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Kinship care and family contact research series
Reports and articles exploring the perspectives of children, young people, parents and carers about their experiences of kinship care.
(order online)
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Empowering Young People Pilot Project (pdf 244kb)
An evaluation of the LOVE DRUNK performance and the RESPECT, PROTECT AND CONNECT program in schools. Copies can be obtained by phoning Felicity Lane on 8601 5295. |
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From Isolation to Connection - A guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people (pdf, 405kb)
A booklet about the impact of trauma on children.
(order online)
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Wise up (pdf, 1mb)
A resource produced by Child Wise to help you identify sexual abuse. |
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Statutory Declaration for Informal Relative Carers Victoria - information booklet (pdf, 3.9mb)
A guide to the Statutory Declaration for Informal Relative Carers Victoria.
(order online)
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Statutory Declaration for Informal Relative Carers Victoria - form (pdf, 878kb)
This statutory declaration for informal relative carers has been developed to assist carers to gain better access to services for the children in their care. |
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Legal resources for grandparents and carers - third in a series of resources for grandparents (pdf, 2.3mb)
If you are a relative caring for a child in your family fulltime, you may have legal questions or problems that will come up from time to time. This book tries to make legal issues easier to understand. |
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Parenting for grandparents and relative carers - second edition (pdf, 2.64mb)
This booklet has been written for grandparents who are the
fulltime carers of their grandchildren and for other members
of the extended family who are caring for children. |
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A resource outlining Government assistance and benefits which may be available for grandparents and other relative carers of a child. |
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Wise choices : safe children DVD
A DVD and fact sheet to help parents when choosing services or carers for their children.
Each DVD has all of the following language options: English, Arabic, Cantonese, Dinka, Farsi, Mandarin, Somali and Vietnamese.
(order DVD and factsheets online)
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Things to think about when selecting a safe babysitter for your child.
A double-sided A4 tip sheet.
(order online)
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Things to think about when selecting a safe babysitter for your child. A small booklet for those people who would like more information than the A4 tip sheet.
(order online)
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This easy to use fridge magnet and attached notepad assists parents to pass on key information about their child to the baby sitter.
(order online)
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A guide to working with traumatised children.
(order online)
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A resource for parents designed to assist parents and the broader school community to better understand how abuse, neglect and other forms of trauma can impact on children's development and learning. It complements an earlier well received publication for teachers - Calmer classrooms - A guide to working with traumatised children.
(order online)
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All children have the right to feel safe and to be safe all of the time. This guide builds on the national framework, Creating Safe Environments for Children... |
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Entrusting the care of your child to someone else is a big step. This booklet raises some of the key child safety issues that may assist you to decide how childsafe an activity, service or organisation is.
(order online)
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Additional resources for foster parents |
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A double-sided A4 reference check list which describes the basic rights of children living in out-of-home care
(order online)
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Supporting children and young people in out-of-home care to achieve at school
Training resource - Powerpoint presentation (346Kb) |
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