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Promising practices in out-of-home care for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
carers, children and young people:
profiling promising programs
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs on behalf of the Australian Council of Children and Parenting commissioned the National Child Protection Clearinghouse in collaboration with the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) to undertake a project profiling promising practices in the recruitment, assessment, training and support of carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and the provision of services to Indigenous children in care.
A series of booklets discussing the findings can be downloaded below.
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Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2007.
- Characteristics of promising Indigenous out-of-home care programs and services PDF (508 KB) | Word (182 KB)
- Assessing, training and recruiting Indigenous carers PDF (814 KB) | Word (286 KB)
- Comprehensive support for Indigenous carers and young people PDF (639 KB) | Word (265 KB)
- Indigenous responses to child protection issues PDF (766 KB) | Word (215 KB)
Your feedback on the usefulness of these booklets would be greatly appreciated. Please download the Promising Practices Feedback sheet (Word document) and return it to the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC).