St. Luke's

Services offered by St Luke's Anglicare

Children and Family Services

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Homebase

Homebase provides intensive work with families. It is a diversionary service, which aims to prevent families from needing or continuing to need acute services.

The program works with families where:

- DHS are considering a placement, but where intensive work can minimise or eliminate the need for placement.
- the level of complexity of family issues means that there would be a danger of placement without intensive family work.
- intensive family work is needed to divert the family from requiring a more acute intervention service.

Families receive up to eighty hours of work in a ten-week period ie. a maximum of eight hours per week.

Homebase is available across the Loddon-Campaspe sub-region, so that families are able to receive the service as close to their home as possible.

All families will be referred through DHS, either as part of a case plan or in the assessment phase after a notification.

Families must agree to receive the service and this may be negotiated by the worker during the initial assessment period of two weeks.

Referrals may be made if the protective worker considers protective concerns are such that a more intensive, ten week intervention will resolve family issues. If Homebase is being considered for a family, a St Luke's worker is usually invited to the case-planning meeting. Homebase may occur as part of a Supervision Order or to enable children or young people to be reconciled with their families.

ACCESS: DHS staff to use the Homebase/Families First Referral Form, after discussion with Request Worker.