Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Mirrimpilyi Muurpa-nara Aboriginal Corporation

We provide Aboriginal children and families in Far West NSW with holistic and invidually tailored services to establish or develop a strong culturally appropriate safety-net by facilitating partnerships with Aboriginal agencies and specialists.

Our services support the needs of children and young people to maintain their connection to culture to grow up strong in spirit and identity.

Orange Aboriginal Medical Services – Yiriyirimbang OOHC Service

YIRIYIRIMBANG aims to strengthen a child and young person connection to family, community and country by established a sense of belonging for Aboriginal children in care.

They do this by:

• Aboriginal staff led Out Of Home Care service
• Focus on connections of child or young person so they don’t lose connection to culture
• Actively engaging in the children’s cultural planning and being proactive in life story work
• Promoting self-determination and family led decision making
• Build a register of Aboriginal potential Auntie’s and Uncles (foster carers) in our area
• Providing resources to Aboriginal children and families to support cultural knowledge
• Culturally safe restoration program acknowledging that safety and the best interest of the child is paramount.

Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Service

The Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) is the peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across NSW.

The AH&MRC works with our membership in NSW to ensure accessibility to an adequately resourced and skilled workforce who provide high quality comprehensive primary health care services for Aboriginal communities.

The AH&MRC works in collaboration with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health partners to systematically address the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Muloobinba Aboriginal Corporation

Muloobinba Aboriginal Corporation provides the Cultural Journeyz program that supports Aboriginal Children and Young People and their carers in foster care in the Hunter Region.

Wandiyali ATSI Inc

Aboriginal Children and Young people in the Hunter are in need of quality care, love, affection, a place to call home.

Being able to let a child feel trust and love again is so rewarding. It’s a privilege to provide and teach that.

There are children out there that need a home, love and a family, can you help?

Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre Inc

Winanga-Li recognises that all children and young people deserve a safe, respectful, caring and positive environment. Winanga-Li is dedicated to fostering healthy social development in children and young people and will include community members, carers and other professionals as an effective approach to assist in building a positive care environment.

To achieve this vision, Winanga-Li commits to strengthening and sustaining families to be a supportive and nurturing unit, with strong connections to the local community and other support networks.

Winanga-Li is committed to ensuring that children and young people are provided with a physical environment that is safe, comfortable and personalised and that the agency’s carers are supported in providing this environment through training and information sharing.

Winanga-Li will provide on-going monitoring and support the carer to ensure that the children and young person’s needs and rights are being fully met by their physical environment and that their physical environment can and does change as and when the children and young person’s need change.

Myimbarr – Illawarra Aboriginal Corporation

At Myimbarr Aboriginal OOHC we seek safe and caring foster homes for Aboriginal children, aged 0 to 18.

Our children need carers that are patient, nurturing and understanding. At Myimbarr, we offer our carers ongoing training and 24/7 support, so you don’t have to do it alone.

If you can open your home for respite, short term or restoration care please contact Myimbarr on (02) 4211 0601 or email oohciac@iac.org.au we’d love to chat with you.

South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (AMS)

The South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (SMSAC) is the only fully accredited Aboriginal NGO within the Shoalhaven and Far South Coast providing permanency support services. Our support team provides carers with access to ongoing training, scheduled carer meetings, regular reviews, respite care, community activities, service referrals, 24 hour on-call service and other supports as needed.

Aboriginal Family Community Care Centre Coffs Harbour (AbCare)

Abcare is an incorporated not-for-profit, non-government, community based organisation located in Coffs Harbour NSW, providing general foster care placements and recruitment, assessment and training of foster carers.

Biripi Aboriginal Corporation

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Services has two services for children and young persons living in out of home care situations. One of these services is located in Taree (BACS) and the other is located in Inverell (Walanbaa Gaayili).

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Service and Walanbaa Gaayili Out of Home Care Service provides Foster Care Support Services to foster and kinship/relative carers and is an inclusive not-for-profit organisation that provides a high quality fostering service that meets the range of needs of children and young people in out-of-home care. BACS is focussed on providing foster care to Aboriginal children and young people and the preference is that they be placed in or on country with Aboriginal foster and kinship carers.

Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation

Burrun Dalai means “dream for children” in Dunghutti. We are an Aboriginal community controlled organisation providing support to Aboriginal children and young people, their birth families and foster families.

Burrun Dalai’s vision is to maintain Aboriginal family values.

Ensuring this objective has traditionally involved the extended family members and community members in the care and development of children.

This is why it’s important that our carers or one carer in a family is of Aboriginal descent.

Ngunya Jarjum Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc

Ngunya Jarjum (meaning “all our children”) Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc. is a community based service, which is made up of dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people who are committed to improving services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families throughout the Far North Coast.

Orange Aboriginal Medical Services – Yiriyirimbang OOHC Service

YIRIYIRIMBANG aims to strengthen a child and young person connection to family, community and country by established a sense of belonging for Aboriginal children in care.

They do this by:

• Aboriginal staff led Out Of Home Care service
• Focus on connections of child or young person so they don’t lose connection to culture
• Actively engaging in the children’s cultural planning and being proactive in life story work
• Promoting self-determination and family led decision making
• Build a register of Aboriginal potential Auntie’s and Uncles (foster carers) in our area
• Providing resources to Aboriginal children and families to support cultural knowledge
• Culturally safe restoration program acknowledging that safety and the best interest of the child is paramount.

Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Service

The Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) is the peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across NSW.

The AH&MRC works with our membership in NSW to ensure accessibility to an adequately resourced and skilled workforce who provide high quality comprehensive primary health care services for Aboriginal communities.

The AH&MRC works in collaboration with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health partners to systematically address the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Woomera Aboriginal Corporation

Woomera is a community based not-for-profit organisation founded in 1990 that offers a range of housing, early education, out of home care and targeted early intervention services to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Albury and surrounds.

Goodradigbee Cultural & Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

The Goodradigbee and Uniting partnership provides culturally supported foster care and kinship placements for Aboriginal children and young people between the age of 0-17 who are not able to live at home. These placements can be either short-term, long-term or on a respite basis, across Western and South Western Sydney.

Goodradigbee’s mission statement is: “Putting Families & Culture First”. Together with Uniting, we work alongside foster carers, families, children and young people to help them secure a safe and nurturing home through restoration to their birth family, guardianship through their kinship or foster carers, or through long-term care placements.

We strive to ensure that every child or young person maintains their cultural connections. Our carers are supported to provide quality care for the children and young people they care for through regular engagement, training and support from Aboriginal caseworkers.

We encourage and consider all people to become carers including people who are single and couples (including LGBTI). We welcome anyone thinking of becoming a foster carer to contact us and allow us the privilege of supporting you to become a carer.

Kari Ltd

KARI is the largest Aboriginal foster care service provider in Australia.

KARI has developed a unique foster care model that delivers full case management of our children and young people in care. This means we can ensure that Aboriginal culture plays a significant role in the care of a child or young person.

KARI is committed to providing quality, sustainable services to Aboriginal communities, especially in the areas of Aboriginal child protection and Aboriginal community support programs.

We envision a future of flourishing Aboriginal families, youth and communities.

Narang Bir-rong Aboriginal Corporation

Narang Bir-rong believes that Aboriginal/TSI children are best raised by their own families however, when they are unable to remain at home, they should maintain connections with their community and kin. Narang Bir-rong offers support to carers who have children or young persons in their care as a result of family kinship ties and monitors the care of these children. All potential carers are assessed regardless of their relationship to the child or young person as the need for support and supervision are always based on the findings of the assessment. Narang Bir-rong ensures that the child or young person’s family or kinship group are involved in all aspects of work such as case planning, providing support, reviewing and monitoring case plans and planning for children or young people to exit care.

Narang Bir-rong ensures that only people best able to meet the individual needs of children and young people are recruited as authorised carers and that carers receive appropriate training and ongoing support for their roles. Narang Bir-rong also provides carers with opportunities to participate in decisions such as case planning and implementation and developing exit plans, and that carers have their rights upheld.

Aboriginal Family Community Care Centre Coffs Harbour (AbCare)

Abcare is an incorporated not-for-profit, non-government, community based organisation located in Coffs Harbour NSW, providing general foster care placements and recruitment, assessment and training of foster carers.

