Practitioners can use several tools to bring the young person into the decision-making process and help them to actively participate in matters that directly affect their lives. These will help to ensure the engagement with the young person is meaningful and age-appropriate and will elicit the information needed.
These tools can help you to implement the vision of the Strengthening families Protecting children Framework for Practice—that Queensland children and young people are cared for, protected, safe and able to reach their full potential.

The Future House
The Future House tool can assist practitioners in finding out what young people think needs to be happening in their life for them to be safe and well in the future, in relation to the identified worries.
Eliciting the young person’s goals is a necessary first step in working with them and their carer to develop a joint vision of what future safety, belonging and wellbeing will look like, and of the specific day-to-day behaviours and actions that can achieve this.
This tool is beneficial for future planning with a young person who is transitioning to adulthood and is actively thinking about their future. The tool is also great to use with young people who may not know what their future holds and need some help exploring this to help ease any overwhelming and anxious feelings transitioning to adulthood can bring about.

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