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Child-centred, Consultancy, Assessment, Therapy and Training Services (CCATTS)
The core objective of CCATTS is to promote and facilitate safe, stable and nurturing environments for children, families, parents or carers.
There is unequivocal evidence that a cohesive and functioning family is the optimum environment for a child's healthy development: physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually. CCATTS is committed to ensuring that all children and their families can access quality psychological services.
CCATTS offers...
Consultation to foster, kith/kin and residential carers, schools and other professionals involved with children who live in out-of-home care and where the child is exhibiting challenging behaviours. Some children have been deeply wounded by their past experiences; leaving them troubled and confused. In turn their behaviours trouble and confuse those who care for them.
This consultancy aims to maintain, support and enhance their current placement by exploring the underlying causes of the child’s behaviour and providing tailored intervention and behavioural management strategies.
Eligibility: This is available for children who live in out-of-home care in the Southern Metropolitan Region and where there is current Child Protection involvement. Only Child Protection staff are able to refer to this service.
Fees: The service is free for children where Child Protection is involved, otherwise this service is provided on a fee-for-service basis.
Assessment of children is tailored to the child’s circumstances and may include direct observations, consultation with professionals, interviews with people significant in to and for the child and/or cognitive testing. Assessments take account of the child within the context of their family relationships, their care histories and their educational capacities.
Eligibility: Any child or family living in the Southern Metropolitan Region are eligible.
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Fees: The service is provided on a fee-for-service basis. There are four levels of fee, depending upon the specific circumstances:
- a simple assessment $440 + GST;
- moderate assessment $1650 + GST
- outreach based assessment $2200 + GST
- complex outreach based assessment $3300 + GST
Low Cost Therapy for adults (who have a child in their care on a part or full time basis) and/or children. Each intervention is designed by a psychologist to address the specific needs and may involve a combination of individual, couple or family therapies.
Eligibility: This is available to families who live in the City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong or Shire of Cardinia.
Fees: This is provided on a fee for-service-basis, with a sliding scale depending upon income and in some circumstances may be bulk billed.
Training and case consultation to agencies, government departments, education staff and carer groups. These opportunities facilitate understanding about what a child’s behaviours communicate and how professionals can work with these behaviours.
Fees: There is fee-for-service based on each specific request.
CCATTS can assist...
- relationship difficulties for couples, siblings, families or blended families;
- anxiety and depression;
- parenting approaches and decisions;
- understand and manage children’s behaviours. For example; destruction of property, lying, stealing, indiscriminate affection, aggression, regressive behaviours, sexualised behaviours etc;
- coping with childhood abuse and neglect;
- the impact of childhood abuse on coping and parenting;
- creating healing environments at home and school for children who have sustained trauma or experienced disrupted care;
- children who live in care;
- case planning through cognitive or other psychometric assessment.
To make referrals…
Referrals for Therapy can be made by contacting the Connections Child First Intake Service on 03 9704 8377.
Referrals for Consultancy can be made by contacting the Unit Manager at the Department of Human Services or the CCATTS Program Manager on 03 9704 8377.
Referrals for Assessment, Training or case consultation can be made by contacting Connections CCATTS Program Manager on 03 9704 8377.