Armajun Health Service Aboriginal Corporation

Armajun aims to provide culturally appropriate Aboriginal health care services and the promotion of healthy lifestyles, well-being and good health with the support and participation of our communities.

Armajun A.H.S. offers comprehensive, holistic primary health care services to the Armidale, Glen Innes, Inverell, Tenterfield and Tingha communities.

Biripi Aboriginal Corporation

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Services has two services for children and young persons living in out of home care situations. One of these services is located in Taree (BACS) and the other is located in Inverell (Walanbaa Gaayili).

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Service and Walanbaa Gaayili Out of Home Care Service provides Foster Care Support Services to foster and kinship/relative carers and is an inclusive not-for-profit organisation that provides a high quality fostering service that meets the range of needs of children and young people in out-of-home care. BACS is focussed on providing foster care to Aboriginal children and young people and the preference is that they be placed in or on country with Aboriginal foster and kinship carers.

Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation

Burrun Dalai means “dream for children” in Dunghutti. We are an Aboriginal community controlled organisation providing support to Aboriginal children and young people, their birth families and foster families.

Burrun Dalai’s vision is to maintain Aboriginal family values.

Ensuring this objective has traditionally involved the extended family members and community members in the care and development of children.

This is why it’s important that our carers or one carer in a family is of Aboriginal descent.

Ngunya Jarjum Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc

Ngunya Jarjum (meaning “all our children”) Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc. is a community based service, which is made up of dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people who are committed to improving services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families throughout the Far North Coast.

Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre Inc

Winanga-Li recognises that all children and young people deserve a safe, respectful, caring and positive environment. Winanga-Li is dedicated to fostering healthy social development in children and young people and will include community members, carers and other professionals as an effective approach to assist in building a positive care environment.

To achieve this vision, Winanga-Li commits to strengthening and sustaining families to be a supportive and nurturing unit, with strong connections to the local community and other support networks.

Winanga-Li is committed to ensuring that children and young people are provided with a physical environment that is safe, comfortable and personalised and that the agency’s carers are supported in providing this environment through training and information sharing.

Winanga-Li will provide on-going monitoring and support the carer to ensure that the children and young person’s needs and rights are being fully met by their physical environment and that their physical environment can and does change as and when the children and young person’s need change.

Aboriginal Family Community Care Centre Coffs Harbour (AbCare)

Abcare is an incorporated not-for-profit, non-government, community based organisation located in Coffs Harbour NSW, providing general foster care placements and recruitment, assessment and training of foster carers.

Biripi Aboriginal Corporation

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Services has two services for children and young persons living in out of home care situations. One of these services is located in Taree (BACS) and the other is located in Inverell (Walanbaa Gaayili).

Biripi Aboriginal Children’s Service and Walanbaa Gaayili Out of Home Care Service provides Foster Care Support Services to foster and kinship/relative carers and is an inclusive not-for-profit organisation that provides a high quality fostering service that meets the range of needs of children and young people in out-of-home care. BACS is focussed on providing foster care to Aboriginal children and young people and the preference is that they be placed in or on country with Aboriginal foster and kinship carers.

Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation

Burrun Dalai means “dream for children” in Dunghutti. We are an Aboriginal community controlled organisation providing support to Aboriginal children and young people, their birth families and foster families.

Burrun Dalai’s vision is to maintain Aboriginal family values.

Ensuring this objective has traditionally involved the extended family members and community members in the care and development of children.

This is why it’s important that our carers or one carer in a family is of Aboriginal descent.

Ngunya Jarjum Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc

Ngunya Jarjum (meaning “all our children”) Aboriginal Child and Family Network Inc. is a community based service, which is made up of dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people who are committed to improving services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families throughout the Far North Coast.

Goodradigbee Cultural & Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

The Goodradigbee and Uniting partnership provides culturally supported foster care and kinship placements for Aboriginal children and young people between the age of 0-17 who are not able to live at home. These placements can be either short-term, long-term or on a respite basis, across Western and South Western Sydney.

Goodradigbee’s mission statement is: “Putting Families & Culture First”. Together with Uniting, we work alongside foster carers, families, children and young people to help them secure a safe and nurturing home through restoration to their birth family, guardianship through their kinship or foster carers, or through long-term care placements.

