This program allocates funds to non-government organisations and local government authorities to provide a range of community based services that are consistent with DFC’s aims. Services include:
,Aboriginal programs
- The Mobile Assistance Patrol, operated by the Aboriginal Sobriety Group and located at Nunkuwarrin Yunti, operates 7 days a week across metropolitan Adelaide and provides transport to places of safety, counselling and referral services to Aboriginal people affected by drug or alcohol misuse or at risk of homelessness. The MAP service is also available to Aboriginal women and children who are at risk of violence from people affected by drugs or alcohol. Non-Aboriginal people may also access this service, as circumstances require.
Contact
Mobile Assistance Patrol
34 Hookings Tce
Woodville Gardens SA
Phone: 8244 5988
Call Out: 0411 474 368
- The Aboriginal Substance Misuse Connection Program, managed by Drug and Alcohol Services SA, focuses on transitioning Aboriginal people with multiple and complex substance misuse problems and homelessness through the relevant drug and alcohol intervention and treatment stages from sobering up through to rehabilitation. The service, which is based on a collaborative outreach model of care, uses an assertive case management approach. The ASMCP works with existing inner city services in a collaborative partnership approach.
Contact
Southern Adelaide Health Service
161 Greenhill Road
Parkside SA
Phone: 8274 8274
Email: gibbs.patricia@saugov.sa.gov.au
Social inclusion ‘Supporting Families in Crisis’ Program
Initiatives funded under the Social Inclusion ‘Supporting Families in Crisis’ Program aim to support and link families at risk of homelessness with appropriate services to stabilise their housing circumstances and enable families to be secure and supportive. Two programs are currently funded to provide services:
- Homeless and Parenting Program Initiative, delivered by Centacare Catholic Family services across the metropolitan area to address homelessness by providing assertive outreach to address the impact of homelessness upon the capacity of families to parent effectively.
- 'Taikurtinna Maltorendi’, an Aboriginal-specific service auspiced through the Metropolitan Aboriginal Youth Family Services (MAYFS) to provide homelessness support and access to services for Aboriginal families at risk or in contact with the child protection system. Service area: Port Adelaide Enfield.
Contact
Taikurtinna Maltorendi
c/- The Parks Community Centre
2-46 Cowan Street
Angle Park SA 5010
Phone: 8243 5733
Fax: 8243 5744
Mobile: 0403 580 371
Email: sharen.letton@dfc.sa.gov.au
Stronger Families Safer Children Program
The Stronger Families Safer Children Program supports families in contact with the statutory child protection and care systems in order to stabilise and build capacity in families to provide better care for children.
A variety of Stronger Families Safer Children services are being delivered by non-government organisations in partnership with Families SA District Centres, increasing capacity to respond to child protection concerns in the community. This program provides interventions that enhance the safety and wellbeing of at-risk children and their families where child abuse notifications, re-notifications and confirmations have occurred and, without intervention, children continue to be at significant risk or serious harm.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families are a focus area with two Aboriginal specific service providers working with only Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children and their families (Aboriginal Family Support Services and Nunkuwarrin Yunti).
While building family strength, and providing safe, caring living arrangements for children, this program will also reduce the long-term costs of children being placed in alternative care.
- Targeted early intervention services involve responding to the assessed needs of children, young people and their families in the early stages of their contact with the statutory child protection system, and where the absence of intervention is likely to result in ongoing and more serious child protection concerns.
Contact
Catholic Church Endowment Society
Phone: 8210 8281
Email: gpapagiannis@centacare.org.au
Nunkuwarrin Yunti of SA
Phone: 8223 5217
Email: gabriellab@nunku.org.au
Aboriginal Family Support Services
Phone: 82121112
Email: Kenise.Neill@afss.com.au
UnitingCare Wesley Port Pirie
Phone: 8633 8633
Email: Debbie.devlin@ucwpp.org.au
Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie
Phone: 8645 8233
Email: eward@centacarecdpp.org.au
- Intensive placement prevention services involve preventing imminent separation of children from their primary caregivers into state-based care because of serious and substantial child protection concerns with a focus on improving family functioning.
Contact
Anglicare SA
Phone: 8209 5463
Email: cahill@anglicare-sa.org.au
Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie in conjunction with Aboriginal Family Support Services
Phone: 8645 8233
Email: eward@centacarecdpp.org.au
- Reunification services provide a range of services to families with children in out-of-home care to help each child and family achieve and maintain their optimal level of re-connection, from full re-entry into their family of origin to other forms of contact, such as visiting, that affirm the child’s belonging in his or her family.
Contact
Anglicare SA
Phone: 8131 3420
Email: jkoen@anglicare-sa.org.au
Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie
Phone: 8645 8233
Email: eward@centacarecdpp.org.au
Aboriginal Family Support Services
Phone: 8641 0907
Email: Katie.coulthard@afss.com.au
UnitingCare Wesley Port Pirie
Phone: 8633 8633
Email: Debbie.devlin@ucwpp.org.au
Anglican Community Care
Phone: 8724 9211
Email: Helen@accare.org.au