The Liberal Government is urging young people with a care experience to apply for the new round of Dame Roma Mitchell Grants to help them study and live independently.
Read my latest newsletter distributed to my electorate on the 2019/20 State Budget.
At my stall at this year’s Prospect Fair one of the free activities will be making items from corks.
The Liberal Government has rapidly turned around the number of children and young people in care with completed case plans in just 12 months.
A Liberal Government program which extended carer payments for young people up to the
age of 21 has already been accessed by 17 young people and more than 100 are set to
become eligible over the next three years.
A new, more engaging foster care recruitment website is attracting strong attention from potential carers, generating almost 80 online enquiries in its first month.
The Department for Child Protection has released its first Aboriginal Action Plan with the aim of helping reduce the over representation of Aboriginal young people and children coming into care.
The Marshall Liberal Government has handed down the 2019/20 State Budget. The budget has many measures that will be implemented in the Electorate of Adelaide and will assist my constituents.
The State Government has engaged InComPro to establish an Aboriginal-specific residential care service for young people that is both therapeutic and culturally responsive.
The ground-breaking Northern suburbs service, which is scheduled to open later this month, will house four Aboriginal young people across two homes.
InComPro is now one of two Aboriginal community-controlled organisations that specialise in providing residential care for Aboriginal young people.
Since the commencement of the Prospect chapter of Operation Flinders in 2013, I am proud to report that, together with the generous sponsorship of local Service Clubs, we have raised more than $88,400 in support of over 55 young people at risk.
Please join me again this year for another quizzical night in support of a great cause!
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