Your Voice - Children's Out of Home Care Advocacy Service

Your Voice - Children's Out of Home Care Advocacy Service (Your Voice) is a free, independent legal service for young people in out of home care. We are committed to listening to you and helping you find solutions to problems you are facing. We are committed to ensuring that you are at the centre of decisions that are being made about you. We will work with you to help you understand your rights and advocate for your needs. We have lawyers and a wellbeing team which includes an Aboriginal Field Officer. We are independent and separate from Department of Communities Justice (DCJ). 

We can help children and young people in out of home care, up to the age of 18.  

You can talk to us about what is going on for you. We can explore with you how we might be able to assist. Some of the things we can help with include:

 • arrangements for spending time with family including siblings and kin

• planning for when you turn 18 or leave care

• problems in your accommodation or placement

• making and/or following up with complaints

• issues with school

• connecting with cultural identity, community and country

• discussing choices which are available to you

• helping you understand your entitlements, including Centrelink and the NDIS, and

• supporting you if you are a young parent. 

You can contact us yourself or ask your caseworker to make a referral to our team. Call us on (02) 9068 1789 or email us at YourVoiceAdvocacyService@legalaid.nsw.gov.au.