Annual Report 2010 - Berry Street

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1 A message from the President and CEO In our 133rd year, Berry Street continued to grow, to respond to new challenges and to make a significant contribution to the lives of thousands of Victorian children, young people and families. The core of our work will always be to do what we can and need to do, to ensure all children have a good childhood, growing up feeling safe, nurtured and with hope for the future (our Vision). Building on the work of Take Two, our therapeutic service, we are developing much greater understanding of the traumatic impact of violence, abuse and neglect and how we can help children and young people to heal. But we want to do more. We intend to strengthen our public policy advocacy to help create better systems and policies to both prevent abuse and neglect, and ensure better responses. Our new Strategic Directions has four key priorities: 1. Growing our independent income – to enable us to pilot new programs, evaluate what we’re doing and develop the evidence and tools for effective advocacy. 2. A focus on service innovation – piloting new programs where there are gaps and building on our existing work. 3. A strong public policy agenda based on five themes:- childhood belongs to children; safety is not enough; no place for violence; fairness and equity for families; and two ways together – supporting Aboriginal families. 4. Developing a platform to build and share knowledge about child trauma – to help prevent child abuse and neglect and ensure that children get the right help to recover. We are proud of everything we have been able to achieve together so far and thank everyone – our Board, staff, carers, volunteers and supporters – for their contribution and willingness to work with us. We are also excited about this next chapter of the ‘Berry Street Story’. No doubt it will be an interesting ride, and we look forward to sharing it with you. Laurinda Gardner President Sandie de Wolf, AM Chief Executive Officer
A snapshot of Mildura Where we are working Horsham Wangaratta Shepparton Bendigo Seymour Alexandra Warrnambool Ballarat Watsonia Flemington Geelong Ringwood Eaglemont Richmond Clayton Noble park Warragul Trafalgar Morwell Leongatha Gross income by funding source 2009-2010 Gross income by service type 2009-2010 2 State Government 77% Independent 16% Federal Government 7% Residential Care 29% Therapeutic Care 16% Victorian Bushfire Case Management 12% Education 9% Youth 8% Central/Admin 7% Foster Care 7% Family 6% Community 4% Disability 1% Other 1% Gross Income $56,200,000 Service Type Central Gippsland Hume North & West South-East Take Two Total Community* 744 1975 2358 1173 6250 Education 262 573 162 134 1131 Family 72 301 2788 3161 Foster & Kinship Care Residential Care 79 182 121 77 459 79 17 52 49 197 Therapeutic 20 434 705 1159 Youth (incl Disability) 282 128 214 149 773 Total 744 2749 3579 4944 409 705 13130 Number of staff at 30/6/10: 781 Number of carer households: 192 Number of volunteers: 572 We operated from: • 21 offices • 23 residential units (and 4 contingency units) • 5 education centres • 8 Lead Tenant properties/other * includes Financial Inclusion programs
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