Vision & Values

The vision for the Family Interaction Program is to educate, inspire, and provide exceptional support and psychological safety for individuals, including clients, trainees, therapy staff and professional staff, towards reaching their potential.

We value human rights, family empowerment, personal integrity, ethical service provision, cultural differences and innovative practices that respect and reflect our diversity of clients, community and staff in heritage, knowledge, needs, and lived experience.

Mission

To empower families through evidence-based parenting and child behavioural interventions, fostering equality and inclusion; compassionate and culturally sensitive care; and safe care, connection and well-being for all people, especially young people in statutory care.

Goals

To offer affordable, accessible, culturally sensitive, evidence-based, outcome-informed interventions and psychological services to community agencies and families within the child safety community and beyond.
To train exceptional therapists with up-to-date evidence-based interventions and provide accessible and comprehensive supervision. This includes ongoing professional and personal development opportunities in cultural responsiveness, family led decision making and trauma informed practice.
To ensure personal and cultural safety for clients, trainees and staff with the safety and best interests of children at the forefront of our practice.
To provide a setting conducive to high-quality program evaluation and research.