St Joseph’s Catholic Flexible School has been operating on its current site since 2012 as a Catholic Secondary School in the Edmund Rice tradition.
It is also part of the Diocese of Darwin and the Northern Territory Catholic Education Office. It receives additional support from the Northern Territory government through a service agreement. St Joseph’s Flexi is an initiative of Edmund Rice Education Australia, offering a full-time and multi-year secondary education and social inclusion program for young people who have disenfranchised from mainstream structures. Young people may express a broad range of complex education and social needs, and the Flexible School services respond with a variety of flexible and innovative social
inclusion and learning experiences. Young people who attend include indigenous and non-indigenous young people who are disengaged from mainstream education for a range of reasons and include:
Those who have had contact with the juvenile justice system;- Those in the care of the Office of Children and Families;
- Those with a history of trauma;
- Those with a history of extended periods of unexplained absences;
- Those who are highly mobile;
- Those with mental illness or at risk of engaging in self harming behaviours or substance abuse;
- Those who have been excluded or repeatedly suspended from school;
- Those who are homeless;
- Those who are young parents;
- Those with a generational history of early school leaving; and
- Those with a generational history of unemployment
