Support groups

Community support groups have a key role to play in providing foster and kinship care related services throughout Queensland. They include:

Community foster and kinship care agencies

Community agencies provide a range of services, including:

• foster and kinship carer recruitment
• foster carer training
• foster and kinship carer support
• placements for children and young people who require out-of-home care
• other child protection support services.

Contacts details for agencies throughout Queensland:

• Community foster and kinship care agencies
• Indigenous foster and kinship care agencies

Peak bodies and advocacy groups

• CREATE Foundation - represents the interests of children and young people in care, with the aim of ensuring that they are afforded the same life opportunities as all young Australians.
• Foster Care Queensland (FCQ) - a non-government organisation that provides information, support and advocacy to all foster and kinship carers in Queensland. Membership is voluntary.
• PeakCare Queensland - a non-government body concerned for the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and the support of their families. Its membership includes community agencies working with foster and kinship carers.
• Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) - is Queensland's independent, peak body representing the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.