Intervention
We Deliver Four Diverse Types of Support
Placement Support
Placement Support promotes the stability and success of placements for young people by equipping foster and kinship carers and residential providers with essential skills, strategies, and psychoeducation. Our primary focus is to address the Child Protection concerns to enhance safety within placements, fostering long-term stability and nurturing strong, positive relationships to ensure lasting success.
In-Home Support
In-Home Support increases the capacity for the primary carer to address the child protection concerns for children and sustain a safe placement. It offers trauma-informed, hands-on support in the home, and coordination of collaborative stakeholder engagement. The service operates under direction from Child Safety to ensure safety, stability, or reunification, without needing specific client consent.
Transition To Adulthood
Transitional Support empowers young people to thrive as they transition into adulthood and independence. The Arches Foundation strengthens their confidence, equipping them to safely meet their own needs and lead safe, fulfilling lives within the community after leaving care.
Assertive Outreach
Assertive Outreach supports stability by offering crucial assistance through observations and direct engagement with young people in unapproved or potentially unsafe environments. This support meets them where they are, amplifying their voices in goal-setting and personal development.
Client-Centred Approach
Client-centred with flexibility to meet the needs of each individual and placement dynamic.
360 Review of Needs
Provision of Care Clinics or discussions for external agencies. A 360 review of the placement support needs to up-skill the team and provide a road map.
24/7 Support
24/7 On Call support to assist with navigating crisis.
Increase Resilience
Various resources to ensure staff wellbeing and professional development increasing their resilience and longevity to support complex cases.
Foster & Kinship
We offer dedicated support to foster and kinship carers who need assistance in meeting the diverse needs of the young people in their care and the competing needs of the Child Protection industry. We provide personalised, hands-on guidance and psycho-education on trauma and therapeutic care, empowering carers with the knowledge and skills to create a sustainably nurturing home environment.
Residential
We offer comprehensive support for community residential or community services that care for young people long-term. Our focus is on enhancing organisational and team capabilities to deliver effective therapeutic support, ensuring a sustainably nurturing environment for young people in residential placements.
For reunification, placement stability and observations/support of unapproved placements.
Safety Intervention
Children and parents where children are subject to child safety intervention.
Risk of Placement Breakdown
Children who are in an approved placement where placement breakdown risk is apparent.
Self-Placing Concerns
Children who are self-placing where there is a considered safety concern.
Independent Living Skills
Managing money
Building social skills
Self-care skills
Practical daily living skills
Getting around
Communication and literacy
Education & Employment
Assistance to complete secondary school
Choosing further education
Relevant training programs and/or work experience
Job readiness skills and support (resume, referees,
career planning, interviews)
Supported employment programs
Health & Wellbeing
Accessing physical, mental, and sexual health
Medicare card and Health Care card
Connecting with a regular GP, prescriptions
Dental care
General wellbeing (exercise, sleep, diet)
Medicare and various subsidies available
Safe & Stable Housing
Identifying and applying for housing options
Referrals to housing and homelessness services
Navigating Co-tenants
Furniture
Tenancy responsibilities
Financial Literacy
Financial independence (budgeting, paying bills)
Navigating Centrelink benefits
Child-related costs
Bank accounts and credit cards
Tax file number
Tax return
Culture & Personal Identity
Understanding family history
Developing self-value, belief, and identity
Developing belonging to a cultural community
Certificate of Aboriginality
Relationships & Connections
Developing and/or maintaining connections with
family, community/cultural links, support networks
Social connections through sport or other interests
Mentoring
Support developing social skills
Relationships and sexuality
Tailored support that fosters a unique and trusting relationship, distinct from those in other placement settings.
Provide access and pathways to education and employment.
Conducting a needs assessment.
Safety planning and reviewing Circles of Safety.
Support in sourcing safe and stable housing.
Increase self-awareness of cause and effect through connecting feelings to behaviour.
Psycho-education and role-modelling around healthy relationships.
Encourage exploration of interests and participation in activities to build positive social connections.
Provide mentorship and advocacy on behalf of the child.
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