We celebrate creating impact and reimagining futures

Annual Report 2021-22: Creating impact, reimagining futures

Berry Street is pleased to release our 2021/22 Annual Report – a celebration of our continuing work to create impact and reimagine futures for the children, young people and families we work with.

Our new annual report highlights some of our evidence-based, trauma-informed programs and the deep impact they’re having. These are programs that focus on healing trauma, addressing family violence, providing safe homes, trauma-informed education and proactive care for families and communities. They include Multisystemic Therapy, Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), Tuning into Kids® and Tuning into Teens™, Teaching Family Model, Take Two and the Berry Street School.

Our broad range of services and programs have had positive impacts for the children, families and young people we work with, including:

• improved family relations and school attendance
• substance use reduction
• improved ability for parents to respond to their own and their children’s emotions
• reductions in children’s symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and challenging behaviours
• stabilised and improved mental health
• young people successfully returning home from residential care.

This year’s report is also a celebration of our unique culture here at Berry Street where we have a genuine commitment to learning from the past and being guided by voices of lived experience, as well as a daily enactment of our values of courage, integrity, respect, accountability and working together.

To all our staff, partners and supporters – thank you for your enduring efforts to deliver a reimagined future for children, young people and families.

We invite you to download our 2021-22 Annual Report to read about how:

• our evidence-based services are delivering a deep impact (from page 12);
• we are continuing to reflect on and celebrate our reconciliation journey (page 16);
• Y-Change is supporting children and young people to lead change in their own right (page 17);
• the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) positively impacted Malak Primary School (page 18).