Family Support Organizations: Overview, Mission, Programs and Importance of Early Childhood Services

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Working with Family
and Community
Partnerships
Student’s Details
8/17/2019

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Executive Summary
Family support provides services or special care to the people who are in need. It can include the
child, adult or even parent in the families who have some sort of disability. Family support
services are given by providing support to communities such as physical, mental, emotional
assistance and providing the communities with necessary education and career coaches and food
assistance to lower income communities. These services are availed by family support
organizations who constantly make efforts for the improvement of mental health of the children
and protecting them from physical or mental abuse. The purpose of these organizations is to
promote mental health and making overall development of the people suffering from mental and
physical illness.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Overview of the organizations.........................................................................................................3
Mission, Aims and Outcomes..........................................................................................................4
Geographical Coverage and Target Groups....................................................................................5
Disadvantages and Risk Factors relating to Family Support Organizations...................................6
Programs or Projects Provided........................................................................................................6
Importance of early childhood services in Family Support Organizations.....................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Family Support Organizations are country based organizations that provide emotional
and behavioral support to family members. The purpose of this organization to provide family to
family peer support, education, advocate services and other services to children, adult or parent
in the family (Demirtas, Arslan, & Karaca, 2019). Here, the report is prepared on the family
support organizations of Canterbury NSW area. These organizations provide support to early
childhood (birth 8 years) and have major contribution towards the mental wellbeing of the
children and the protecting them from emotional, physical and sexual abuse (Saul & Simon,
2016). The organizations highly focus on children to maintain a healthy relationship with the
family members. For this report, five family support organizations are taken which are Catholic
Care Family Support, Koorana Child and Family Services, Linking Hearts Multicultural Family
Services, Creating Links (NSW) Ltd and Canterbury and Arabic Family Support Service.
However, the report discusses the overview of all the organizations and also the mission, aims
and objectives of all the five organizations. Further, the geographical coverage and target groups
are discussed along with disadvantage and risk factors associated with these organizations.
Lastly, the projects of these organizations and importance of early childhood services in family
support organizations are analyzed.
Overview of the organizations
The overviews of five family support organizations are discussed as below:
Catholic Care Family Support – This organization provides support to the children of
age 0 to 12 years who are experiencing stress and also act as domestic violence specialist for the
people in need. The organization majorly focuses on providing support to not only children, but
also young people and their family members (Guerra, Farkas, & Moncada, 2018).
Koorana – Koorana Child and Family Services Ltd is a non-profit organization
established over 40 years ago engaged with providing early education to the children and also
satisfy the family needs of the children to live happily and make new friends and gain their
potential (Koorana, 2015).