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Aboriginal Family Preservation

Tharawal Aboriginal Family Preservation aims to improve outcomes for children, young people and families by ensuring they received individually tailored, evidence-informed and culturally responsive services. These services support children and young people to thrive and feel safe at home, which keeps families together.

With the cultural support of the Aboriginal Family Preservation program, you can assist with the planning of your family’s future. This program is designed to support you and your family and together we can work on building the strengths and needs you and your family already have.

Each family joining the program will be linked with a Brighter Futures caseworker who will work with families to identify their strengths and needs and develop a cultural support package.

Our objective is building strengths and engaging families with Cultural support, to promote:

  • Healthy development in children
  • Strong and functional families
  • Help reduce child abuse and neglect.
  • Help reduce intergenerational disadvantage.

Indigenous Positive Parenting Program (Triple P)
A positive parenting program that helps families to minimise the stresses of parenting and maximise the fun of raising children.

123 Magic
A short but effective parenting program to assist with challenging behaviours that some parents face in their day-to-day lives.

Play Group
Link families to other programs that may be beneficial to assist your family achieve goals.

Women’s Healing Group
Learn ideas that you can take home to take care of yourself as we often forget to.

Eligibility and suitability are assessed by identifying whether your family may be experiencing challenges in some of the following areas:

  • Limited family or social support
  • Child behavioural or mental health issues
  • Parenting mental health issues
  • Parenting drug or alcohol misuse
  • Experiencing domestic or family violence
  • Significant learning difficulties or disabilities
  • In need of parenting skills
  • A health condition requiring ongoing treatment
  • Limited school attendance

Families wanting to participate in the Aboriginal Family Preservation program must be referred in one of the following ways:

  • A community agency, health professional (e.g. doctor), social worker, childcare worker, or teacher
  • The Department of Communities Services

To make a community referral, please phone us on 02 4620 0400.

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