Boys Town in Sydney Australia is available to assist boys and girls with difficult behavior or emotional issues. This establishment includes the family in its therapy. The residential intensive program lasts 6 to 12 months. Students can return home on the weekends to practice what they have learned. They receive routine counseling in addition to their academic studies and life skills courses.
Boys Town offers a non-residential day program called the HART program. Students participate in educational and counseling services. Although the name of this institution has Boys in its title, the center has opened its doors to girls as well.
East Sydney High School provides substantial assistance to students with welfare matters that impact their ability to access general education. These include physical and mental health, accommodations, legal and criminal matters and drug and alcohol abuse. The school also offers outreach services and interacts regularly with medical centers and hospitals, refuge services and the juvenile justice department and court system.