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Module 1 – Preparing & Adjusting To Your New Role – Agencies
Purpose
Children entering care often bring experiences of stress, loss, disrupted relationships, and environments that may have felt unpredictable or unsafe. These experiences shape how they interpret adult behaviour, transitions, routines, and correction. Practitioners need a clear, shared framework to support carers in responding with steadiness and attunement.
Module 2 – Working within a system – Agencies
Purpose
This practitioner tool supports foster and kinship carer practitioners to engage carers in understanding the child protection system, their role within it, and the supports available to them. It encourages reflection, clear communication, and practical application of knowledge related to roles, decision-making, meetings, and seeking support. The tool aligns with the Statement of Standards (Child Protection Act 1999, QLD) and promotes safe, stable, and collaborative care for children.
Module 3 – Creating a Therapeutic Environment in your home – Agencies
Purpose
This module strengthens practitioners’ ability to guide foster and kinship carers in creating environments that feel safe, predictable and nurturing for children with trauma histories.
It provides clear, trauma-informed and neuro-affirming frameworks to help carers understand behaviour, support regulation, build connection, and respond to big feelings in ways that promote healing and secure relationships.
Module 4 – Contact & Emotional Support – Agencies
Purpose
This module equips practitioners with trauma-informed knowledge and practical strategies to support carers and children before, during, and after family contact. It aims to strengthen carers’ understanding of the child’s emotional experience, promote safe and consistent responses, and help carers navigate the complexities of identity, attachment, and regulation surrounding contact.
Module 5 – A Chance to Reflect – Agencies
Purpose
Caring for children in the out-of-home care system is meaningful, demanding and deeply relational work. This guide supports carers to think about placements, reflect on what children and families need and understand how their own wellbeing shapes their capacity to provide safe, steady care.
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Module 6 – Trauma & impacts on behaviour – Agencies
Purpose
This module supports practitioners to guide carers in understanding children’s behaviour through a trauma- and attachment-informed lens. It strengthens practitioners’ capacity to explain complex theory in accessible ways, support carers to respond with safety and predictability, and recognise the relational and nervous system needs underpinning behaviour. The practitioner role is positioned as one of containment, translation, and alignment, supporting carers to remain emotionally available while navigating uncertainty and complexity.
Module 7 – Holding Space for Emotions – Agencies
Purpose
This module aims to support practitioners to help carers understand and respond to children’s emotional dysregulation. It provides guidance on co-regulation, repair after conflict, and connection-first strategies, and equips practitioners to coach carers using trauma-informed, consistent, and reflective approaches.
Module 8 – Sexual Development, Boundaries & Consent – Agencies
Purpose
This practitioner tool is designed to support foster and kinship carer practitioners in engaging carers with deeper understanding, reflection, and application of knowledge related to sexual development, boundaries, consent, and online safety. It is aligned with trauma-informed care principles and the Statement of Standards (Child Protection Act 1999, QLD), promoting safe, respectful, and developmentally appropriate care.
Module 9 – Courageous Conversations – Agencies
Purpose
This module supports practitioners to engage in and facilitate courageous conversations with carers through a trauma-informed, child-centred lens. It positions partnership with carers as a core therapeutic and protective function, builds capacity to support carers to speak up with confidence, and strengthens shared responsibility while maintaining professional authority. The module promotes relational safety and alignment across adults to support child safety, wellbeing, placement stability, and carer sustainability.
Module 10 – A Chance to Reflect – Agencies
Why this resource
Caring for children in the out-of-home care system is meaningful, demanding and deeply relational work. This guide supports carers to think about placements, reflect on what children and families need and understand how their own wellbeing shapes their capacity to provide safe, steady care.
No Video.
Module 11 – Holding on to Hope – Agencies
Purpose
Carers operate within emotionally demanding contexts where burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma are real risks. This resource equips practitioners to foster active hope, recognise emotional depletion early, and promote sustainable care practices that strengthen both child wellbeing and carer capacity.
Module 12 – Preparing for the years ahead – Agencies
Purpose
This module supports practitioners to work alongside carers during periods of reflection and forward planning. It positions reflection as a trauma-informed, relational process that strengthens placement sustainability, carer confidence, and shared responsibility. Rather than treating reflection as a task or requirement, this module frames it as a supported conversation that helps carers make sense of their experience, name what has helped, and identify what support will be needed as care continues.