A review of research on building safe and supportive families and communities for Indigenous children in Australia.
This paper explores the concept of community resilience and outlines recent frameworks and tools developed to understand and measure it. This paper was written to assist effective policy and practice for service providers, practitioners and policy makers working with regional and rural communities vulnerable to natural disasters. Sections include:
An exploration of the concept of community resilience and frameworks and tools developed to understand and measure it.
This paper reviews the research on building safe and supportive families and communities for children in Australia. Based on assessments of 22 research and evaluation reports, it examines the evidence base in the areas of:
The paper synthesises the findings and discusses the implications for future research.
A review of research on building safe and supportive families and communities for children in Australia.
Living in areas of geographic disadvantage can impact on families in many ways. Local services play an important role in supporting these families, yet little is known about how they engage with, and how satisfied they are with, these services.
Investigates issues relating to evaluating whole-of-community initiatives.
This Resource Sheet briefly summarises a number of influential recent approaches to conceptualising and measuring disadvantage.
Provides ideas about how social inclusion can be used to plan and deliver child and family services in ways that enhance opportunities for families.
This NCPC Issues paper examines evidence for the impact of media-based social marketing campaigns.
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.
