Integrated family services provides case management support to vulnerable families with children from pre-birth to 17 years of age.

Families who are:

• likely to experience greater challenges from experiencing risk factors and/or cumulative harm
• at risk of concerns escalating if problems are not addressed, and
• likely to experience:
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• • multiple risk factors and long-term chronic needs, causing high risk of developmental deficits
  • children, young people and families at high risk of long-term involvement in specialist secondary services. This includes for alcohol and drugs, mental health, family violence and sexual assault and homelessness services
  • cycles of disadvantage and poverty resulting in chronic neglect and cumulative harm
  • single/definable risk factors that need an individualised, specialised response, and/or
  • single/definable risk factors requiring specialised one-off, short-term or episodic assistance

The 200 hours program works intensively with families with complex needs, where significant risk has been identified.

Children (from pre-birth to 17 years) and their families. This includes:

• Families subject to first time Child Protection Orders
• Families with children under 5 years of age
• Aboriginal children and families
• Children with a disability
• Children in kinship placements (where CP retain CM responsibility)

The primary objectives of the FPR Response, in partnership with Child Protection, are:

• Family preservation: create safety and prevent child removal and placement in care
• Reunification: return children safely and rapidly to their families and communities.

Families with complex needs who have or had child protection involvement where the children are at risk of entering or re-entering care, or where the children are returning to the family from care.  

To support and assist parents to develop the skills necessary to provide for the physical and emotional needs of their child.

The target group for PASDS is infants and young children from birth to three years of age and their families where:

• the infant is involved with Child Protection, and assessed to be at high risk of harm
• there are concerns regarding a parent’s ability to provide for the physical and emotional needs of their infant.
• This includes interacting with them to promote attachment and development.

PFF aims to improve the safety, health and wellbeing of families that have multiple interactions with the health, social and justice service systems. This will help keep families together. It will simplify access to services and offer early intervention and support to keep families strong.

Families where:

• a mother has been in custody (including remand) in the past 12 months
• at least one young person aged 19 or under has
• • received a youth justice community order or custodial sentence in the past 12 months, or
  • other involvement in with youth justice.

Provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers, partners and their children with antenatal, postnatal and parenting support from pregnancy until the child reaches the age of four.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families with infant children from 0 – 4 yrs, who have need support for complex needs.  

• provide a flexible response to families
• recognise and support the strengths, dignity and desires of the person with a disability
• contribute to building family/parent capability and the sustainability of care
• help families identify disability support needs access the NDIS
• help families undertake NDIS disability-related goal setting and prepare for plan reviews
• build the capability of family services practitioners to support families with disability through:
• • understanding and using secondary consultation and referral pathways
  • helping families to navigate the NDIS to receive timely support.

Families in scope will be eligible for a family services response and have a child (0-18) or parent with a physical, cognitive, psychosocial or sensory disability.