Brighter Futures

The Brighter Futures Early Intervention Program promotes, facilitates and supports:

• Healthy development in children
• Strong, functional and well supported families
• The reduction and/or prevention of child abuse and neglect in participating families
• Enhanced community capacity to support families

Please contact Sophie Corbett the Brighter Futures Group Support Worker for further information regarding this program on 4758 6811 or at sophie.corbett@mocs.org.au

Mountains Outreach Community Service delivers the Brighter Futures program in conjunction with the Blue Mountains Consortium.
The Blue Mountains Consortium is a group of nine organisations committed to providing the best possible system of support for children and families in the Blue Mountains. The group has come together to align their service policy, practice, programs and planning in order to create a coordinated and comprehensive service structure for families in the Blue Mountains. The following organisations belong to the Blue Mountains Consortium:

• Blue Mountains City Council
• Blue Mountains Family Daycare
• Blue Mountains Family Support
• Children’s Services Forum
• Connect Child and Family Services
• Gunedoo Service
• Lower Mountains Family Support
• Mountains Community Resource Network
• Mountains Outreach Community Service

The Blue Mountains Consortium is committed to the following approaches to child and family work:

1. Relationship based – Quality relationships are viewed as the primary ‘substance’ through which:
   • Children grow and develop
   • Resilient families are created
   • Parents gain support from other parents and organisations
   • Child and family organisations are able to create holistic and unified systems of support for families.
2. Service integration – Consortium services are committed to working over the long-term towards deeper levels of integration in order to provide a seamless or ‘one stop shop’ system of support to children and families.
3. Ecological approach – Children and their families are viewed as being embedded in larger community and social structures which have a substantive influence on well-being. Part of the ‘work’ therefore of child and family services is to (i) help families connect to their community and (ii) lead the development of child friendly communities.
4. Best practice – The group is committed to strengths-based, family centred and collaborative clinical and community practice.