Promising practices in out-of-home care for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
carers and young people:
strengths and barriers

Leah M Bromfield, Jenny R Higgins
Daryl J Higgins, and Nick Richardson

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 to undertake a project examining the strengths and barriers to the recruitment, assessment, training and support of carers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and the strengths and barriers in the provision of services to Indigenous children in care.
A series of papers discussing the findings can be downloaded below.
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Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2007

 

1. Why is there a shortage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Carers? PDF (392KB) | Word (69KB)
2. Barriers, incentives and strategies to enhance recruitment of Indigenous carers PDF (513KB) | Word (94KB)
3. Why standard assessment processes are culturally inappropriate PDF (340KB) | Word (93)
4. Training carers PDF (376KB) | Word (76KB)
5. Supporting carers PDF (334KB) | Word (195KB)
6. Children with complex needs PDF (551KB) | Word (175KB)
7. Voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in care PDF (501KB) | Word (96KB)

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