Foster care
When a child cannot be looked after by their family,
Anglicare is commissioned to find alternative or foster
care.
Children are unable to remain with their families for
a whole range of reasons: safety, neglect or behaviour
problems.
Across the metropolitan area, on any one night,
Anglicare is overseeing the care of 600 children are in foster care.
Anglicare staff do not decide whether children remain
with their own families. That decision is made by the
State Government’s Department for Families and Children.
But if that decision is made, Anglicare is responsible
for arranging care and support.
 Most children will be cared for in foster families,
but for some, supervised care or group housing is more
appropriate.
Anglicare recruits and trains foster families, and
runs programs to support kids in care and their foster
families.
More volunteer foster families are always needed.
If you would like to enquire about being a foster
carer, call us on (08) 8256 2185, or email us at
fostercare@anglicare-sa.org.au.
Information nights are being held from July until
November. Find
details here.
For more information,
about foster care, have a look at our information
pack.
Or you might like to have a look at the Families SA
website,
http://www.families.sa.gov.au/fostercare
To see our
Alternative Care northern bulletin, click here.
You don’t have to be a full time carer!
If you’d like
to volunteer to help children in care, and you only have a weekend or
hours to spare, you can still support kids in care.
Can you
• help with homework?
• spend some time with kids with disabilities?
• help a young person develop life skills?
Training and support provided, and your expenses
covered. To find out more, call
Kerry Gray on (08) 8392
3170 or
kgray@anglicare-sa.org.au
If you'd like more information about volunteering
generally with Anglicare SA, click here to go to our
volunteer page.
Break Away is a weekend residential program
for young people, offering respite to carer families,
and new and challenging activities for the young person
in care.
Break Away
• provides young people with safe, supportive and
quality care; new recreation opportunities and the
chance to develop peer networks;
• promotes the well-being and self-esteem of young
people;
• provides young people with a ‘break away’ from their
foster carer(s) or birth family. Break Away provides
foster carers and birth families with respite from the
daily challenges of caring for young people with complex
needs;
• provides the community with an opportunity to
participate as mentors, and make a real difference in
the lives of young people.
The Break Away program provides targeted respite for:
• Young people aged 8–13 years
• Young people in Alternative Care at risk of placement
disruption
• Young people from birth families, as a strategy to
prevent placement
Break Away runs for male and female groups in
alternating weekends.
The Break Away program does not provide emergency
placement for young people.
The program co-ordinator assesses the suitability of
the young person for the Break Away program.
To enquire about being a volunteer with the Break
Away service, call us on (08) 8186 8900
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