We strive to ensure that every child or young person maintains their cultural connections. Our carers are supported to provide quality care for the children and young people they care for through regular engagement, training and support from Aboriginal caseworkers.

We encourage and consider all people to become carers including people who are single and couples (including LGBTI). We welcome anyone thinking of becoming a foster carer to contact us and allow us the privilege of supporting you to become a carer.

Narang Bir-rong Aboriginal Corporation

Narang Bir-rong believes that Aboriginal/TSI children are best raised by their own families however, when they are unable to remain at home, they should maintain connections with their community and kin. Narang Bir-rong offers support to carers who have children or young persons in their care as a result of family kinship ties and monitors the care of these children. All potential carers are assessed regardless of their relationship to the child or young person as the need for support and supervision are always based on the findings of the assessment. Narang Bir-rong ensures that the child or young person’s family or kinship group are involved in all aspects of work such as case planning, providing support, reviewing and monitoring case plans and planning for children or young people to exit care.

Narang Bir-rong ensures that only people best able to meet the individual needs of children and young people are recruited as authorised carers and that carers receive appropriate training and ongoing support for their roles. Narang Bir-rong also provides carers with opportunities to participate in decisions such as case planning and implementation and developing exit plans, and that carers have their rights upheld.

South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (AMS)

The South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (SMSAC) is the only fully accredited Aboriginal NGO within the Shoalhaven and Far South Coast providing permanency support services. Our support team provides carers with access to ongoing training, scheduled carer meetings, regular reviews, respite care, community activities, service referrals, 24 hour on-call service and other supports as needed.

Goodradigbee Cultural & Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

The Goodradigbee and Uniting partnership provides culturally supported foster care and kinship placements for Aboriginal children and young people between the age of 0-17 who are not able to live at home. These placements can be either short-term, long-term or on a respite basis, across Western and South Western Sydney.

Goodradigbee’s mission statement is: “Putting Families & Culture First”. Together with Uniting, we work alongside foster carers, families, children and young people to help them secure a safe and nurturing home through restoration to their birth family, guardianship through their kinship or foster carers, or through long-term care placements.

We strive to ensure that every child or young person maintains their cultural connections. Our carers are supported to provide quality care for the children and young people they care for through regular engagement, training and support from Aboriginal caseworkers.

We encourage and consider all people to become carers including people who are single and couples (including LGBTI). We welcome anyone thinking of becoming a foster carer to contact us and allow us the privilege of supporting you to become a carer.

Kari Ltd

KARI is the largest Aboriginal foster care service provider in Australia.

KARI has developed a unique foster care model that delivers full case management of our children and young people in care. This means we can ensure that Aboriginal culture plays a significant role in the care of a child or young person.

KARI is committed to providing quality, sustainable services to Aboriginal communities, especially in the areas of Aboriginal child protection and Aboriginal community support programs.

We envision a future of flourishing Aboriginal families, youth and communities.

Narang Bir-rong Aboriginal Corporation

Narang Bir-rong believes that Aboriginal/TSI children are best raised by their own families however, when they are unable to remain at home, they should maintain connections with their community and kin. Narang Bir-rong offers support to carers who have children or young persons in their care as a result of family kinship ties and monitors the care of these children. All potential carers are assessed regardless of their relationship to the child or young person as the need for support and supervision are always based on the findings of the assessment. Narang Bir-rong ensures that the child or young person’s family or kinship group are involved in all aspects of work such as case planning, providing support, reviewing and monitoring case plans and planning for children or young people to exit care.

Narang Bir-rong ensures that only people best able to meet the individual needs of children and young people are recruited as authorised carers and that carers receive appropriate training and ongoing support for their roles. Narang Bir-rong also provides carers with opportunities to participate in decisions such as case planning and implementation and developing exit plans, and that carers have their rights upheld.

Ngurambang OOHC

Ngurambang Out-of-Home Care provides support for Aboriginal children and young people living in care. Ngurambang meaning “special place/home” in Wiradjuri, the service aims to:

• Provide culturally appropriate support to Aboriginal children and young people in care
• Support carers
• Facilitate programs to give children and young people great life experiences
• Develop relationships with birth families and support families to stay together or restore the family unit.

