Evaluation of the NT MOS projects
MOS Plus service scope
Up to Closing the Gap: Northern Territory
MOS Plus provides a suite of therapeutic services addressing trauma from abuse and neglect to children under 18 years of age, and their families in remote Indigenous communities of the NT.
It is an outreach service model (fly or drive in/out) with staff based in Darwin and Alice Springs. Initially services were provided by four discrete outreach staff teams (Top End, Katherine, Barkly and Central Australia). Currently services are provided by two staff teams: Top End/Katherine based in Darwin; and Central Australia/Barkly based in Alice Springs. Outreach staff comprise a mix of Counsellors together with Aboriginal Therapeutic Resource Officers (ATROs).
Services include: the provision of direct therapeutic case work with children and their families; family and community liaison; and education to increase remote community capacity to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect. Services also extend to: the provision of sexual assault forensic medical examinations for children in or near their community; and to professional development on prevention and responses to child abuse and neglect for professionals and para-professionals providing varied services to remote communities - such as health clinic and school staff.1
Footnotes
1 Mobile Outreach Service Plus Referral Guidelines Draft Version 2.0