Brighter Futures

Brighter Futures is a voluntary, targeted program designed for families encountering problems that impact on their ability to care for their children. The program provides families with the necessary support and services to help prevent an escalation of the problems they are facing. The program recognises that supporting families before problems reach a crisis improves family resilience, promotes healthy child development, and reduces child abuse and neglect.

Brighter Futures early intervention has three core goals:

promote healthy development in children
promote strong, functional and well-supported families, and
reduce and prevent child abuse and neglect in participating families.

Brighter Futures adopts a strengths-based practice approach that considers the individual, familial, social, cultural and environmental factors that may impact upon a family. This approach recognises that a family’s motivation for change and participation in a service is greatly increased when their strengths are recognised and fostered.

The program is a holistic in approach to early intervention integrating home visiting, parenting education programs, case management, childcare and brokerage for material assistance and specialist services.

Families are eligible for the program if they have at least one of the following vulnerabilities that, if not addressed is likely to escalate and impact adversely on the well being of children they include:

domestic violence
parental drug and alcohol misuse
parental mental health issues
a lack of extended family or social supports
parents with significant learning difficulties or intellectual disability
child behaviour management problems (e.g. parent/child conflict, school problems, parenting difficulties).

Referrals to the program can be made through a Community Service organisation, self referral or through the Community Services Helpline — the program is voluntary.

Contact Information

Brighter Futures Blacktown

Level 3, 85 Flushcombe Road,
Blacktown,
NSW 2148.
Phone: 02 8887 4800
Fax: 02 8887 4999

Brighter Futures Nepean

Suite 101, 148 Henry Street
Penrith NSW 2750
Phone: 02 4722 6577
Fax: 02 4732 6755
Email: BFNadmin@wesleymission.org.au

Brighter Futures Cumberland

Auburn Business Centre
Suite 38/Level 3
1-5 Harrow Road
Auburn NSW 2144
Phone: 9330 7200
Fax: 9330 7291

Community Services