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Foster carer support
We believe that providing a high level of foster carer support is crucial to the stability of a fostering placement. It is also central to our Team Parenting™ approach to foster care, which is at the heart of Key Assets Fostering.
The children and young people who come into foster care in South Australia with Key Assets Fostering are usually referred due to their high and complex needs, which can place considerable demands on foster carers.
For this reason, every foster carer with Key Assets Fostering receives comprehensive fostering support from a multidisciplinary team of professionals who are on hand whenever necessary to maintain stability for our foster children.
Key Assets Fostering carer support
If you decide to become a foster carer with Key Assets Fostering, you will have access to the following professional foster carer support services:
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year access to the agency
- Frequent contact from your qualified Supervising Social Worker
- Children’s and Young People’s Support Service (CYPSS) workers
- An Education Liaison Officer to support a child in their education
- A Key Assets Fostering Therapist who will provide therapeutic support
- 21 days paid respite every year
- Support group meetings with staff and fellow foster carers
- Organised activities for children and young people
- Comprehensive post-approval foster carer training
Become a foster carer
At Key Assets Fostering, we believe that every child in foster care has the right to grow up in a family based environment.
We appreciate that the complex needs of some of these children can be challenging for foster carers and we seek to provide them adequate foster carer support and competitive fostering payments to encourage consistency of care.
Find out more about our comprehensive foster carer support services and how to become a foster carer with Key Assets Fostering. Call us today on (08) 8274 5900 or enquire online.
