Barnardos Children’s Family Centre, Curtin

Barnardos Children’s Family Centre

Barnardos Children’s Family Centre in started in 1978 and replaced Barnados House and Berwick House in Curtin. By the early 1990s Barnardos had changed from residential care to foster care and family support. From 1993 Barnardos Children’s Family Centre has run Find-a-Family ACT, a program organising permanent foster placements.

Barnardos Children’s Family Centre offers family support, out-of-home care and supported accommodation services for children, adolescents and their families in the ACT. The Centre was previously known as Barnardos House which opened in 1964 and was the first children’s Home providing permanent care in the ACT.

Since the 1970s there has been a major emphasis on family-based placements. In 2011 there are no children’s homes for children under twelve. Efforts are focused on finding permanent solutions for children within their own family if possible, alternatively children are placed with substitute families or supported in independent living.

Services include: foster care, homelessness transition programs and housing outreach, mentoring programs, family support. The program Find-a-Family ACT assists children unable to live at home with permanent family care placements or adoption.

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