Social Work
The premise for Social Work at Kids+ is to collaboratively assist your child and family to live their best life.
Our Social Workers can work with your family and child’s therapy team to identify and develop a range of interventions to improve well-being, family/personal relationships and psychosocial outcomes in order to maximise your child’s quality of life and empower them to develop their full potential.
Social Work at Kids+ is child focused and family centered therefore available to support the needs of the child as well as the parent and caregiver. Social work can complement a child’s therapy team by working to identify and resolve complex barriers so that the focus can remain on the overall health and wellbeing of your family, assisting your child to reach their therapy goals.
Social Work at Kids+ can offer short-term counselling, as well as information and referral to community supports. Social Work can also offer capacity building therapy to support your child’s social and emotional goals.
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Our Social Workers can offer emotional support to families during challenging times. Our Social Workers is a person to talk to; give children and parents an opportunity to talk about their feelings, challenges and experiences and will listen without judgement. It can be helpful to confidentiality talk about such challenges, vent frustrations and bounce ideas off of a qualified professional who is removed from the situation. Together Social Work can assist you to develop coping strategies and support to adjust to having a child with a disability.
Social Work at Kids+ can offer confidential short term, responsive counselling to a child, sibling or parent. Our Social Worker can assist your family to explore stressors, coaching families through challenges and develop coping strategies. Should you need longer term supports Social Work will support you to link in with a suitable psychologist, family therapist or counsellor.
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Information and referral-
Social Work can meet with parents to get a better understanding of a family’s unique needs, source resources in the community and link families to essential supports. Social Work can also assist with the application and referral process.
Some things Social Work can assist with;
Support to understand your child’s NDIS plan and how to access and prioritise resources to meet identified goals
Supporting child/family life transitions
Provide information about carer supports, respite services and government benefits in order to sustain your caring role
Provide information about parenting support, family services, foster care and kindship care
Social Work can also assist to connect your family with specialist support relating to homelessness/housing insecurity, family violence and abuse, post traumatic events, grief and loss and cultural support
Provide linkages to community resources (family support, food relief, financial support, advocacy)
What our families say
“Kristy helped us through a very difficult time in our lives with empathy and kindness.. We will be forever grateful”
Meet the Kids+ Social Workers
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Kristy Waugh
Social Worker
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