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Carer Kafe
Carer Kafe is funded to provide learning and development opportunities to statutory kinship carers, accredited foster carers and permanent carers across Victoria. Delivered by expert facilitators and based upon principles of therapeutic care, trauma, healing, and connection to culture, Carer Kafe ensures there are many valuable opportunities for those just starting their caring journey, to carers with years of experience.
From launching in April 2017, Carer Kafe has provided a range of sessions and support to carers across the state, ensuring they obtain the knowledge, skills, and tools required to best care for children and young people in home-based care. The learning and development program crosses over five domains and includes that of Kinship Care Experience, Foster Care Experience, Caring for an Aboriginal and/or a Torres Strait Islander Child, Foundations of Care, and Specialist Topics.
The Carer Kafe program is hosted by three agencies working in partnership: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, Kinship Carers Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA) supported by a Governance Group (GG) which includes the following organisations:
Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH)
The Foster Care Association of Victoria (FCAV)
Kinship Carers Victoria (KCV)
The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA)
Victorian Aboriginal Children and Young People’s Alliance (The Alliance)
Explore Carer Kafe’s current learning and development opportunities here which are delivered online and in person at various locations.
Other opportunities for carer engagement includes attending retreats, conferences and viewing on-demand learning resources here, which includes webinars, podcasts, and online courses. To keep up to date, join their mailing list or follow them on Facebook.
