What is the Safe Families Program?
The Act for Kids Safe Families Program uses a multigenerational approach to support families impacted by domestic and family violence (DFV) in the Moreton Bay area.
Using a Key Worker model, we ensure each family member has their own practitioner, including the child, the adult survivor, and the person using violence. Our team coordination ensures no family member is overlooked, each person’s needs are met, and safety remains the top priority. This can include (but is not limited to) addressing motivation to change, perpetrator accountability, protective parent vulnerability, repairing attachment, increasing empathy, and communication with high conflict individuals.
We provide evidence-based, individualised interventions; adapted based on each family’s unique strengths, risks and needs. Our focus is to support: behavioural changes for the person using violence, safety planning for survivors, and healing for children and young people and their families and caregivers.
What we do:
- Risk assessment, safety planning, and immediate emotional and practical support during acute situations
- Practical support including:
- Assistance accessing housing, healthcare, financial support, and legal assistance,
- Systems navigation and advocacy with courts, housing, and child protection.
- Trauma-informed therapeutic intervention including emotional regulation and skills training to process experiences of abuse and support healing
- Group programs that reduce isolation and build skills
- An accountability orientated approach to intervention with people using violence
- We offer access to group programs such as:
- Caring Dads
- Love Bites
- Shark Cage
- Rhythm 2 Recovery
Why Safe Families Works
We support long-term recovery and reducing future demand on child protection and DFV systems, centred around:
- Improved family safety and child wellbeing
- High-quality therapeutic interventions, coordinated across the whole family
- Culturally responsive and inclusive services
- Frequent outcome tracking and professional reporting
Support Packages and Funding Options
For government agencies such as Youth Justice and Child Safety, we offer a flexible fee-for-service model. Packages can be tailored to suit the intensity and duration of support required, providing measurable outcomes and regular reporting aligned with your frameworks.
We also have some philanthropic funding available to support community-based referrals at no cost to families.
Contact Us
Please reach out directly to our Safe Families team at:
Changing the lives of kids in Australia
Five-year-old Maddie was physically, emotionally and verbally abused by her parents from birth, witnessing severe domestic violence and substance abuse, including Ice.
For the first six years of his little life, eight-year-old Aiden was beaten, burned, threatened, and degraded.