Fact Sheets and Resources

Financial support for families

PCA Families’ Flexible Funding program for permanent care, additional needs adoptive and families with a family law court order in receipt of DHHS care allowance.
DHHS Care Allowance - care allowances for assessed and approved foster care, kinship care, permanent care and additional needs local adoptive families. The care allowance contributes to the day-to-day costs incurred while providing for children and young people placed in statutory home-based care or adopted through the Victorian additional needs local adoption program.
Carer Allowance & Payment - Services Australia - payments to assist with the cost of caring for a child/children who has a severe disability or illness.
Parenting Payment - Services Australia – government support payment while you are a child’s main carer

Contact Us

Level 1, Suite 6,

69-71 Rosstown Road,

Carnegie VIC 3163

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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.