Partners

Permanent Care and Adoptive Families (PCAF)

The ACT Group and PCAF have worked together since 2009 supporting foster carers and workers by addressing their training and support needs.

We provide support to the child, carer and system for as long as it takes to stabilise the placements. Support plans are developed with the child’s case manager, and often include:

• a comprehensive assessment, including cognitive assessment if required, and development of a Therapeutic Change Plan
• therapy for the child
• secondary consultation to the carer and child’s teachers
• skill development for those significant contributors to the child’s life, such as teachers.

During our partnership with PCAF we have prevented 91.5% of placements from terminating, with cost savings to the community of more than $5 million.

St Albans Primary School

We have been working with St Albans Primary School for nearly five years; helping to develop their staff’s capacity to understand and manage challenging student behaviours.

We provide a combination of:

• our learning and support programs
• two embedded ACT Group clinicians
• and a variety of other support services.

This has resulted in improvements in learning outcomes each year since the program began.

Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation Incorporated

We partnered with Burrun Dalai, a foster care organisation for Aboriginal children and young people, over a five-year period to support them in becoming trauma-informed.

We provided:

• extensive professional development including the Homes that Heal Program
• comprehensive cognitive and bio-psycho-social assessments, from which we developed Therapeutic Change Plans (TCPs) for the children and young people.

We were honoured to become an integral part of the Burrun Dalai community, and we learnt as much from them about Aboriginal history and their experience of standing up against oppression and racism in their country as their staff learnt about trauma from us.