Foster and Kinship Care

Our foster and kinship care programs provide safe and loving homes for children and young people in need, whilst providing full training and support to our community of carers.

Our Foster and Kinship Care Programs

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Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO)
Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO)

Treatment Foster Care Oregon is a specialised foster care program that supports children and young people with complex behaviours.

Foster Care
Foster Care

Our foster care program places children and young people – who are unable to live at home – in temporary foster care.

Give a Baby a Loving Start, Foster with OzChild
Give a Baby a Loving Start, Foster with OzChild

Our foster care program places babies who are unable to live at home in temporary foster care.

Kinship Care
Kinship Care

Our kinship care services support children who are unable to live with their birth parents by placing them with a relative or people who they’ve had a significant relationship with.

Targeted Care Packages (TCP)
Targeted Care Packages (TCP)

The Targeted Care Packages program supports children and young people to sustain their current placements, as well as with the establishment of new placements.

Lead Tenant Mentor
Lead Tenant Mentor

Lead Tenant provides semi-independent out-of-home care accommodation for young people and promotes independent living skills in a safe and supported environment.

Kinship Care First Supports
Kinship Care First Supports

This program provides a holistic view of the current and ongoing needs of children in kinship care, as well as that of the kinship carers themselves.

The Circle Program
The Circle Program

This program takes a therapeutic approach to foster care, providing trauma-informed foster care through training and various parenting strategies.

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Mnay children and young people are becoming increasingly vulnerable. The need for new foster carers has never been greated to ensure we can give kids a chance. Could you care enough to give a child or young person a chance?

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Acknowledgement of Country


OzChild acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work. We acknowledge their cultures are living ones, which relate to their ongoing connection to all things living and non-living on land, sea and sky.

We pay our respect to Elders past and present.

May the children of today lead us to a brighter tomorrow.

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