About KIDS OUT WEST

Kids Out West starts in 2014 when Directors, Jane and Daniel Maroulis saw that children and young people in Out of Home Care in Regional New South Wales often missed out on high quality support due to a lack of available services for children and young people in Out of Home Care or involved in the Family Law Court system in New South Wales.


Kids Out West is an innovative and regionally based preferred service provider for the Department of Communities and Justice and various Non Government Organisations. We specialise in providing flexible service delivery to meet the unique and challenging needs of rural and remote communities in New South Wales.

We are based in Paterson NSW, and cover a large area across the Central and Far West, Riverina, Newcastle/Hunter, Central Coast, New England, Sydney and the Mid North Coast regions. 


Kids Out West’s program delivers an accredited integrated model which underpins therapeutic care principles to deliver effective, flexible and high quality care for the children and young people in Out Of Home Care.  Kids Out West provides the child or young person with a small, high calibre care team who facilitate behavioural change through daily interactions consistent with the child or young person’s case plan goals. 



Our Vision

At Kids Out West, we recognise the importance of all children having a strong sense of identity and the right to feel safe and respected.
Our vision is to provide families, children and young people with the opportunity to access reliable, relevant and professional services to support, assist and enhance their ability to thrive.


 This is achieved by:

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Supporting children in having safe and child focused opportunities to spend time with parents and loved ones through supervised contact. We believe that ongoing contact with both parents and/or family members is a vital part of having a positive sense of identity and building resilience. Our focus is on ensuring that the child's best interests are paramount during these interactions. 

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We create a trauma-sensitive environment where children and adults are safe and feel safe.  Pro-actively prevent and/or de-escalate potential crisis situations with children. Manage a crisis situation in a therapeutic manner that reduces the risk of harm to children and staff.  Process the crisis event with children to help improve their coping strategies. Effectively deliver in-house TCI training.


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Using a strengths-based framework ensures that the care environment conducts a holistic and balanced approach in caring for the child or young person in Kids Out West’s care.  Therapeutic Youth Workers working together as a Team, to reach set goals for positive outcomes for the child/ren or young person.




04

Creating a reliable and professional service which is seamless in its engagement, communication and referral process. We recognise the difficult and important role of caseworkers and their managers and we aim to maximise our support.

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Keeping child safety at the forefront of our minds and to uphold the integrity and solid reputation Kids out West has formed  .

Our Values

Meeting the needs and exceeding expectations

Being Honest and having strong moral principles

Due regard for the feelings, wishes and rights of others

Work together towards a collective goal in an efficient manner

Coming up with new and improved strategies

Our Team

Our trauma informed trained and experienced  team of Therapeutic Youth Workers are working across a range of programs across NSW, supporting children and young people living with family, are in foster care, kindship care or residential care.

The Team at Kids Out West hold the following qualifications and training to provide the best practice in service and support for children and young people and families: