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Agency Objectives
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 To arrange for the support of families through providing options of respite & crisis care to assist in avoiding the removal of children, adolescents or adults from their families and community in the least restrictive manner.
- To provide substitute care only as a last and only when such care is seen to be the least restrictive and detrimental available alternative for the child.
- To limit care to the shortest duration so as not to jeopardize existing and established relationships.
- To promote the principle of continuity of care by facilitating family contact and familiar community access where possible.
- To promote the principle of normalization and integration for all children in care.
- To support the family in the promotion of primary social values consistent with what is in the child’s interest.
- To maintain the child’s physical, social emotional and cultural needs.
- To protect children from abuse and exploitation by offering a place of safety.
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