Foster Care Week is an annual event celebrating and raising awareness about foster care; the carers providing it, and their role in the lives of the children and young people of Victoria who need them.
The events and celebrations held during foster care week aim to highlight and appreciate our valuable pool of foster carers and the contribution they make in the lives of children and young people and to the community.
The FCAV hosts a Foster Care Week calendar of events that take place across the sector and the state. Thank you to the agencies and ACCOs that hosted a range of fantastic events making Foster Care Week 2024 ‘Today’s carers, Tomorrow’s future' a triumph of celebration, awareness and recognition of carers at events, online and in the media.
Foster Care Week is an important time to elevate the carer voice and build on sector engagement, to highlight advocacy priorities, and increase collaboration and partnerships for the shared aims of better support to home-based care, carers and children in care.
This is an opportunity to capitalise on the greater media and community awareness to promote foster carers, undertaking one of the most challenging but important volunteer roles in the community.
FCAV was so pleased to be a part of carer appreciation events around the state this year including FCAV CEO, Samantha Hauge attending the OzChild Carer Gala evening, speaking at the Foster Care in Conversation event with Mallee Family Care in Mildura, and their carer celebration events in Swan Hill and Mildura. Tessa Hughes, Carer Support Team Manager attended several events including at CAFS Ballarat, Life without Barriers and at Anchor Community Care. Anna Viola, Communications Manager was delighted to attend the Meli Foster a Future Breakfast with Meli carers and staff in Geelong. It was an honour to meet the carers and teams celebrating foster care week around the state.
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Foster Care Week is also host to the FCAV's Annual Commitment to Supporting Carers Awards 2024. Read on for more about the shortlisted workers carers nominated this year and our final winners.
