About One Future Social Services: Providing Quality Social Services to Support Individuals and Families

Our Story

One Future is a professional assessment, facilitation and consultancy service covering all of New South Wales locally owned and operated Since 2018

One Future is a professional assessment, facilitation and consultancy service covering all of New South Wales. We work with people throughout their life journey to create their own, one future. At the core of our service is the belief that people are experts in their own lives. Our services are designed to capture that knowledge, support people to make decisions and develop goals and outcomes that are right for them.

One Future has a team of qualified, tertiary-trained staff to respond to individual and organisational need. We offer a rapid-response service designed to support organisations in completing urgent assessments or to provide in-home supports, as well as undertaking planned assessments that may be required as part of a person’s journey to receiving appropriate services or supports.

One Future uses an ecological approach to service planning and delivery, meaning that we look holistically at a person within their environment to ensure that any assessment we complete or supports we provide are inclusive of the individual, their immediate networks and supports, the wider community, formal services, culture, history and future.

We pride ourselves in delivering quality services in a timely manner and will respond creatively to individual and organisational need to ensure that people feel supported by our team from the initial contact. With experience in both the child welfare, family and aged care sector, One Future can support people at any stage of life.

Catherine Payne - Managing Director

"This is my Family, we created One Future as we think that every family deserves the chance to live, love, and be together. The formation of our logo was built in resemblance of my family, of triangles as these are the strongest shapes. Strong shapes make strong family relationships and everything we do at One Future is built on Family First values."

History

2018

One Future was founded in February 2018 as a boutique consultancy and assessment service. The founders saw that whilst there were services already working in early intervention, child protection and out of home care, there was a need for a service that could respond quickly to requests for services, but more importantly offer quality assessment services.

2019

One Future hired its first Aboriginal Consultant and started its Cultural Services Department.

One Future approved as a provider through the Casework Support Scheme (CSS) which allows us to offer supervised contact, supervised transport, mentoring and daytime respite for children and young people in out of home care.

2020

Approved provider of Family Group Conferencing. FGC promotes respectful and strength-based engagement in planning to meet what is in the best interests of the child or young person.

2021

Services grew doubling in size. Became the largest service provider of Family Group Conferences for DCJ and OOHC in the Northern Rivers completing over 200 FGCs. 200% Growth in Assessment Services.

2022

6 staff working for One Future including 3 x Aboriginal Assessors and 3 x Senior Consultants. Completed our 600th Assessment for both OOHC and DCJ. Completed over 450 FGC'c

Our Values

We have integrity; We act with honesty and show respect in all of our actions. We do the right thing in a respectful way and role-model this for our families we work with.

We act with courage; We stand up for what we believe in. We strive to make good choices and do the right thing, even when it is difficult or involves taking a risk. We support our families to do the same.

We persevere; We don’t give up. We dedicate time, energy and effort despite the challenges that may arise. We believe that perseverance can lead us to success in life and teach us many life lessons along the way.

We live with purpose; Having purpose guides our decision-making, influences behaviours and offers a sense of direction to our lives. Our purpose is to support families to stay together, be connected, strong and safe.

Services

Assessments

We can offer highly skilled independent assessors to complete Relative Kinship Carer Assessments as well as Relative Kinship Carer reviews.

Facilitation

Inclusive and restorative approach to decision making. It involves family members coming together to make significant decisions and develop a plans.

Cultural Supports

One Future acknowledges and values the importance that connection to culture, family, community and country has in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Training

We deliver a variety of parent education and carer training courses and can build, design and run training to meet an agency's needs.

Servicing all of NSW

We are the largest professional independent assessment service in Northern NSW operating since 2018. We offer our services across the entire state of NSW and interstate when needed.

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Contact Us

Office Contact Details

Email: info@onefuture.com.au

Phone: 02 6678 2181

PO Box 634, Banora Point, 2486

Working Hours

Weekdays: 9am to 4pm

Service Area

One Future is proud to offer its services to all of NSW Through our remote assessment service. We have large coverage of Northern NSW area from Tweed Heads, Byron Bay, Ballina, Lismore, Murwillumbah, Bangalow, Mullumbimby, Lennox, Head, Casino, Grafton, Kingscliff, Yamba, Alstonville, Brunswick Heads, Pottsville, Evans Head, Ocean Shores, Kyogle. Iluka, Maclean, Woolgoolga, Corindi Beach and Coffs Harbour. But we travel on request to any other part of NSW and interstate. We are committed to providing the highest quality assessment and facilitation services to meet your needs. Our team of qualified professionals has extensive experience working with clients from all over New South Wales and we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with providing services in different regions. Whether you're looking for a Independant Kinship care assessor or Independant Foster care assessor or Cultural Supports services or Family Group Conferencing Facilitator. We believe that everyone deserves access to the resources and support they need to thrive, regardless of where they live, and we are committed to delivering services that are responsive, compassionate, and effective.

Our Story

History

Our Values