system. Family Services has a critical role in promoting outcomes for vulnerable children and families, and provides a range of service interventions with a child centred/family focused approach. The CYFA outlines the basis for integrated service responses that address risk and support the changing needs of children, young people and their families through the development of Child FIRST and Child and Family Services Alliances. With the implementation of the CYFA 24 Child FIRST sites have been established in sub-regional catchments across (as of February 2009). The will include membership from Child FIRST, integrated family services, child protection, department partnership staff, representatives from other sectors/professional groups and representation from an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) where there is capacity and need for this to occur. In order to effectively intervene and assist families to meet children’s health, learning and developmental needs, will form partnerships with a range of other local secondary, universal and community ’s services. Where possible, catchment planning should align with and build on other planning occurring in the sub-regional catchment including primary care partnership catchments, child protection areas, early years networks, for example Best Start Partnerships, education networks, family violence networks and/or other key networks that may already exist. The Program requirements for family and early parenting services in Victoria 2012 states that and family services are ‘child responsible for developing and implementing a catchment plan. This reference guide supports the process to meet this requirement. Purpose of Catchment Planning Catchment Planning is a means of, and/or tool for, thinking through the broad and most significant issues affecting the catchment population and the ways an integrated partnership approach can bring all integrated family service agencies and relevant key stakeholders together to create the greatest impact. The broader thinking and planning involved in catchment planning focuses effort, targets priorities and uses service resources more efficiently and effectively. The purpose of catchment planning is to enhance the service system capacity to promote children, young people and their families’ wellbeing by: promoting children’s safety, stability and development improving outcomes for children and families aligning service planning and development identifying catchment priorities to determine service needs identifying approaches to support and enable capacity building within Aboriginal controlled services working collaboratively to support quality improvement, performance measurement and use of data for service planning identifying and actioning a learning and development strategy for the including population and service needs for the catchment describing performance and outcome measures for the catchment identifying and implementing linkages and coordination points with other networks and partnerships within the region or catchment, eg. Family Violence, Family Services and Child Protection Partnership Agreements
system. Family Services has a critical role in promoting outcomes for vulnerable children and families, and provides a range of service interventions with a child centred/family focused approach. The CYFA outlines the basis for integrated service responses that address risk and support the changing needs of children, young people and their families through the development of Child FIRST and Child and Family Services Alliances. With the implementation of the CYFA 24 Child FIRST sites have been established in sub-regional catchments across (as of February 2009). The will include membership from Child FIRST, integrated family services, child protection, department partnership staff, representatives from other sectors/professional groups and representation from an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) where there is capacity and need for this to occur. In order to effectively intervene and assist families to meet children’s health, learning and developmental needs, ’s will form partnerships with a range of other local secondary, universal and community services. Where possible, catchment planning should align with and build on other planning occurring in the sub-regional catchment including primary care partnership catchments, child protection areas, early years networks, for example Best Start Partnerships, education networks, family violence networks and/or other key networks that may already exist. The Program requirements for family and early parenting services in Victoria 2012 states that ‘child and family services are responsible for developing and implementing a catchment plan. This reference guide supports the process to meet this requirement. Purpose of Catchment Planning Catchment Planning is a means of, and/or tool for, thinking through the broad and most significant issues affecting the catchment population and the ways an integrated partnership approach can bring all integrated family service agencies and relevant key stakeholders together to create the greatest impact. The broader thinking and planning involved in catchment planning focuses effort, targets priorities and uses service resources more efficiently and effectively. The purpose of catchment planning is to enhance the service system capacity to promote children, young people and their families’ wellbeing by: promoting children’s safety, stability and development improving outcomes for children and families aligning service planning and development identifying catchment priorities to determine service needs identifying approaches to support and enable capacity building within Aboriginal controlled services working collaboratively to support quality improvement, performance measurement and use of data for service planning identifying and actioning a learning and development strategy for the including population and service needs for the catchment describing performance and outcome measures for the catchment identifying and implementing linkages and coordination points with other networks and partnerships within the region or catchment, eg. Family Violence, Family Services and Child Protection Partnership Agreements
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