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Resi-care in Queensland is meant to be a last resort, but it’s needed more than ever
Just before his 16th birthday, Zephaniah Kennedy admitted himself to the Toowoomba Youth Mental Health Service ward and spent the next three days there on suicide watch.
Key points:
- Resi-care is meant to be used as a last resort, but numbers in Queensland have increased by 45 per cent over seven years
- This year the State invested $1.3 billion in care and added an extra 500 frontline child safety officers
- A Toowoomba charity is training therapy dogs to help support children in residential care
Zephaniah, who had been in the child protection system since the age of 10, feared for his future after another foster placement had broken down.
“I felt so absolutely robbed [of] hope,” he said.
“I very well could have ended up in a residential care…
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