Family Support Services with SWFS

Our Family Intervention, Support & Assessment Service provides intensive, home-based support designed to help families achieve optimal outcomes during Family Court care proceedings. 

Over a structured 12-week period, a dedicated team led by a parent-assess-trained practitioner works directly within the family home, offering practical, real-life assistance while gaining an authentic understanding of daily routines, strengths, and challenges. 

This immersive approach fosters long-term engagement with professionals, enhances the natural support networks surrounding families, and leads to a meaningful assessment that aids courts and practitioners in making informed decisions. By operating in the real world rather than in a residential or short-session community setting, we create an environment conducive to genuine change and clearer insight into a family’s capacity to care safely. 

We focus on the future. 

At the core of our service is hands-on support and coaching—an alternative to traditional community-based parenting assessments that typically provide only limited hours of assessment each week. Our model allows families to remain together while receiving consistent guidance, structure, and encouragement from a dedicated team committed to their success. 

While the cost of this intensive program may initially seem significant, it is far more favorable when compared to the combined expenses of supervised contact, multiple parenting assessments, and foster care placements. More importantly, it offers something those individual services cannot: a single, cohesive family intervention that supports families in the long term and strengthens their ongoing engagement with professionals. 

By investing early in a comprehensive home-based approach, local authorities can reduce both immediate and future costs while giving families the best possible chance to stay safely together.