To provide a more individually tailored foster care service, Care Pathways offers a fee for service program called Options that provides individualised support options to children and young people with complex and extreme care needs, that cannot be met by mainstream services.
It is called Options because it comes in two forms:
- Residential
- Non-residential
The Residential Service
Provides customised residential care and support options to children and young adults. The structure of care for each residential house depends on how many young people are living in the residential facility and each young person’s needs. Some houses have one young person with one youth worker, while others have a sibling or even a group of three or four children.
Each young person has different needs and we are committed to recruiting a wide variety of professionals to ensure the best possible care is given.
The Non-Residential Service
Focuses on positive relationships between parent and child and is maintained in a safe and positive way.
In support of this objective, some of the services offered include:
- Facilitating family contact, or providing supervision
- Providing outreach support to young people with complex and extreme needs
- Transporting children and young people to family contact/supervising contact
- Transitioning from care assistance
- Completing reports after each contact with clients
Our other services
Residential Care | Semi-independent living | Options | Assesment and intervention service
“William and Bella came into our care when they were 3 and 5 years of age. It was a challenge caring for them in the beginning...
“I went to live with Don and Noela when I was 12 years old. They gave me a loving home where I had my own room and they made me feel safe and accepted...
