Download File Promising Practices – Book 4 Indigenous responses to child protection issues Services providing culturally relevant child protection support for families involved in the child protection system bring an Indigenous perspective to child protection issues. They draw on the strengths of the communities and extended families of the children who are placed in out-of-home […]

Download File Twelve workshops for professionals in the field were delivered in 2007 across Australia to share the key characteristics and learnings from the project. These booklets profile what works well for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care, and promotes strategies to help organisations overcome barriers to effective practice.

Download File Promising Practices – Book 2 Assessing, training and recruiting Indigenous carers Successful assessment and training programs are carer-centred, responding to carers’ needs and feedback in their assessment and training programs. This is particularly the case with Indigenous assessment tools, which use a more relaxed, conversational style of getting information, and use community knowledge […]

Download File Promising Practices – Book 3 Comprehensive support for Indigenous Carers and young people Successful program managers and CEOs told us that developing strong relationships with external stakeholders was the key to getting funding agencies on board. Establishing effective relationships with external stakeholders also meant that agency staff became spokespeople for their organisation in […]