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If you would like to attend an upcoming foster care information session, you can reply to our welcome email or email fostercare@ozchild.org.au with your preferred date.
Thank you for registering your interest in becoming a foster carer with OzChild. Our Caring Team approach supports every OzChild carer household.
Our dedicated case managers provide a holistic approach to the child or young person in your care and all members of your caring family, while our national Thriving Families carer strategy aims to improve the carer household experience continually.
You can rest assured that we will support you every step of the way.
Thriving Families Change Lives is OzChild’s 2020-2023 Carer Strategy.
Respect, support, communication and above all, relationship are the foundations of our Thriving Families carer strategy. Through this three-year strategy, we will demonstrate and lead real change in how the community and sector view the role of carers.
Want to know what being a foster carer is really like? Tune in to the Who Cares? podcast to hear directly from the carers themselves!
Khyl’s time in care hasn’t been easy, he comes with baggage, his trauma.
This World Care Day Khyl shares his story about being in out-of-home care and living with OzChild foster Carer, Emily.
Kai* entered foster care in January 2020 aged 14. When he arrived, he had been diagnosed with moderate depression, social anxiety and moderate OCD and he had been refusing to take his medication for some time.
Bella and her parents were referred to OzChild’s Stepping Stones to School (SS2S) program by her kindergarten teacher. Five-year-old Bella was attending her second year of four-year-old kinder.
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