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 is a State Government initiative that supports families in contact with the statutory child protection and care system. The aim of the Program is to improve the functioning of families to better care for their children and reduce instances of child abuse and neglect.
Stronger Families Safer Children services are delivered by Non-Government Organisations in partnership with Families SA. Eligible families are referred to the Program via Families SA Offices.
The Program comprises of three service streams:
1. Targeted Early Intervention Services respond to the assessed needs of children, young people and their families in the early stages of their contact with the child protection system, and where the absence of interventions is likely to result in ongoing and more serious child protection concerns.
Service Partners:
- Aboriginal Family Support Services
- Catholic Church Endowment Society
- Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie
- Nunkuwarrin Yunti of SA
- UnitingCare Wesley Port Pirie
2. Intensive Placement Prevention services involve providing intensive support to families to prevent the imminent separation of children from their primary caregivers because of serious and substantial child protection concerns.
Service Partners:
- Anglicare SA
- Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie in partnership with Aboriginal Family Support Services
3. Reunification services provide support in the process of reconnecting children in out of home care with their primary care givers by means of a variety of services and supports to the children, their families/primary care givers and their out of home carers or other service providers.
Service Partners:
- Aboriginal Family Support Services
- AcCare (Anglican Community Care)
- Anglicare SA
- Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie
- UnitingCare Wesley Port Pirie
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