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About Helping Community Solutions
A community sector organisation providing out-of-home care arrangements that help Western Australia’s most vulnerable children and young people to heal, feel safe, experience stability and belonging.
Who we are
Every child needs protection and care
Most Western Australian children grow up in a family that protects and cares for them. For some, home is not a safe place. Where a child needs protection, and as a last resort, the Department of Communities takes action to bring them into the CEO’s care.
On behalf of the WA community, the CEO of the Department of Communities assumes parental responsibility for these children. Out-of-home care exists to provide safe, stable, nurturing care arrangements so children can heal from the trauma they have experienced and go on to lead their best lives, while maintaining lifelong connections with their family, carers and other safe, nurturing people.
Helping Community Solutions is a community sector organisation providing residential care and out-of-home care arrangements, from emergency and short-term through to long-term care, for children and young people in need of protection and care, working alongside the Department of Communities, Crisis Care and other state agencies.
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUT-OF-HOME CARE
Why Helping Community Solutions exists
In 2016 the Department released its out-of-home care reform plan, Building a Better Future: Out-of-Home Care Reform in Western Australia, calling on the community services sector to deliver more innovative, flexible and efficient care. Helping Community Solutions exists to meet that need for the most vulnerable members of our community.
Empathy and patience
Children and young people referred to us often display behaviours of concern shaped by abuse, neglect and trauma. We meet them with compassion and a future-focused perspective.
Evidence-based practice
Our Care Coordinators and Youth Workers deliver the highest standard of care through the Helping Community Solutions Model of Care and proven, trauma-informed practice frameworks.
A future-focused perspective
We support children and young people in care to reach their full potential, experience belonging, and be valued and included in the Western Australian community.
Our vision
Where we’re heading
Safer accommodation
Safer, more suitable care arrangements for children and young people in our care and in the CEO’s care.
Better health outcomes
Improved health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in care, and wider application of trauma-informed care.
Pathways to independence
Stronger leaving care planning, with increased access to employment and opportunities for self-determined income as young people transition from care to independence.
Learn more about how we care
Explore the model, the people and the governance behind every Helping Community Solutions care arrangement.