Welcome to Burrun Dalai Aboriginal Corporation Inc.
Burrun Dalai Out of Home Care & Family Support Service is a Government funded not for profit, Aboriginal community controlled organisation. Its main function is to provide foster care to Aboriginal children and young people of the Macleay and Nambuccca Valley’s and to support the families of those Aboriginal children and young people.
When children or young people cannot live with their family, we work together with other agencies to try to restore them to their natural (or birth) family, and only when this is not possible,do we place children and young people in culturally aware, trained and loving Aboriginal foster families.
- NEWSFLASH!!!
Burrun Dalai now has an Aboriginal Intensive Family Based Service
The Aboriginal IFBS provides an intensive, time-limited, home based program for Aboriginal families in crisis (including extended family). Children in these families are at risk of entering Out-Of-Home Care placement due to protective concerns or have been placed in out-of-home care (OOHC).
Burrun Dalai’s Intensive Family Based Services primary goal is to stabilise crisis and assist children who are at imminent risk of placement in Out- Of- Home Care to remain home with their families and community in a safe, stable and nurturing environment.
Our objectives are:
• To keep Aboriginal children and young people safe
• To protect children and young people from abuse and exploitation by offering a place of safety in times when it is needed
• To provide out of home care as a last resort and only when such care is in the best interest of the child or young person
• To support the foster family to provide the best possible care to best meet the unique needs of the child or young person
• To meet the child or young person's physical, social, emotional, educational, and cultural needs whilst within a Burrun Dalai program
• To assist in keeping children and young people in their families and communities
• To limit foster care to the shortest time where possible so as not to jeopardise family relationships
Burrun Dalai's vision is to maintain Aboriginal family values that have traditionally involved the extended family members and community members in the care and development of children.
That's why it is important that our carer's or one carer in a family is Aboriginal. There is nothing new in what we are doing, but we must recognise that supporting family in today's society can be difficult.
If you are an Aboriginal person living in the Macleay or Nambucca Valleys, and are wanting to provide a safe and nurturing home for an Aboriginal child or young person, then please download, complete and send back to us a Foster Carer Application Package. Follow the Carers link above.