Providing supportive family-based care
Foster Carers
Foster carers provide safe and caring homes in a family setting
for children and young people unable to live at home because of
child protection concerns.
Foster care may be for short or long periods of time while
families are assisted to work through the issues that placed
their children at risk. Whenever possible, children and young
people return home to live with their own families when it is
safe for them to do so.
Foster Care Programs
Our Foster & Kinship Care Programs recruit, assess train and
support foster and kinship carers. Foster Carers are
people with the willingness and capacity to care for other
children and who, after a period of training and assessment, are
approved as suitable carers. Kinship Carers are people
form within the child's own family or community who assume the
responsibility of caring for children.
We are continually looking to recruit foster carers from a range
of backgrounds reflecting the diversity of children and young
people requiring placement. People with a range of life
experiences are needed so that the complex needs of children in
care can be appropriately matched.
Foster Care Workers arrange placements, implement care
plans and support foster carers in meeting the emotional,
behavioural and other needs of the children in their care.
Carers receive an allowance to assist with the cost of looking
after children in foster care.
We have close partnerships with other agencies providing advice
and support to children and young people in foster care. This
includes working with the Department of Communities - Child Safety
Services workers who
have overall legal responsibility for foster carers and children
on Child Protection Orders and with other professionals who
provide assessment and specialist advice for children and young
people, their families and carers.
Specialist Foster Care Programs
This program offers additional support to carers
of children with significant needs. Our workers, foster carers,
Department of Communities - Child Safety Services workers, teachers and workers from
other agencies are responsible for working co-operatively
together to understand the particular needs of the child or
young person, provide them with the best possible care
arrangements and to maximise their life opportunities. As
children in specialist foster care have more complex behaviours,
we are seeking families with an extra level of commitment and an
additional capacity to meet the child's needs.
Our Foster & Kinship Care Programs
are based in Goodna, Logan/South Brisbane, North Brisbane, Toowoomba;
with our Specialist Foster Care Programs in Goodna,
Logan/South Brisbane & Toowoomba.
Interested in finding
out more about becoming a Foster Carer?
Contact us
Contact: Shenade Sawyer
Tel: (07) 3267 9070
Email:
nudgee.admin@mfsq.org.au
Contact: Shenade Sawyer
Tel: (07) 3340 5600
Email: logan.admin@mfsq.org.au
Contact: Trish Sheahan
Tel: (07) 3280 8000
Email: goodna.admin@mfsq.org.au
Contact: Tony Brown/Vivien Dunlop
Tel: (07) 4617 7600
Email:
toowoomba.admin@mfsq.org.au
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