447 385 199.

After 5pm

Phone call to BEROS street to home: 3036 4444

BEROS CASE MANAGEMENT

Monday to Friday 9am- 5pm

Working alongside young people, Child Safety and other key stakeholders to connect young people to safe and stable housing, increase safety and stability and support young people to access resources.

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BEROS Street to Home

Operates 7 nights a week 5pm- midnight

BEROS STH engage in assertive outreach to ‘hotspots” known as areas young people frequent and sleep rough, respond to child safety after hours referrals, provide transports for young people back to placement or safe self-placing options, respond to young people in crisis and provide welfare checks and the provision of practical support.

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BEROS Overnight Support

7 nights a week 3 houses which each sleep up to 2 young people for 2 consecutive nights (exceptions made on weekends & public holidays)

BEROS also provide overnight support for up to 2 nights for young people who are self-placing. Overnight support workers are able to provide case work support to these young people and support young people to engage with the case management team upon handover the following day.

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