The 2025 FCAV Foster Carer Snapshot Report , collected for March of 2025 indicates a continued decline of active carer household in Victoria. There ar...
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Enough is enough Carers are already volunteering their hearts and homes to provide care to young people who need them and the allowance rate is fallin...
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The session will include: How FCAV can assist you in your role as a foster carer Provide tips and advice Answer any questions about the caring role Pr...
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What to expect: Using creative art and self-care practices, we invite you to: Express your unconscious thoughts, worries, and grief. Take a moment to ...
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The FCAV invites foster carers to join us online for a relaxed, social event to meet with the FCAV CEO, Samantha Hauge and staff. Have you had challen...
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The FCAV invites agency and ACCO foster care staff to join us for a virtual chat with the FCAV CEO, Samantha Hauge and staff. Join us and other agency...
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Many carers have or will experience grief and loss in the course of their caring journey and may feel their experience is not widely understood or val...
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The DFFH Care Support Help Desk staff provide tailored support to Foster and Kinship Carers where there is child protection involvement, and they are ...
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As carers, the children and young people in your family play a vital role and form key relationships for children and young people who come into your ...
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International Women's Day 2025 This International Women’s Day we join the call from Dr Lisa J. Griffiths https://www.ozchild.org.au/iwd2025-march-forw...
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The Foster Care Association of Victoria (FCAV) extends heartfelt congratulations to Liana Buchanan on her appointment as Deputy Commissioner of the In...
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This is information clarifies the distinction between federal and state references to "carers," particularly regarding care allowances, supports, and ...
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School Saving Bonus Carers who were nominated as the primary contact for a school-aged child and young person attending state school in term 4, 2024, ...
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The FCAV is grateful to Paul Edbrooke, Labor Member for Frankston and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer , for establishing this multi-party col...
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The FCAV has recorded the Care Allowance rate over the past 4 financial years for the first age bracket (0-7) at Level 1.This includes the indexation ...
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CEO Samantha Hauge's speech delivered at the FCAV Carer Celebration for Foster Care Week 2024. "Welcome carers and friends from around Melbourne and V...
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As an FCAV member you have access to free advocacy, support & information. Your membership is instrumental to our strength, ensuring a better Victorian system for our carers, children & young people.
The Foster Care Association of Victoria acknowledges the unceded sovereignty of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation on whose land we live and work. We acknowledge the continued connection to Country including lands cultural knowledges and their peoples and pay respect to Elders past and present. We are the united voice and advocate for all foster carers across Victoria and we aim to continually develop our knowledge and act with respect to First Nations sovereignty.
The Foster Care Association of Victoria (FCAV) is a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission, with ABN 30747010099
