Young people

Our future lies with our young people. With high suicide rates, youth homelessness, increasing prevalence of substance abuse, chronic poverty and family abuse and breakdown, it is imperative that we invest in young people.

Good Shepherd Youth and Family Service seeks to break the cycle by working alongside young people to develop innovative responses to their needs.

Collingwood

Becoming a carer
Living in Nurturing Communities (LINC) is a teenage foster care program matching and supporting young people who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, with voluntary caregivers. These caregivers provide a secure and safe home environment for the young person and seeks to meet their physical, emotional, social and intellectual needs.

LINC's guiding principle is grounded in the belief that children and young people must experience the minimum of trauma over separation from the normal environment of family, friends and school.

LINC workers and caregivers work together in partnership to ensure the young people in care are as safe and stabilized as possible. LINC workers provide ongoing support to caregivers to ensure their well-being is also maintained.

LINC - Home Based Care
Good Shepherd’s LINC Program (Living in Nurturing Communities) recruits a diverse range of foster carers to provide home based care for children in north west metropolitan area of Melbourne.  Foster carers can be single, married, with or without children, young or old.

Fostering is about helping a child or young person feel welcomed, loved and cared for in the local community. LINC volunteers provide a safe environment and a sense of security and stability for children faced with issues of abuse, trauma or neglect.

Share Care
Good Shepherd’s Share Care Program recruits volunteers to provide regular planned weekend care for children in the City of Yarra. Respite carers offer friendship and support to parents who are socially isolated and require assistance with the care of their children.

Grandparents Support
Good Shepherd’s Grandparents Kinship Support Program recruits volunteers to provide occasional childcare or regular respite care for grandparents in the Cities of Darebin and Yarra. Volunteers offer friendship and support to grandparents who have the full-time responsibility of raising their grandchildren.

If you are interested in volunteering to help care for children and young people, please contact Nathan Heard on 8412 7332 or 0447 383 622 or John Mitchell on 8412 7351.

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