Foster Carer Assessments
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Family Konnect supports DCJ and NGOs by offering impartial and professional assessments of potential foster carers and kinship carers.
Our goal is to assess the competency of foster carer applicant(s) as part of the community services foster care authorisation and review processes.
Family Konnect will perform the assessment in collaboration with the community services representative or an NGO’s representative.
Our assessment services includes, but is not limited to:
- Undertaking visits to the applicant’s home
- Interviewing all household members
- Preparing the home inspection and assessment reports and
- Explaining the code of conduct for authorised carers to the applicant
Why trust Family Konnect’s Foster Carer Assessments?
Our qualified team members have extensive experience working with foster carers as well as with children and young people in care who have been impacted by grief and loss, abuse, neglect, etc.
Our broad knowledge of the dynamics of foster care provision – including the impact on foster care families -, and the current legislation shaping the practice of foster care, guarantees an impartial, professional, and fair assessment.
Our experience covers all aspects of the assessment process:
- Interviews with foster parents and their adult (18 years old and over) children to gather information
- Analysis of information
- Conducting of assessments
- Highly developed written skills and experience in writing assessment reports
- Capacity to reflect and critique information that takes into account the interviewees’ experiences, assumptions and cultural background