Former Hunter youth workers say they were "out of their depth"

By Gabriel Wingate-Pearse
Updated February 19 2016 - 1:03pm, first published 12:30pm
CHALLENGE: Former Youth Hope workers say the program has been heavily relied on to provide crisis support, rather than early intervention.
CHALLENGE: Former Youth Hope workers say the program has been heavily relied on to provide crisis support, rather than early intervention.

FORMER frontline staff have slammed the Youth Hope pilot program for young people at-risk, saying they were swamped by crises which they lacked the expertise to deal with.

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