Family Spirit NSW is a specialised foster care, guardianship, and adoption agency operating across the greater Sydney metropolitan region. Formed as a partnership between CatholicCare Sydney and Marist180, it helps vulnerable children and young people find safe, stable, and nurturing homes.
We support children and young people to stay safely with their families where possible, provide nurturing foster care when needed, and help them transition to independent adulthood. We also support foster carers and deliver adoption services.
Our services include support to help families stay together, foster care (including respite, emergency, kinship, short-term and long-term), guardianship and adoption. We also support young people to transition from care to living independently.
Looking for helpful information about foster care, parenting, adoption, or supporting children and young people? Our resources provide practical guides, expert advice, and useful tools to support prospective carers, current carers, families, and the wider community.
Join our community and help make a difference. Whether you're interested in becoming a foster carer, providing emergency care, or joining our team, there are many ways to get involved.
We help children and young people stay safely in their own homes or if this is not possible, we find a nurturing home for them through foster care and continue to support them through to independent living as young adults.
We also help support carers to provide secure homes for children and offer adoption services to those who are unable to care for their babies or are seeking to grow their family.
Support for Children and Families
Children & Young People
Every child deserves a safe home—a place where they feel secure, sheltered and protected.
When circumstances are too difficult to keep a child at home, we are committed to continuing to support birth families and facilitate their ongoing role in their child’s life.
