Prevention and Strengthening Families

Through the delivery of early intervention and prevention programs, our Prevention and Strengthening services support and repair family relationships.

The goal of our Prevention and Strengthening services is to empower families to repair and strengthen their relationships. In doing so, they’re able to create a safer home environment that ensures the wellbeing of children and young people. 

Our Prevention and Strengthening programs

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Functional Family Therapy – Youth Justice (FFT-YJ)
Functional Family Therapy – Youth Justice (FFT-YJ)

FFT-YJ is a successful evidence-based program that achieves results for children and young people by working closely with their families to reduce the intergenerational effects of sustained contact with the justice system

Family Law Services
Family Law Services

Family law services help parents, grandparents and foster carers to focus on the best interests of their children.

Putting Families First (PFF)
Putting Families First (PFF)

The Putting Families First (PFF) program works to streamline a one-stop approach to supporting complex high-risk families who are involved in the child protection and criminal justice systems. Many face…

Access to Early Learning (AEL)
Access to Early Learning (AEL)

Access to Early Learning is an effective and targeted early intervention program funded by the Department of Education and Training that enables three-year-old children from families with complex needs to fully participate in quality, universal early education and care by addressing barriers to their participation, whether it be system barriers, family barriers or interpersonal barriers. 

Family Worx
Family Worx

Family Worx, brings together our experience in the delivery of evidence-based programs (FFT-CW and SafeCare) and evidence informed practice (Common Elements).

Stepping Stones to School
Stepping Stones to School

Stepping Stones to School is an early intervention school-readiness program which supports at-risk families.

Koorie Early Years Network (KEYN)
Koorie Early Years Network (KEYN)

OzChild facilitates and is a founding member of the Koorie Early Years Network (KEYN) which operates in South-West Victoria.

Chance to Shine Scholarship
Chance to Shine Scholarship

The Chance to Shine Scholarship provides financial assistance to young people – in a OzChild foster care program – to help them achieve their life goals.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Functional Family Therapy (FFT)

Functional Family Therapy supports families who have been affected by an adolescent behaving in an aggressive way within the home.

Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW)
Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare (FFT-CW)

Functional Family Therapy – Child Welfare® works with children, young people and their family or kin to help them strengthen relationships, improve communication and respond to challenging behaviours.

Integrated Family Services
Integrated Family Services

This service provides support to children and families living in the Bayside Peninsula area, where there are concerns about child and family wellbeing.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST)
Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is a family and home-based treatment that strives to change how young people function in their natural settings in ways that promote positive social behaviour.

Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN)
Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST-CAN)

Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect® is an in-home intervention model working with families with serious clinical needs, as directed by child protection (due to physical abuse or neglect).

Orange Door
Orange Door

The Orange Door is a multi-agency partnership bringing together Family Violence services, Family Support Services and Men’s Behaviour Change programs.

SafeCare
SafeCare

The SafeCare Model is an evidence-based parenting program for parents of children aged 0-5 who are at-risk of, or have been reported for child neglect or physical abuse.

School Focused Youth Services (SFYS)
School Focused Youth Services (SFYS)

School Focused Youth Services (SFYS) support young people at school, ensuring they remain connected and engaged with education, and have the best chance to excel.

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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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