Forum members
The Statewide Partnership Forum is made up of the following community and government agencies working together in child protection, to achieve our shared purpose:
- Child Safety Directors Network
- Churches of Christ Care
- Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian
- CREATE Foundation
- Department of Child Safety
- Department of Communities
- Family Inclusion Network
- Foster Care Queensland
- Lifeline Community Care
- PeakCare Queensland
- Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Partnership
- WuChopperen Health Service
Child Safety Directors Network
The Child Safety Directors Network (CSDN) plays a key role in providing leadership, coordination, communication, strategic planning and operational aspects of the child protection system in Queensland. Network representatives are responsible for ensuring that programs and expertise within their respective departments, are made available for providing appropriate child protection services.
Churches of Christ Care
Next to the Department of Child Safety, Churches of Christ Care is the largest provider of foster care in Queensland. Foster care services provide a safe and caring home environment for children and young people with a variety of individual needs, from different cultural backgrounds and home situations, who are unable to live with their own families. Through the Pathways program, Care is a major provider of child protection and emergency support services for families and young people in crisis, providing foster/kinship care, respite care, assessment and intervention services, and residential and semi-independent care, to children and young people under child protection orders.
Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian
The Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian promotes and protects the rights, interests and wellbeing of all Queenslanders under 18 years of age.
CREATE Foundation
The vision of CREATE Foundation is to ensure that children and young people in care are afforded the same life opportunities as all young Australians. The services provided by CREATE Foundation include:
- systems advocacy services:
- contributing to the formulation of policy and service delivery relevant to children and young people in care
- providing training and training resources to Department of Child Safety staff and carers
- training and supporting Young Consultants (in or ex-care) to provide training.
- peer advocacy services - activities that provide opportunities for children and young people to support, assist and advocate for other children and young people in care (for example, focus groups conducted to provide consumer feedback, support Young Consultants to speak at events, Children surveyed for CREATE report cards).
Department of Communities
The Department of Communities is a Queensland Government agency committed to promoting and supporting excellence in the delivery of human services to Queenslanders.
Family Inclusion Network
Family Inclusion Network (FIN) consists of a network of practitioners and academics who are committed to the inclusion of biological parents and significant others in the child protection process.
Foster Care Queensland
Foster Care Queensland (FCQ) is committed to informing, supporting, representing and advocating for foster carers and the children and young people for whom they care. As the peak body representing all foster carers throughout the state, FCQ is committed to working in partnership with government, non-government and community sectors to enhance policy, practice and service delivery in foster care.
Lifeline Community Care
The Families Plus Division within Lifeline Community Care provides a range of services including accommodation, counselling, domestic violence services, family support, Foster and Kinship Care etc. Lifeline Community Care is represented on the forum to bring the perspective of support services.
The objectives of the Intensive Family Service Program within the Families Plus Division are to:
- strengthen families capacities to meet the needs of their children
- improve the safety and well being of children
- assist families to access community resources both during and after the intervention.
PeakCare Queensland
PeakCare Queensland is a peak organisation in Queensland which promotes excellence in the development and delivery of non government services for the protection and care of children and young people and the support of their families.
Members of PeakCare are service providers across the child protection continuum of care.
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Partnership
The vision of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Partnership is that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people:
- are safe and well cared for within their families and communities
- understand and identify with their culture
- access the same life opportunities afforded to other children and young people.
Their mission is to develop policies and strategies to lead, resource and build the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agencies who work alongside parents, families and communities to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
WuChopperen Health Service
The mission of the WuChopperen Health Service is to improve the health status of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders through the provision of culturally valid holistic primary health care services. WuChopperen Health Service also provides a Recognised Entity Service and is represented on the forum to bring the perspective of Recognised Entities. Recognised Entities actively participate in significant decisions made by the Department of Child Safety regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The Recognised Entity also provides information to Indigenous families throughout these phases of the statutory child protection system.
- Last updated
- 29 May 2008