Foundations Care is a not-for-profit organisation operating across Queensland, New South Wales, and Western Australia, dedicated to providing safe, stable foster and kinship care placements for children and young people who cannot live with their families.
With over two decades of experience, they focus on matching each child with culturally appropriate carers—including weathering diverse backgrounds—while maintaining strong ties to community and identity.
Foundations Care supports carers with initial and ongoing training, 24/7 caseworker access, financial allowances, and specialist behavioural support, all designed to build effective long-term outcomes for children and their foster families. Through a trauma-informed and research-based approach, supported by partnerships with academic and community organisations, they deliver therapeutic and evidence-based services aimed at enhancing the safety, wellbeing, and future prospects of vulnerable children.
Welcome to the forum, and thanks for the intro. Foster and kinship care work is important, and I think there’s real overlap with what this community deals with day-to-day — group homes, transition housing, and accessibility retrofits come up a lot on the renovation side.
A few things that might be useful if the Foundations Care work ever touches physical properties:
- Most folks here are in the reno-and-retrofit side of housing, so if your network ever coordinates accessibility or safety work on homes, this is a good place to post sourcing or spec questions.
- If any of your carer families are homeowners trying to plan upgrades on a tight budget, they’re welcome to drop questions directly — no self-promo needed, just plain-language answers.
Out of curiosity: does Foundations Care maintain any properties directly, or are placements mostly in private carer homes? The kinds of discussion that would fit this forum look pretty different depending on that answer.
Either way, glad to have the intro posted. If cross-border connections are useful, the onboarding thread pinned to the top of the forum is a good landing page for first-time posters.