Our Services
Social work services
Our Social Work services and programs partner with community-based organisations and Youth Service across the South East/west of Queensland. They extend but are not limited to providing accommodation and support to homeless and at-risk young people under 25, with an emphasis upon those aged 12 – 18.
Our Fundamental Practices
A collaborated and cohesive response that requires robust communications between our community-based organisations, our staff, and also our keyworker management teams.
A bespoke and individualised approach that identifies the needs of every case so that trauma is minimised on our youth and our staff.
We seek to engage and empower our youth to take an active role in activities around the home, hobbies, school and to identify personal goals so that they develop confidence and real-life skills.
We advocate for our Youth and are committed to supporting them to regain a sense of self as they integrate back into the community.
Our Programs are holistic as we look at education, personal development, community, friends and family engagement.
We place a high emphasis on Long Term solutions and Early Intervention to reduce the numbers of young people entering the homelessness or child protection system.
Youth Work Support and Mentoring
Our youth work and mentoring programs are individualised to the young person. Our diverse team can fulfil many different roles in the young person’s life helping them meet case plan objectives. Our compassionate youth workers are trained in different specialties allowing us to match the best youth worker for the young person’s needs. This program can be engaged for as little as three hours or continual engagement for as long as needed.
Our team come from all different backgrounds in life. All are equipped with the necessary training to provide care to complex children.
Available to support young people throughout the day
Providing direct care on a long and short-term basis
Specialised care building positive relationships, working towards fulfilling the young person’s long term goals.
Facilitate personal, social and educational development,
Relationship building, support more difficult things and can extend to :
Family contact supervision and transport. Workers facilitate an environment where families can spend quality time together working on creating healthy relationships while staying child-focused.
Community outreach support and supporting families in the community or the home
Crisis Support
Progressive understand crisis can happen any time of the day, usually outside of business hours. Our on-call is available 24/7 to provide youth work support when it is needed most.
Providing youth work to support young people in commercial accommodations (Emergent accommodation) while a placement is found. From the moment Youth work first engage with that young person, Youth work start to implement boundaries and structure. All our young people supported in commercial accommodation are expected to cook healthy meals, keep the apartment tidy, and do laundry. Youth work does this WITH the young person, teaching basic living skills.
Progressive believe implementing boundaries and rules will bring about transformation that facilitates a smoother transition into placement for both the young person and the family and/or community that they are placed into.
Bespoke services
We can provide bespoke services to support you and the youth. These services are provided in consultation and can include the following:
Community Outreach services
In-home support: Provide support to families in-home prior to children requiring removal
Family Contact supervision: Collecting and delivering children to and from family contact and supervising interactions
Transport: Transporting young people to and from appointments
(IPS funded) Residential setting/placement services
Certified, safe properties that are selected personally for children in mind
Properties that have a homely feel with all the facilities that children require without feeling like they are in a “resi”
Court advocacy and support