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November was Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Month, which highlights the significant time in a young person’s life when they transition from care and into adulthood.
Each year, more than 500 young people leave the Queensland child protection system in their transition to adulthood. Read the CREATE Foundation’s wrap-up of T2A Month and how they help young people who are navigating the journey through conversations, events and resources.
In 2018, the Queensland Government invested in trialling two evidence-based models found to have success in diverting families from the statutory child protection system — Functional Family Therapy-Child Welfare and SafeCare.
The Queensland Government is responsible for ensuring help and support is available to young people in their transition from statutory care to adulthood...
A recent update to the Carer Connect app, used by carers to access important information about children and young people in their care, means that they will now receive a notification on their phone when there has been a change made to the ‘Who am I’ section by other carers, such as a respite carer.
The Unify Program will improve care arrangement outcomes for a child or young person by providing Child Safety staff and placement service providers (service providers) with the ability to share and access the right information in a timely way to make more informed decisions.
Family Matters is Australia's national campaign to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children grow up safe and connected to family, community, culture and country. A new Reflective Practice Tool is available to support services to build cultural competency and internal cultural capacity.
Local level alliances across Queensland are made up of representatives from government and non-government organisations and are responsible for identifying the family support services that local communities need, and how that need can be met...
On 12 November the Garbutt Community Centre’s Tiddas Yarning Circle and the Queensland Family and Child Commission launched the Yarn Up cards, a resource made up of powerful statements and discussion points to support talking about family.
Indigenous family support organisation R.E.F.O.C.U.S (Redirecting and Empowering Families through Culturally Unique Services) is celebrating a decade of helping empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast region...
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