Foster & Kinship Care
Foundations Care recruits, assesses, trains, and supports individuals and couples to become approved foster carers. Once approved, carers are supported to provide safe and meaningful outcomes for children and young people.
Foundations Care provides individualised, evidence-based support services for vulnerable children and young people. The organisation is committed to ensuring access to safe, personalised care informed by contemporary approaches, and delivered by a skilled support team.
Residential Care
Foundations Care provides a non-family based placement care option for children and young people who are unable to be placed in a Foster and Kinship Care placement.
The homes are supported by Foundations Care staff and focus on promoting healing and recovery from the trauma of abuse, neglect, and separation from family.
Youth Justice Services
Foundations Care works alongside vulnerable young people at risk of offending.
Whether it be support with housing, transport, mentoring or engagement with Youth Justice, our innovative programs achieve positive outcomes to help young people get back on track.
Casework Support Scheme
In New South Wales, Foundations Care provides the Department of Communities and Justice with additional support services to meet the needs of children and young people in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) placements.
These services can include supervised transport, supervised contact and mentoring.
Youth Initiative - YI
The Youth Initiative (YI) program is a support service based in New South Wales for young people leaving statutory Out-of-Home Care. Its purpose is to support young people who are identified as being vulnerable to experiencing homelessness on exit of care.
The Foundations Care YI team provide Personal Advisors, Transitional Support and Education & Employment Mentorship to build the long-term capacity and resilience of young people in order to permanently divert them from the homelessness service system.
SILS (Supported Independent Living Service)
Foundations Care provides Supported Independent Living placements for young people who are in the process of transitioning to independent living. The purpose of the Supported Independent Living Service is to support young people with:
- developing and enhancing their practical independent living skills;
- social transition including relationships, community participation and ensuring they have a network of support;
- economic and financial transition including education/training and employment and income.
