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Australia’s leading provider of high-quality training and assessments for foster, kinship and guardian carers.

How Our Training Supports You as a Carer

Fostering Growth’s courses are designed to strengthen your confidence, skills, and wellbeing so you can provide safe, nurturing care.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Understand the emotional, social and cognitive impacts of trauma
  • Recognise and respond to signs of abuse and neglect
  • Use therapeutic, trauma-informed parenting strategies
  • Support children’s behaviour, regulation and attachment
  • Create a safe, predictable home environment
  • Build your own resilience and reduce stress in the caring role

Our training is practical, real-world, and grounded in what carers tell us they need most — clarity, confidence, and support.

Give Your Carers Unlimited Access to Training & Peer Support

When your agency subscribes to Fostering Growth, every carer receives unlimited access to:

  • 24/7 on-demand training, whenever carers need it
  • Regular facilitated peer support sessions
  • Direct guidance from qualified trainers, assessors and social workers with extensive OOHC experience

Our team supports carers with practical strategies, connection, and confidence — helping them feel valued, skilled, and never alone in the caring role. Empower your carers. Strengthen your placements. Partner with Fostering Growth.

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Benefits for Your Agency

Cost-effective: Access 45+ online courses from just $80 per carer per year — unlimited access and peer support sessions included.

Compliance made easy: Meet accreditation standards with clear training records and carer certificates emailed monthly.

Placement stability: Better prepared carers = safer relationships and environments that support healing.

Staff efficiency: Fostering Growth develops, delivers and coordinates carer’s training needs. Carers can contact Fostering Growth directly for assistance and IT support.

Specialised Services

Online training

Fostering Growth offers convenient online training courses specifically developed for carers and workers in the out-of-home care sector.
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Webinars

Fostering Growth offers informative and interactive webinars for carers and workers in the out-of-home care sector.
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Face-to-face Training

Fostering Growth offers face-to-face training packages at your office for carers and workers.
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Assessments and Reviews

Fostering Growth’s adaptable and flexible assessment options can be tailored to a particular type of care.
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Assessments and Reviews

Fostering Growth’s adaptable and flexible assessment options can be tailored to a particular type of care.
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Restoration Services

Fostering Growth offers a range of tailored therapeutic services to birth families and foster carers through one-on-one coaching sessions.
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Online Courses Available

Fostering Growth offers a range of tailored therapeutic services to birth families and foster carers through one-on-one coaching sessions.
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Fostering Growth acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work. We acknowledge their cultures are living ones, which relate to their ongoing connection to all things living and non-living on land, sea and sky. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present. Fostering Growth supports the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander placement principles that keep children connected to their culture.

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Tammy McKee

Tammy is a strong advocate for social justice. She works tirelessly to bring about social change and quality care for children, young people and their families.

Along with 15 years experience working in the out-of-home care sector, Tammy has held positions in Families First, early intervention roles. Tammy is an experienced and motivated trainer and enjoys seeing carers reach their full potential.

Tammy has qualifications in psychology, sociology and marketing. She holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

Alison Ewington

Alison Ewington is an educator and trainer, qualified in Early Childhood, Social Science and Social Welfare. Alison is a well-respected member of the community service sector and is a Welfare teacher at the Institute of TAFE NSW. Alison has been responsible for a number of professional training programs which included developing and delivering a ‘safe home’ workshop for Child Care staff in NSW on the impact of domestic and family violence on children. Alison was a facilitator of ‘keep them safe’ training to Mandatory reporters when introduced in NSW. As an Out of home care manager Alison has extensive experience working with children, young people and families who have experienced trauma. Alison is involved in all aspects of fostering growth and is an experienced trainer, assessor and reviewer. Alison has a particular interest in training & supporting carers to support the healing of children from abuse, neglect, grief, and loss.