Resources for Children & Families

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Creating a culturally safe environment for children in foster care

This article from Fostering Connections has tips for foster carers to support children, young people and families from culturally diverse backgrounds.
My Life and Me – Having Difficult Conversations (sample)

This accompanying resource provides examples and guidance around talking about uncomfortable, sad, and hard conversations.
My Life and Me parent’s book (sample)

The parent’s book collects information from parents for their child’s life story work and in turn helps parents remember strengths in their relationship.
My Life and Me companion guide (sample)

Step by step guidance helps practitioners and carers have meaningful conversations with a child or young person to complete My Life and Me.
My Life and Me life story book (sample)

SSI developed its life story resource, My Life and Me, in order to improve cultural responsive work with children and young people from CALD backgrounds.

What does it take to be a foster carer?

Perseverance and growth: Kim’s foster care journey

They thought they would ease themselves into it with short-term care. Now, three years later, this couple are still looking after their first foster child, while also helping other children through short-term placements.

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“Children need to know where they come from.”

In matching carer Linh with Ben, SSI considered their shared Vietnamese cultural heritage so that she could help maintain Ben’s connection to his family’s ethnicity and language.

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“It’s very rewarding and very worthwhile.”

As a single woman, you may think that she does not fit the mould of a typical foster carer.

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