CREATE Foundation produces a range of publications in support of children and young people in out of home care.
August 25, 2010
CREATE Foundation aims to create a better life for children and young people in care. We do this via many avenues.
Our CONNECTIONS programs break down the isolation and barriers that many children feel after they have gone into care. We connect children to each other and the community so they feel less isolated and more [...]
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July 30, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
30 July 2010
Moving out of home and becoming independent sounds exciting and most teenagers do it relatively seamlessly with the help of parents to support and guide them on the art of independent living.
This positive influence helps kids prepare for living out of home by teaching them about managing money, paying rent, cooking [...]
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May 18, 2010
“I didn’t grow up with my biological parents, but I was fortunate to be adopted into a loving family. My adoptive Dad has always been my hero and taught me to surf when I was 4. The lives of kids growing up in care can be influenced in a positive way by adults who stand [...]
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May 11, 2010
Jacqui Reed, CEO CREATE Foundation, has become an Ambassador for National Families Week 2010, Australia’s main celebration of the importance of families.
Each year, National Families Week celebrates and highlights the critical role of families in Australian society and coincides with the UN International Day of Families on 15 May. Hundreds of community groups, businesses and [...]
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March 10, 2010
CAROL NADER
March 10, 2010
A WELFARE group says the state government is refusing to pay the education fees of some young people leaving state care once they turn 18 – even though it is government policy that their fees be covered until they reach 21.
Anglicare Victoria says it is paying the fees of at least three [...]
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February 22, 2010
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Care leavers ask for help in becoming adults
Ashley Hall reported this story on Monday, February 22, 2010 18:22:00
MARK COLVIN: Young people who have been in care are ramping up their campaign to get state governments to prepare them better for adulthood.
Twenty-four young delegates from around the country have been meeting in Sydney [...]
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February 22, 2010
Delegate who knows the importance of knowledge
DAVID CURRY
14 Feb, 2010 09:49 AM
CHRIS TICEHURST has as good an understanding as anybody of the challenges of leaving foster care for adult life, which is why he will be one of three ACT delegates at a national youth advisory council next week.The 24-year-old was first placed in foster [...]
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February 22, 2010
NT NEWS
Voices from the fringe given freedom to speak
February 22nd, 2010
Bree Steward is one of 24 young delegates in Sydney taking part in the National Youth Advisory Council Summit.
BREE Steward knows how vital it is to give youngsters on the outer fringes a voice.
He found himself in residential care at the age of [...]
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February 19, 2010
CREATE Foundation National Office,
Level 6, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Ph (02) 9267 1999 or 1800 655 105
www.create.org.au
MEDIA RELEASE
NATIONAL SUMMIT: KIDSVOICES FOR CHANGE ARE HEARD!
February 20-22, 2010, CREATE Foundation will proudly host the 2nd National Youth Advisory Council Summit, a forum for young people with an out-of-home care experience (i.e. foster, residential, kinship care) [...]
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December 3, 2009
Thursday 3rd December 2009
KIDS IN STATE CARE RECEIVE KENMORE KINDY’S CHRISTMAS KINDNESS
Kenmore Kindy is sharing the spirit of giving at Christmas with the kindy kids giving gifts to some of the 6,600 kids in QLD who will be spending this Christmas in state care (i.e. foster, residential and kinship care). A special ‘giving’ event will be [...]
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November 26, 2009
CREATE Foundation National Office,
Level 6, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
(02) 9267 1999 or 1800 655 105
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Thursday 26 November 2009
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS LACK OF CONSULTATION WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
Today saw the release of the Victorian Ombudsman’s “Investigation into the Department of Human Services Child Protection Program”. The following is a response issued [...]
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November 18, 2009
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Wednesday 18 November 2009
LESSONS FROM THE PAST LEAD TO EMPOWERING TODAY’S KIDS IN STATE CARE
November 16 saw Prime Minister Rudd’s Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants on behalf of the nation, highlighting the community’s collective conscience regarding the urgency surrounding efforts to recognise the past and to improve the lives of today’s [...]
