Foster Care
Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service is committed to supporting the safety and well being of the most vulnerable children and young people in our community.
Good ShepherdYouth and Family Service is in urgent need of foster carers for children and young people who are unable to live with their family. Increasingly complex social issues related to mental illness, substance abuse, family abuse and breakdown and others require an everr increasing supply of foster carers.
Foster care can be a most rewarding experience - to care for a child or young person and watch them develop and regain a sense of security and well being.
Becoming a carer
Our foster care program called Living in Nurturing Communities matches children and young people with accredited foster carers who provide a secure, safe and nurturing environment which seeks to meet the physical, emotional, social, intellectual and identity needs of a child or young person who lives with them.
The program staff together with the foster carer and other significant profiessionals who may be involved in the child or young person's life for a Care Team which takes responsibility to ensure the child or young person in care is supported in their response to the trauma and grief of not living with their family. The program supports foster carers to ensure the child or young person's best interests are always at the forefront of all our work.
Foster carers can be single, married, with or without children, young or old. The program places children and young people within the north west metropolitan region which stretches from Melton area to Epping and inner north and west suburbs.
Foster carers can accept a chld or young person for an emergency placement (usually a number of days), short term (usually weeks to 3 months) or long term (usually one or more years). Some children and young people remain in care until they turn 18 years of age.
Contact Nathan Heard on 0447 383 622 or email n.heard@goodshepvic.org.au or John Mitchell on 0458 377 399 or email j.mitchell@goodshepvic.org.au for more information.
Share Care
Good Shepherd’s Share Care Program, part of the foster care program, provides regular planned weekend (and in some cases week day) overnight care. This program through its foster carer's, offers support to parents who are socially isolated and require assistance with the care of their chldren or young people. For more information, contact Jim Mavromatis on j.mavromatis@goodshepvic.org.au or phone 0408 468 149.
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