South East Region - Logan West Secondary Family Support Service

The Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (South East Region) seeks a suitably qualified supplier to provide a new Secondary Family Support service in the South East region, specifically Logan West. This will be achieved under the Families Investment Specifications, Version 5.0; the requirements for Vulnerable families with children (U3330); and the specific requirements of Support - Secondary Family Support (T334).
The contract will be for a period of three (3) years, with contract commencement 1 January 2017 and service delivery commencement 1 March 2017.
Secondary Family Support Services are required to reduce harm or risk of harm to children and young people, prevent crises or problems within families from arising or escalating and stabilise or maintain family wellbeing.
The outcomes to be achieved are:
• improve the wellbeing and safety of children, young people and their families
• build the capacity of families to care for and protect their children
• provide linkages to local universal support services/community groups to enable families to access the resources to build their capacity to solve problems and make positive choices and changes
• prevent entry or re-entry to the statutory child protection system.
Secondary family support services are designed to take referrals from government and non-government agencies where the family would benefit from access to family support interventions and/or referral to specialist support services.