State: VIC

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

Children and young people often require short-term emergency accommodation at a moment’s notice. This can often be while a long-term placement is being planned or when other suitable home-based care…

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

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

The Families First program aims to help children and young people remain at home, as well as supporting those in out-of-home foster care when they return home.

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

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.

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.

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

Are you passionate about being a positive role model for young people? Find out how you can become a lead tenant mentor with OzChild.

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.

The Intensive Therapeutic Program provides support to children and families living in the Bayside Peninsula area, where there are concerns about child and family wellbeing.