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collaboration with mental health services and other therapeutic treatment providers. Some of the agencies CYPS staff often utilise are:
• OneLink
• Police Community Youth Club (PCYC)
• Menslink
• Gugan Gulwan
• YWCA Canberra
• Capital Region Community Services
• Barnardos Intensive Intervention Service
• A Gender Agenda
• Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services
• The Junction Youth Health Service
• Ted Noffs Canberra
• Bunjillwarra (VIC)
• ACT Health through Counselling and Treatment Services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Specialist Youth Mental Health Outreach (SYMHO) who form part of CAMHS
• Headspace
• Relationships Australia
• The Adolescent Mobile Outreach Service (AMOS)
• Next Step Catholic Care.
3. CYPS supports an individualised therapeutic response for each child or young person in out of home care. This involves a care team that works closely with the child and their family and/or carers, to ensure that appropriate supports are in place.
The Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF), as part of the ACT Together consortia, provides therapeutic specialist support and advice specific to children and young people through the care team and professional meetings to collectively meet the child or young person’s needs.
As part of this process, a therapeutic assessor will undertake an evaluation of all information on the child or young person including health screening, observation and analyse the information gathered. The therapeutic assessor presents the information and their assessment to the child or young person’s therapeutic care team.
4. CYPS, in collaboration with the care team, will measure the individual child or young person’s progress and stability as a result of their engagement with mental health and other services they may be involved with. This is reviewed through various assessments undertaken and through collaborative and consultative efforts of the care team.
5. After careful consideration of the question, and advice provided by my Directorate, I have determined that the information sought is not in an easily retrievable form, and that to collect and assemble the information sought solely for the purpose of answering the question would be a major task, requiring a considerable diversion of resources. In this instance, I do not believe that it would be appropriate to divert resources from the provision of direct services, for the purposes of answering the Member’s question.
6. As above.
7. As above.
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