Here is where your journey begins, preparing your family and home to become a crucial part of a Pasifika and Maori child’s forever story.  In our migration as a community to Australia, our search was for better opportunities for our families both immediate and extended.  This transition came with a lot of grief and loss, new learnings and a challenge to rebuild community, connection and our cultural identities whilst navigating the Australian way of life.  Our stories have evolved and our resilience as a people continues to motivate us to remain hopeful in forging our own pathways for the good of our future leaders, our children.  

The Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety has revealed to our community that our children, our future leaders are sitting in out of home care – this truth has been very confronting and as we are called to navigate these new waters, we look forward to partnering with you in this space of care and reconciliation.  If you are over 18, living in Southeast Queensland, and can provide a safe, stable and loving temporary home for a child in care, you could be eligible to join our family of carers. 

We need short term, long term and emergent placement options – we provide all the culturally embedded training, walk with you through the assessment process and deliver ongoing support once you are approved to ensure that you feel confident in the support that you provide.  We work with your whole family, ensuring that everyone in your home and extended village/iwi understands their rights and that of the child’s.  Just as our forefathers would gather to love on families within their communities who were facing difficult times, this is just “what we do”. 

Geographic Catchment Area
We will be working with the Child Safety Service Centers in Logan Central, Loganlea, Browns Plains, Beenleigh, and Beaudesert.

What is foster care?
Foster carers are approved by Child Safety to provide care in their own home for children and young people who they are not related to biologically. This care may be for a short or long period of time and is monitored by your Service Provider, namely us.

What is kinship care?
Kinship carers are approved by Child Safety to provide care in their own homes for a relative, family member, close friend, or a member of the child or young person’s community.

A kinship carer is a person related to the child, or is considered part of the family or a close friend, including:

• grandparent

• aunt or uncle

• other relative or close friend.

For Pasifika and Māori children, kinship care may include another Pasifika or Māori person who is a member of, or compatible with the child’s community or language group.

When Pasifika or Māori children and young people need to live away from their home for their own protection, Child Safety is committed to ensuring their cultural identity and relationship with their families and communities is maintained.