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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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 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 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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