SUPPORTER AUTUMN 2020
Trott Park upgrades
Residents of our residential aged care site at Trott Park have been enjoying their beautifully upgraded garden and outdoor space.
The flexible and accessible outdoor area, with views across to the hills, includes raised garden beds where residents have been planting flowers, herbs and vegetables. The outdoor upgrade is part of site-wide renovations that will see the reception area upgraded and all resident rooms refurbished by the end of April 2020.
Keeping families together By the end of 2019, the program had engaged 15 families with 54 children – with an 80 per cent success rate of keeping children safely in the care of their families. If this success rate is maintained over Based on current progress, the expected results for the full two years of the program could deliver savings of $26 million. In less than six months, AnglicareSA’s intensive pilot program for those at risk of having their children removed has enabled 43 children to remain safely with their families.
to manage complex issues, and hopefully keep their family together. Specialist support staff give families intensive, face-to-face, in-home contact, and build on existing international evidence-based services, such as HomeBuilders in the US, which demonstrates high outcomes of children staying safely with their families 12 months after intervention. There is then a lower intensity six- month period of follow up. AnglicareSA, the Department for Child Protection and the Early Intervention Research Directorate work collaboratively to deliver the program.
The pilot is working well and is clearly demonstrating that given the opportunity, families can make changes, find their own solutions and flourish. The families we work with love and want the best for their children. If children can remain safely with their birth family, then that is by far the best place for them. The program, co-designed with key experts, ensures vulnerable families have the right supports in place
12 months, savings of $10 million could flow to the State Government and the South Australian economy. The outcomes for families will be immeasurable. Funded by the State Government, the $3 million Safe Kids, Families Together program commenced in August 2019 and will engage 46 families and around 138 children annually for two years.
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