Youth Off The Streets is an Australian non-denominational not-for-profit youth organisation. The organisation works with young people and their families and communities in an endeavour to create safety, offer support and provide opportunities to build a positive future. Youth Off The Streets was founded by Father Chris Riley in the 1990s. The organisation now delivers a range of wraparound supports for young people, including crisis accommodation and housing services, independent high schools, alcohol and other drugs counselling, youth justice support, life skills and employment programs, cultural support and community engagement. Father Chris Riley was the CEO of Youth Off The Streets until May 2020, when he transitioned into the role of Founder and was replaced by former Deputy CEO Lex Nadine Lutherborrow. Currently, Fiona Campbell is serving as Youth Off The Streets’ Acting CEO. History Youth Off The Streets began as a single food van that provided meals to homeless young people in Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales. Father Chris Riley then spent the next three decades developing Youth Off The Streets into a "leading non-denominational youth services organisation". Don Bosco House, the first Youth Off The Streets refuge to service homeless youth in Sydney’s Inner West, was opened in April 1991. In April 1995, Riley started the Dunlea Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program in Merrylands, Western Sydney. As of January 2023, the program is called Dunlea Alcohol and Other Drugs Youth Service. In 1996, Youth Off The Streets opened its first independent high school: Key College, Redfern. Key College caters to young people aged between 14 and 18 who have become disconnected from mainstream education. Youth Off The Streets is now responsible for the management of six accredited independent high schools across Greater Sydney, the Illawarra region and the New South Wales Central Coast. Riley also developed and implemented strategies that were supposed to help young people deal with trauma, abuse and neglect. Several of these strategies – including the Values Education Service Learning Curriculum – have been adopted by schools and government agencies across Australia. As of 2023, Youth Off The Streets offers integrated support services and programs for young people and families, enabled and delivered by approximately 200 staff and 330 volunteers. Additionally, Riley assisted young people overseas in East Timor after independence in 2002. Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Youth Off The Streets helped build an orphanage in Aceh, Indonesia. The