Ngurambang Incorporated is an Aboriginal community managed organisation established to govern the Ngurambang Out-of-Home Care service. It is supported by a partnership with Uniting.

Orange Aboriginal Medical Services – Yiriyirimbang OOHC Service

YIRIYIRIMBANG aims to strengthen a child and young person connection to family, community and country by established a sense of belonging for Aboriginal children in care.

They do this by:

• Aboriginal staff led Out Of Home Care service
• Focus on connections of child or young person so they don’t lose connection to culture
• Actively engaging in the children’s cultural planning and being proactive in life story work
• Promoting self-determination and family led decision making
• Build a register of Aboriginal potential Auntie’s and Uncles (foster carers) in our area
• Providing resources to Aboriginal children and families to support cultural knowledge
• Culturally safe restoration program acknowledging that safety and the best interest of the child is paramount.

Riverina Medical and Dental Aboriginal Service

The Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) is the peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) across NSW.

The AH&MRC works with our membership in NSW to ensure accessibility to an adequately resourced and skilled workforce who provide high quality comprehensive primary health care services for Aboriginal communities.

The AH&MRC works in collaboration with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health partners to systematically address the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre Inc

Winanga-Li recognises that all children and young people deserve a safe, respectful, caring and positive environment. Winanga-Li is dedicated to fostering healthy social development in children and young people and will include community members, carers and other professionals as an effective approach to assist in building a positive care environment.

To achieve this vision, Winanga-Li commits to strengthening and sustaining families to be a supportive and nurturing unit, with strong connections to the local community and other support networks.

Winanga-Li is committed to ensuring that children and young people are provided with a physical environment that is safe, comfortable and personalised and that the agency’s carers are supported in providing this environment through training and information sharing.

Winanga-Li will provide on-going monitoring and support the carer to ensure that the children and young person’s needs and rights are being fully met by their physical environment and that their physical environment can and does change as and when the children and young person’s need change.

Goodradigbee Cultural & Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

The Goodradigbee and Uniting partnership provides culturally supported foster care and kinship placements for Aboriginal children and young people between the age of 0-17 who are not able to live at home. These placements can be either short-term, long-term or on a respite basis, across Western and South Western Sydney.

Goodradigbee’s mission statement is: “Putting Families & Culture First”. Together with Uniting, we work alongside foster carers, families, children and young people to help them secure a safe and nurturing home through restoration to their birth family, guardianship through their kinship or foster carers, or through long-term care placements.

We strive to ensure that every child or young person maintains their cultural connections. Our carers are supported to provide quality care for the children and young people they care for through regular engagement, training and support from Aboriginal caseworkers.

We encourage and consider all people to become carers including people who are single and couples (including LGBTI). We welcome anyone thinking of becoming a foster carer to contact us and allow us the privilege of supporting you to become a carer.

Kari Ltd

KARI is the largest Aboriginal foster care service provider in Australia.

KARI has developed a unique foster care model that delivers full case management of our children and young people in care. This means we can ensure that Aboriginal culture plays a significant role in the care of a child or young person.

KARI is committed to providing quality, sustainable services to Aboriginal communities, especially in the areas of Aboriginal child protection and Aboriginal community support programs.

We envision a future of flourishing Aboriginal families, youth and communities.

Narang Bir-rong Aboriginal Corporation

Narang Bir-rong believes that Aboriginal/TSI children are best raised by their own families however, when they are unable to remain at home, they should maintain connections with their community and kin. Narang Bir-rong offers support to carers who have children or young persons in their care as a result of family kinship ties and monitors the care of these children. All potential carers are assessed regardless of their relationship to the child or young person as the need for support and supervision are always based on the findings of the assessment. Narang Bir-rong ensures that the child or young person’s family or kinship group are involved in all aspects of work such as case planning, providing support, reviewing and monitoring case plans and planning for children or young people to exit care.

Narang Bir-rong ensures that only people best able to meet the individual needs of children and young people are recruited as authorised carers and that carers receive appropriate training and ongoing support for their roles. Narang Bir-rong also provides carers with opportunities to participate in decisions such as case planning and implementation and developing exit plans, and that carers have their rights upheld.