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Many children and young people in our community experience hardship and are unable to live with their families. 

We are committed to ensuring these children and young people have stable and loving homes in which they can thrive and have hope for the future.

Our foster care program connects a child with carers who can provide a home and meet the child’s everyday needs with empathy and kindness. Depending on the needs of the individual child, foster care can be provided on a short or long-term basis.

Throughout their journey with a child, our foster carers are provided with training, and support from our team of highly skilled case workers, and network of therapy and counselling experts. By working collaboratively, it is possible to build the child’s or young person’s trust, heal their pain, support their restoration to family where appropriate, or support their successful transition to independence as they leave care, with many confident that their foster carer will become their support through life.

For more information:
P: (02) 9481 2600
E: info@catholiccaredbb.org.au

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We need emergency foster carers

We need emergency foster carers

We need emergency foster homes for local children who through no fault of their own, are unable to stay in their family home – a stable foster home where they will be safe while their parents get the support they need, or an alternative family member of placement is found. Can you open your home to a child in need?

What exactly is foster care?

What exactly is foster care?

There are thousands of children in out of home care. They need families.

What's it like being in care?

What's it like being in care?

Real kids talk about what care was like and the impact it had on them.

What's it like to be a carer?

What's it like to be a carer?

Real carers share some of their experiences.

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Do you have a place in your heart & home for a child in need?

There are so many children and young people who cannot live at home.

Our priority is to ensure they have a safe, stable home. Can you help?

Latest Foster Care news

Taylor thrives in her placement

Taylor thrives in her placement

Before entering an Individual Placement Arrangement with CatholicCare in October 2022, 12 year old Taylor had never lived anywhere for very long. Her placements with foster carers and family members would regularly break down, and in the months before coming to CatholicCare she was living in temporary accommodation with agency workers.

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Sally builds meaningful connections

Sally builds meaningful connections

Last year marked a significant and heart-warming chapter in our Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) team as we welcomed Sally into our care.

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A word from our Executive Director

A word from our Executive Director

I had not run a foster care service prior to joining CatholicCare, but I had managed other types of programs for children in Out of Home Care. I knew from my experience that kids in foster care almost always thrived.

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The long road to adoption

The long road to adoption

David is a young person in our foster care program. Three years ago, with the support of CatholicCare, David’s foster family made the decision to move toward adoption to ensure David would always be part of their family.

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