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Young People's Experiences of Receiving Individual Packages of Care in South Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2014

Ryan Ogilvy  and
Damien W. Riggs
Ryan Ogilvy
Affiliation:
Flinders University, Adelaide, SouthAustralia
Damien W. Riggs*
Affiliation:
Flinders University, Adelaide, SouthAustralia
*
address for correspondence: Damien W. Riggs, School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia5001. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore the role that professional foster care – and specifically Individual Packages of Care (IPC) in South Australia – plays in providing an alternative care option for young people who are unable to live with their birth parents due to issues of abuse or neglect, but who also, due to behavioural concerns, are not well suited to a traditional foster care placement. Participants in the study were nine young people who had previously lived in an IPC placement. The findings highlight participants’ experiences of living in the context of an IPC placement, experiences that were at times challenging, but which also provided opportunities for growth and positive change that may not have been possible in a traditional foster care placement.

Keywords

foster careindividual packages of careprofessional carebehaviour management
Type
Articles
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Children Australia , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 49 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2014 

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