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Advocates call to extend...
August 30, 2021 ABC radio interview on why NSW & Qld need to join the Home Stretch reform ... read more » -
Western Australia takes podium...
March 16, 2021 The campaign has congratulated newly-returned Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan... read more » -
Out-of-home care ends for many...
December 31, 2020 Shelley Farmer remembers growing up in out-of-home care as a tumultuous and, at times, traumatic experience.... read more » -
NSW lags nationally on caring for...
December 15, 2020 We have a situation where young people on one side of the Victoria-New South Wales border will have their care extended to the age of 21, while those on the other side will have theirs terminated at 18... read more » -
‘The single most significant...
November 24, 2020 The game-changing commitment means vulnerable young people will be able to stay in state care until the age of 21... read more » -
An easy win for Queensland’s...
October 27, 2020 With the Queensland election rushing up to meet us, there is a simple reform that could be life changing – and even life-saving – for the state’s most vulnerable young people... read more » -
Queensland major parties turn...
October 27, 2020 MEDIA RELEASETuesday 27 October 2020 Queensland’s major parties have so far ignored an opportunity in the lead-up to the election to give the most vulnerable young people in state care a better start to their adult lives, leaving the state out of step with most of the country, national Home Stretch Chair Paul McDonald said … Continue reading "Queensland major parties turn their backs on the state’s most vulnerable young people as election looms"... read more » -
Voices in Action – the CREATE...
September 22, 2020 September 2020 Earlier this year CREATE Foundation commenced a series of Podcasts giving a platform to children and young people in care to speak about their care experience. In each episode we hear from three CREATE Young Consultants with different experiences of transitioning from care to adulthood. As they revisit their experience of ‘growing up’, … Continue reading "Voices in Action – the CREATE Foundation Podcasts"... read more » -
Foster Care Week highlights need...
September 17, 2020 Wednesday 16 September 2020 The devastating effects of COVID-19 on the employment prospects of young people has heightened the need for state governments to universally extend foster care to the age of 21 across the country, Home Stretch Chair Paul McDonald said today during national Foster Care Week. The Home Stretch campaign represents hundreds of … Continue reading "Foster Care Week highlights need to extend care for our most vulnerable as COVID-19 continues to bite"... read more »
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