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.

Alternative Case 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 Child Safety 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 Child Safety 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, Zillmere, Toowoomba; with our Specialist Foster Care Programs in Goodna & Logan.       

Contact us

Contact: Shenade Sawyer
Tel: (07) 3865 7456
Email: zillmere.admin@mfsq.org.au

Contact: Shenade Sawyer
Tel: (07) 3340 5600
Email: logan.admin@mfsq.org.au

Contact: Trish Sheahan
Tel: (07) 3818 2622
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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