About Us

We believe that together we can build a community where all children and young people feel safe to dream, to thrive, and to reach their fullest potential.
 

Caring since 1903

Parkerville Children and Youth Care exists to provide advocacy, services and supports to children, young people and families to reduce the impacts of child abuse and in doing so help WA to become the safest place in the world to bring up children. 

Every year, we support more than 10,000 people across Western Australia through our child advocacy services, integrated family services, early intervention and prevention, youth homelessness and supports, therapeutic foster and residential care program. Their future depends on what we do in the present to assist them to reach their potential. 

Founded as the Parkerville Children’s Home in 1903, Parkerville Children and Youth Care has evolved into a dynamic, professional organisation that is leading the sector in innovative and responsive services. Our team of more than 250 skilled and experienced staff includes psychologists, social workers, teachers, occupational therapists, professional and respite carers, administrative and corporate personnel, working from Child, Youth and Family Centres in Midland, Armadale and Rockingham and our Head Office in Burswood, as well as from schools, advocacy and counselling centres across the metropolitan area.

We were the first Child Safe accredited organisation in Western Australia and have continued to build our reputation for compassionate and progressive evidence-based services.

As a registered charity, we are committed to developing innovative and culturally safe services in partnership with the government and other not-for-profit organisations to meet the needs of families in local communities and improve outcomes for them. We do this by providing:

• High specialised child advocacy teams that work alongside children, young people and their families to wrap whatever services and supports are required around them in order to help them through the first stages of disclosure of abuse, and until such time as our team is no longer required;
• Safe, nurturing and healing homes for children and young people who can no longer live with their families;
   
• Supported accommodation and specialist supports/services for young people experiencing homelessness;
   
• Reparative experiences, with intentional trusting and safe relationships that allow children, young people and families to heal from the harmful impacts of trauma;
   
• Support to help families find their strengths, connect safely and healthily with their children, community and culture so they can thrive and stay safe together;
   
• Education and early intervention so that children and young people can be better informed and so that parents or carers can help their children develop their full potential and stay safe;
   
• Educations employment and training opportunities for young people in specific education districts who are struggling with mainstream education;
   
• High-quality education for professionals on the prevention, impacts and treatment of trauma from abuse;
   

We enthusiastically embrace our multicultural community and pay our respect to the First Peoples of Western Australia, committing ourselves to action and reconciliation.

We are a force for change. Empowering people to transform their lives. Advocating for change in our sector and in our communities.

Our Values

As a strong, values-based organisation, we are dedicated to an ongoing journey of self-awareness, learning and improvement in everything we do because the children and young people with whom we work deserve nothing less.