Enhancing Out-of-Home Care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young People

Table of contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Section 1. Scope
• Section 2. Introduction
• Section 3. Method
  • 3.1 Participants
  • 3.2 Sampling techniques
    • Consultations with organisational representatives involved with placement of Indigenous children in out-of-home care
    • Focus groups with carers of Indigenous children
    • Focus groups with Indigenous young people currently in care
    • Procedure
    • Data analytic methods
• Section 4. Findings
  • 4.1 Perspectives of young people
    • Cultural activities
    • Connection to family and community
  • 4.2 Perspectives of carers, agencies, departments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations
    • Recruitment
    • Assessment
    • Training
    • Support for carers
    • Services for children
    • Retention
  • 4.3 Overarching themes
    • Holistic approach to service provision with Indigenous families
    • Getting help for the biological parents
    • Children with complex needs
    • Interlinked nature of recruitment, retention, assessment, training and support
    • Pre-placement
    • Kinship/relative carers
    • The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
    • Roles of government, Indigenous and non-government agencies
    • Types of care
  • 4.4 Comparing the differing perspectives of participants
  • 4.5 Methodological issues
• Section 5. Conclusion
• Section 6. Options for Dissemination
• References
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Stakeholders consulted (to protect the confidentiality of participants, this Appendix is not for publication)
  • Appendix B: National comparison of Indigenous related out-of-home care policies, Tables 2-5 PDF (247 KB)
  • Appendix C: Oral consent pro forma PDF (83 KB)
  • Appendix D: Plain language statement PDF (66 KB)
  • Appendix E: Detailed question pro forma PDF (150 KB)