Join FCAV
Join FCAV
Join Online Now or download the Membership Application Form
12 great reasons to become an FCAV member:
Here at FCAV our mission is to strengthen foster families and enhance the well-being of the children in their care.
As a foster carer, there are several ways that FCAV can assist you:
Support
- Provides you with an independent perspective on questions or concerns you have relating to foster care.
- Provide clarification about your rights and responsibilities as a foster carer.
- Attendance at meetings for support.
- Regional visits to carer groups to learn what issues are effecting carers in your area.
- Act as another support if you are experiencing difficulties with your foster child.
- Bring you up-to-date information about foster care through regular newsletters and
e-News publications. - Provide you with accurate and concise information through our Info Sheet series.
- Provide you with an informative and easy to navigate website.
- Offer training opportunities (some free) with leading practitioners in raising foster children.
- Provide summaries of staff and/or carer attendance at training, seminars and conferences to ensure the information learned is shared across our carer membership.
- At the policy level, we represent your views and work to improve the foster care system through government consultation to influence policy development.
- Our participation in policy, sector and government working groups ensures the interests of carers are considered in all levels of policy and best practice.
Your community service organisation or foster care agency undertakes your caregiver assessment, facilitates training and is the contact for and offers support to you in your caring role with children and/or young people.
Separate to this, the FCAV is the voice of foster carers and this voice, works to improve the system for the children and young people we care for. FCAV responds to government consultations to influence policy development. We also drive action on themes that we see emerging through carers calling the Carer Information and Support Service (CISS) and as the voice of foster carers to represent your views in our responses to Government.
Become a member of FCAV, it's free, and add your views as foster care families to our work and assist in ensuring a better system for our children/young people.
Membership categories
- Ordinary Member:
The following categories of people are eligible to apply for Ordinary Membership:- any person providing Home Based Care;
- former providers of Home Based Care;
- any person over the age of 21 years who is or has been in Home Based Care;
- any person with expertise required by the Board of Directors who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, holds values consistent with the purposes of the association. Employees of the association are not eligible for Ordinary Membership, but may apply for Associate Membership.
- Associate Member:
Any person (which, for the purposes of this clause 3, includes any organisation which has status as a legal entity separate from its members), including an employee of the Association, is eligible to apply for admission as an Associate Member if, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, they hold values consistent with the purposes of the association. Associate Members have the rights and responsibilities of Ordinary Members other than voting rights. They do not have the right to be nominated for or hold office. Statutory or non-statutory kinship carers fall into this category.
Join Online Now or download the Membership Application Form (PDF, 58kb)
Our Purpose
Advocate for foster carers, their families and the children in their care to ensure all
voices are heard;
Work in partnership with agencies and the sector to provide an improved foster care
system;
Provide support and learning for carers directly, through various forums, or in
partnership with agencies;
Build FCAV intelligence in order to be identified as a recognised and viable authority
in the sector;
Promote the awareness of foster caring to assist in public understanding of the role
and agency recruitment of carers;
Our Vision
To provide information, support and advocacy to carers that ensures they can offer
children and young people in their care a healing environment which assists the child or
young person to reach their full potential.
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Upcoming Events
| Australian Childhood Foundation 3 day training 24 & 25 Feb & 3 March 2012 in Dandenong Fri, 24th Feb, 2012 |
| ACT Training Seminar: How to Raise Conflict 28 February 2012 in Fitzroy Tue, 28th Feb, 2012 |
| FCAV Regional Training: Horsham 21 March 2012 Wed, 21st Mar, 2012 |