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November 18, 2009
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EMBARGO APPLIES UNTIL:
5am Wednesday 18 November 2009
NEW REPORT REVEALS OVER 60% OF KIDS WITHOUT LEAVING CARE PLANS
Sydney, Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, a new report on the experiences of young people transitioning from out-of-home care will be launched. Titled, Report Card 2009: Transitioning from care: Tracking progress the report found that over 63%1 of young [...]
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October 26, 2009
Sexual abuse, pregnancy and finally education
ADELE HORIN
Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, Monday 26 October, 2009
WHEN Jenna dropped out of school halfway through year 7, no one thought to question too deeply. She was just an unfortunate 13-year-old who became pregnant, and her stepfather assured the authorities she would be educated at home.
But for Jenna (not [...]
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April 23, 2009
ABC AM transcript
Reporter: Michael Turtle
TONY EASTLEY: Every year, thousands of Australian children who leave state care end up on the streets; some to become drug-addicted, perhaps pregnant or unemployed.
And to make matters worse, Government policies designed to help them are often not being put into place, according to a new study by the peak advocacy [...]
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November 21, 2008
Published on The Australian 21 Nov, 2008
By Caroline Overington
FORMER judge James Wood QC is preparing to hand down a landmark report on child welfare without having met any of the 12,800 children in state care.
The Australian understands that Justice Wood did meet four young people at his city officeswho were once in care, bur none [...]
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September 8, 2008
Published on Times2
By Michael Ruffles
Many children in foster care suffer as support disappears once they get older. So who can they turn to when they’re down and almost out? Michael Ruffles reports
Turning 18 is usually wonderful. The parties are exciting, finishing school is a relief, and there is nothing like moving out of home and [...]
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September 7, 2008
Published in The Sun-Herald
By Sarah Price
Move out can prove difficult
Tough transition . . . Anthony Vale wants the age at which young people are made to move from state care increased.
Photo: Jacky Ghossein
THOSE who have grown up in care say more support for young adults leaving foster homes, group accommodation and juvenile institutions is [...]
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May 21, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday 21 May 2008
NEW REPORT REVEALS FAILINGS OF QLD’S INTENDED SUPPORT FOR KIDS LEAVING CARE
When people leave the state care system without support they are effectively jettisoned and are more likely to enter the Juvenile Justice system. A new report titled CREATE Report Card 2008: Transitioning from Care is set to launch [...]
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May 5, 2008
Published on The Canberra Times
By David Curry
TRANSITION: Amelia Mallett said she wasn’t given the right guidance when she left care.
(File photo – The Canberra Times: David Curry)
The ACT is the poorest performer of all governments in providing support for young people leaving foster care.
According to a national report, the ACT provides the shortest [...]
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April 30, 2008
A report card into support for children in foster care shows the ACT is lagging behind the states.
The report, by the CREATE Foundation, shows Canberra has the shortest period of support once government assistance runs out, in what is known as the ‘transition period.’
CREATE Chief Executive Officer, Jacqui Reed says in the ACT that is [...]
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April 27, 2008
Published on The Weekend Australian
By Elisabeth Wynhausen
Calls to do more about abuse and neglect ignore the realities for children in care, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
Unique kid: Former state ward Ben Flowers, who is now a productive member of society. Flowers says he was ‘just a typical attention deficit disorder case’
Pictures: Vanessa Hunter
CAROL was 12 when she [...]
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April 23, 2008
By youth affairs reporter Michael Turtle
Terri Glew is 22. At the age of five she and her sisters were taken from her heroin-addicted mother. She spent the next 11 years in foster care in rural New South Wales but then left, and ended up in refuges and other temporary accommodation.
“The best thing for a kid [...]
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April 20, 2008
Published on The Weekend Australian 19-20 April, 2008
By Elizabeth Wynhausen
A flood of child-abuse notifications is stretching resources and creating a bureaucratic, social nightmare, writes Elisabeth Wynhausen
One of the lucky ones: K. C. Weir is grateful to Queensland’s Department of Child Safety
Picture: David Sproule
THE boy was just five when he was taken from his family for [...]
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