Berry Street Foster Care

Berry Street provides out-of-home care (foster care, kinship care and residential care) to the over 11,000 children and young people who cannot live safely at home each year. 

The number of people enquiring about fostering has halved in our program over the past twelve months, a trend shared by other organisations and to which we can hypothesise as to why and attribute various reasons. 

But the demand for foster care remains.

We are investing heavily in activity that works with community organisations and groups to raise the profile of foster care, dispel myths, and promote people to open their homes to a child or young person in need. 

Just in South East Metro alone, we receive an average of 54 children/young people referred each month and about 46% of these referrals for sibling groups. 

The population of the City of Glen Eira is 158,216 and currently, we only have 3 foster care households in the entire area of Glen Eira.

Please see flyer below for more information if you are interested in learning more about becoming a Berry Street Foster Carer.