Acknowledgments
Acknowledgment is extended to the following for their knowledge, expertise and support in the development of the Quality care: Foster care training package.
Carer Learning and Development Working Party members:
- Foster Care Queensland (FCQ)
- PeakCare Queensland
- CREATE Foundation
- Indigenous Family and Child Support Service
- Shared Family Care representatives
- Departmental staff.
Other individuals and organisations who participated in consultations and contributed to the development of the package:
- Foster carers
- Life without Barriers
- Shared Family Care co-ordinators
- Departmental alternative care staff
- Anne Butcher, PHD student, Department of Child Safety.
The Department of Child Safety acknowledges the following helpful materials in shaping the training package:
- Life without barriers - self assessment materials
- Caring for children and young people (National Extension College UK)
- CARE pre-accreditation training, Berry Street, Victoria
- Shared stories, shared lives, Association of Children's Welfare Agencies NSW
- Ready, set, fly! A parent's guide to teaching life skills 2001, Casey Family Programs
- Seen but not heard. children who live with domestic or family violence, Communities caring for kids coalition, Ipswich and Western Zone
- Protective behaviours series, Family Planning Queensland
- Real kids, real carers resource, Association of Children's Welfare Agencies
- Attachment, advance training module, Dr Clare Tilbury and Dr Jenny Osmond, Griffith University
- Foster Parent College online training
- Loss and grief for children in care, advance training module, Dr Judith Murray and Liz Crowe.
- Last updated
- 3 August 2007