New South Wales intensive foster care program survey findings

In 2014 ACWA commissioned the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW to conduct a study of intensive foster care (IFC) in NSW. The aim of the study was to contribute information on IFC to a larger project being conducted by ACWA, in partnership with Family and Community Services (FACS), on the development of a framework for therapeutic care in NSW. The FACS/ ACWA project sought to establish a strategic response to the therapeutic needs of children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC); one that promoted healing and recovery from exposure to trauma, and aimed at those whose recovery was supported by a trauma-informed service system.