We are working to strengthen Koori families and develop healthy and supportive family units.

Integrated Family Services:

Integrated Family Services (IFS) provides specific targets to be delivered to Aboriginal Families, and such provides a comprehensive range of services and approaches.

Our team are responsible for helping and assisting our families to stay together or, to be reunited with their family. They achieve this by connecting our families with the necessary support systems, exactly when, and where they need it most.

Aboriginal Family Preservation:

The Aboriginal Family Preservation Program services work intensively with families over a period of up to 12 weeks, who have been referred by Child Protection with the aim of family preservation or reunification.

The program provides an intensive, short-term service aimed at strengthening the ability of families to protect and care for their children, thereby preventing the need for placement in out-of-home care.

Where it has been necessary for a child or young person to be placed away from the family home, the program works to facilitate reunification.

Aboriginal Stronger Families:

Stronger Families provides an integrated placement prevention and family reunification service, providing intensive case work support to vulnerable children and families for up to 12 months, together with specialist therapeutic care and early parenting and specialist infant support.

Services work with parents to address underlying issues that may lead to, or that have resulted in the need for their child to be placed in out-of-home care, and to build capacity of parents to safely care for their children.