Intensive Family Support Services: Mid-West Gascoyne Region

Intensive Family Support Services (IFSS) provides support for families to keep children safe at home or to support families to reunify with their children safely. IFSS works with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families, prioritising Aboriginal families, and operates in 14 child protection Districts in WA. IFSS provides intensive in-home support for families currently working with Communities (with an existing open case) and where there is a need for extra support to be provided to improve family wellbeing and safety. The Service caters to families who are often experiencing disadvantage, complex challenges, and trauma, including intergenerational trauma. The Service primarily provides intensive in-home practical support and development of parenting and living skills for families currently working with Communities (with an existing open case) and where there is a need for extra support to improve family wellbeing and safety. IFSS support includes practical parenting education and skill development for parents and/or pre-birth families, focusing on living skills, child mental health, education, safety, and protective family skills.

Communities is seeking responses from suitable Respondents to provide IFSS across Communities’ Child Protection in the Mid-West Gascoyne region., The following table outlines the number of children in care in the Mid-West Gascoyne District as of 30 June 2023.

Children in care by District from Child Protection Activity Report 2022-23.