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Post Care Services

Last Updated Sep 2008

Street address:
Level 1, 45 Wakefield Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address:
GPO Box 292
Adelaide SA 5001
Opening hours: 8.45 am to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday
Phone: 1800 188 118 (freecall)
Phone: 8207 2653
Email: postcare@dfc.sa.gov.au

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Support for care leavers

Last Updated Jul 2011

Post Care Services can provide you with support through:

  • Telephone contact
  • Case plan meetings
  • Assistance finding your way through housing / homelessness difficulties and services
  • Accessing programs to help with medical, dental or addiction needs
  • Helping to access your rights in the justice system
  • Assistance if you are considering reporting childhood sexual abuse
  • Help to access support in your community
  • Assisting you to be a part of a Support Group 
    • In the community – via Respond SA via VSS
    • Via Post Care Services
    • Post Care Services’ Consumer Reference Group
    • Forgotten Australians Memorial SA group
  • One off financial support for specific needs relating to your time in State care.

Health / medical / disability

Post Care Services will advocate your needs as a care leaver to these service providers so that they understand about your experiences as a child and how these can affect you as an adult. Speak to a Post Care Services social worker if you need advocacy in these areas. 

Education

Post Care Services supports care leavers accessing education to improve their options in their local communities. Post Care Services will advocate for you to negotiate payments if it is not easy for you to get into or financially afford courses. Post Care Services may be able to assist or finally support where you might struggle to pay up-front course fees yourself. This is subject to an assessment and after all other community means are considered.

Care leavers under the age of 25 can be considered for TAFE fee waivers

Housing

Are you homeless? Is your housing trust accommodation in bad condition? Do you need a support letter? Do you need assistance with a referral? Post Care Services can assist with all these problems. We work closely with services that help people who are homeless. These services include:

Support for young care leavers

Youth Support Teams provide assistance to young people between 15 and 25 years of age who:

  • Have left care
  • Are about to leave care
  • Thinking about what will happen when they do.

This requires referral by your social worker.

How to access services for younger care leavers

You can make direct contact with your closest Youth Support Team, or just ask your social worker.

See Youth Support Teams for more information.