Practice guide Mar 2024
Supporting fathers’ mental health in the perinatal period
This practice guide developed with Emerging Minds looks into supporting fathers’ mental health in the perinatal period.
Practice guide Mar 2024
This practice guide developed with Emerging Minds looks into supporting fathers’ mental health in the perinatal period.
Practice guide Feb 2024
This resource developed with Emerging Minds explores the research evidence on how fathers’ involvement can influence their children’s mental health. Specifically, the resource explores the effects of fathers positively engaging with and caring for their children. It also provides insights into how practitioners and services can support fathers to engage positively with their children.
Practice guide Feb 2024
This resource developed with Emerging Minds outlines how fathers can influence their child’s mental health through play. It describes various types of child–father play and their association with child mental health. The article also provides considerations for practitioners who work with fathers and other caregivers to support positive child development and mental health through encouraging child–father play.
Submission Nov 2023
This is AIFS submission to the Inquiry into the provisions of the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (More Support for Working Families) Bill 2023. AIFS has a long history in undertaking research on the leave-taking and employment of new parents, reporting on parental employment trends, and has ongoing involvement in the International Network on Leave Policies and Research.3 We recognise the importance of a paid parental leave scheme that provides families with options for taking time out of employment to nurture infants and young children, while maintaining a longer-term connection to employment.
Practice guide Nov 2023
The resource provides basic information and practical tips to help you design and implement simple survey questionnaires for your program evaluation activities.
Practice guide Nov 2023
This practice guide is for people working in child and family support services who have limited experience or training in using surveys.
Practice guide Jun 2023
This practice guide describes technology-facilitated coercive control and synthesises the evidence on how to support clients experiencing it.
Practice guide May 2023
This guide outlines the reasons to involve children in program evaluation and includes some practical considerations and approaches to collecting data from children.
Submission Jan 2023
AIFS submission to the Inquiry into the Provisions of the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Bill 2022.
Practice guide Sep 2021
This resource explains what theory of change is, why to develop one and how it can be used for program planning and evaluation.