Resources for Children & Families

Your place to find useful resources to help raise a child.

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.
Keeping Kids Safe

Awareness raising campaign to help keep kids safe.
Sabreena Duffy – Ordineroli Speaking podcast

AFLW star Sabreena Duffy has spent her entire life in the foster care system. Here she shares her story publicly for the first time.

What types of foster care are there?

Applying to become a foster carer: what to expect

Most people begin their foster care journey with little more than a spare room and a desire to provide a home for a child in need.

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Cross cultural foster care: why it might be right for you

With a strong focus on placing children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, SSI has countless supports in place to keep culture at forefront for both carer and child.

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Saying goodbye: When foster children go home

Saying goodbye to the children Afet has fostered is never easy. Over the years she’s learnt to appreciate the positive parts of that final farewell.

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