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Kinship Care Network
The bi-monthly Kinship Care Network is hosted by The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare in partnership with Kinship Care Victoria.
Our statewide members represent twenty-eight funded service provides, bringing together place-based knowledge and practice wisdom to build capacity and alignment across the kinship care sector.
The Network offers frontline workforces opportunities to be a part of the necessary change early and in a timely way, to:
collaborate with each other and government,
inform implementation and advocate on key reforms and policy, and
engage with current research, practice and policy.
For inquiries, please email kinshipcarenetwork@cfecfw.asn.au
Kinship Care Week 2023
4 – 8 September 2023
During #KinshipCareWeek2023 we celebrate the amazing role that kinship carers across Victoria play in children’s lives and in our communities.
Together with members of The Centre’s Kinship Care Network we are promoting ways to celebrate kinship carers.
#KinshipCareWeek23 events
Kinship Care Week Pre-Launch Event
The Centre will host a pre-launch event on 21 August for invited guests. Register below to attend via zoom.
Resillience for Carers with Cheryl Harrison
Watch the Giraffe Resillience pre-recorded webinar, helping you build a set of skills and behaviours to help you to build your resilience in ways that work for you.
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Celebrating Kinship Carers
It has been a momentous year for kinship care, with unprecedented attention from decision-makers, as the Government responded to the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office Report 2022.
But many kinship families still feel the need to profile, promote, prioritise , so raising awareness of their important role and challenges they face is crucial to building understanding and getting them the support, they so desperately need.
'Kinship Carers are important people in the lives of children and young people. They keep children connected to family, culture and community when they are unable to live with their parents".
Deb Tsorbaris
Videos of support
2023
2022
"Caring for our niece is a family and cultural obligation for life.”
“I am a kinship carer of my granddaughter who has multiple disabilities and has been in my care for 14 years.”
“Keeping my granddaughter connected to biological family.”
Support for Kinship Carers
Care Support Helpdesk
Dedicated teams are in divisions across the state.
North Division
Phone: 1800 319 507
Email North Care Support Helpdesk:
NorthCareSupportHelpdesk@dffh.vic.gov.au
South Division
Phone: 1800 319 503
Email South Care Support Helpdesk:
SouthCareSupportHelpdesk@dffh.vic.gov.au
East Division
Phone: 1800 931 757
Email East Care Support Helpdesk:
EastCareSupportHelpdesk@dffh.vic.gov.au
West Division
Phone: 1800 319 510
Email West Care Support Helpdesk:
Kinship Care - Department of Families Fairness and Housing
View the official resource here
