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� Nine new complex targets to establish the Children ’ s Specialised Care Program to place children with sexualised behaviour in foster care .
� In response to the overwhelming numbers of children on Child Protection unallocated lists , Berry Street and Mackillop picked up case management for 20 families each on Supervision Orders . The success of this intervention has resulted in DHS completing some requisite policy work ( due diligence and legislative compliance ) in exploring the possibility of formally contracting supervision orders cases to CSOs .
� The time Berry Street provided Sue Thompson to work as chair of the ACCSA ( Australian Children ’ s Contact Service Association ) enabled the completion of several standards and guideline documents to be produced and also to convene another successful National Conference .
� The Berry Street – Pavilion School working relationship was formalised into a partnership in 2010 . This has resulted in a renaming of the school to be the “ Berry Street Pavilion School ” and Brendan ( Principal ) recommending this model as best practice for any future campuses .
� The first joint North West and South Eastern Regional Management Team Retreat , which focussed on : - some shared understandings of where and why we differ and opportunities for collaboration and support . � The 5 th and 6 th Darwin Experience adventure for 28 young people .
2.4.4 South Eastern Megan Pollard began in the Regional Director role in June 2010 . The region has successfully initiated a number of new services developments in the last few months and has celebrated some client and programmatic outcomes . These include : � An expansion of residential and case management service delivery into the Eastern region .
� DHS continue to request Southern Residential Services to tailor and provide specific care packages for children and young people who , due to their complexity are unable to be accommodated in the traditional system of care within the region . Two specialised care packages were formed in 2010 continuing into 2011 .
� We were successful in a tender to DEECD to provide complex case management and tuition to a group of 14 students , as well as professional learning for State school teachers ( for nine months ).
� The BEST Centre progressed a restructure of the school staffing model to operationalise the Berry Street Model of Education .
� Following a review of our Home Based Care program , a number of issues were identified . This has resulted in a redevelopment of the program .
2.4.5 Take Two � Take Two officially became an accredited health service through the
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards process . � We accepted our 2000 th referral in late 2010 . � Continued to grow and learn as a program in all areas of our work and continuing to integrate clinical practice , research and training .
� We became involved with three mainstream and two Aboriginal Family Coaching ( intensive placement prevention and reunification ) pilots . This expands our area of working alongside the family services field and has created new partnerships and built on established ones .
� Take Two ’ s involvement in the Bruce Perry Speaking Tour was a great opportunity for new learning , new networking and new version of the term ‘ team work .’