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As the go to organisation for the community, PCA Families delivers individual support and peer support services to permanent care, kinship care and adoptive families, informed by lived experience and research.
Our helpline offers support, information, referral pathways and individual advocacy services to permanent care, kinship and adoptive families. Find out more here.
Financial help to meet the additional needs of a child in your care. Eligible to families with a relevant Victorian order (12 months or more post-order) and in receipt of the DFFH care allowance. Find out more here.
Friendly and welcoming peer support groups and activities. Open to all permanent care and adoptive families, as well as those being assessed or in waiting! Find out more here.
Funding to support young people on a permanent care order who turn 15 years and 9 months after 1 July 2021 to get the support they need as they get older and become independent. Includes Homestretch support until 21 years old. Find out more here.
PCA Families fact sheets and information are designed to educate and inform parents and carers of families formed by adoption, permanent and kinship care. They are not intended to be relied upon as legal advice. Find out more here.
A collection of useful resources created by other trauma informed organisaitons including podcasts, training, fact sheets and more. Find out more here.
The Lived Experience Parenting Channel is a free virtual community to support kinship, permanent care and adoptive parents, carers and families. The channel features persons with lived experience or professional expertise in the form of videos, or podcasts, together with written transcripts so that you can choose the best way to stay informed. Find out more here.
PCA Families acknowledges the First Nations peoples of all Country throughout Australia. We are grateful for continued connections to lands, waters, seas and communities. We pay respect to Elders past and present as we express our intention to move together to a place of justice and partnership. We acknowledge sovereignty has never been ceded and Australia was, and always will be, Aboriginal lands.
PCA Families has a zero tolerance of child abuse and we are committed to establishing and maintaining child safe environments.
