News – Foster Care

Becoming a foster carer is one of the most rewarding things you can do. You’re providing some of Australia’s most vulnerable children with a safe,...

Foster care is one of the most important ways you can give back to the community, gain a sense of reward and help change a child’s life for the better....

Imagine having the ability to change a child’s life, giving them the support they need to grow up happy, safe and healthy. This incredible achievement...

Across the eastern suburbs a need for foster carers is growing and it’s families like the Pirie’s from Mount Evelyn who are showing it doesn’t take...

  Foster carers in central Victoria will be the first in the state to benefit from a ready-made social support system that creates a ‘care...

The COVID pandemic has put added pressures on families and more than ever, Australia has a shortage of foster carers. During Foster Care Week, leading child...

Deb and Michael have been foster carers for two years. They share with us their experience as to what it's like being foster carers to pre-teen...

Jenny and Tony Missen, met and got married in their early forties, but always thought they probably would have liked to have children. An episode of Home &...

33-year-old Jarline Mays from Wyndham Vale was a foster child from the age of seven. In the space of six years Jarline had lived with 13 different families and...

Unsurprisingly, 2020 was one of the busiest years on record for Anglicare Victoria’s foster care program. Fortunately, the willingness and dedication that...