Policy and practice paper Jun 2008
Housing stress and the mental health and wellbeing of families
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Explores the relationship between housing affordability, housing stress, and mental health and wellbeing.
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Policy and practice paper Jun 2008
Explores the relationship between housing affordability, housing stress, and mental health and wellbeing.
Submission Sep 2008
A preliminary analysis of data from the Regional and Rural Families Survey.
Submission Feb 2009
Health, welfare, education and security of children in regional and remote Indigenous communities.
Family Matters article Jun 2009
Family Matters opinion piece on sole-parent families
Practice guide Sep 2009
This Wrap considers the needs of victim/survivors of sexual assault who are also experiencing homelessness
Family Matters article May 2010
The first set of articles in this edition of Family Matters considers aspects of place, including neighbourhood effects and the measurement of locational disadvantage - key issues in informing public policy - and discussion of place-based programs designed to ameliorate the impacts of disadvantage on children, families and communities.
Family Matters article May 2010
Family Matters article on neighbourhood influence's on children's emotional and behavioural problems
Family Matters article May 2010
Drawing on two examples, namely the impact of scale and population mobility, this paper argues there is a need to ensure that the approaches used to identify and track changes in areas of concentrated disadvantage are very closely aligned to any potential policy response.
Family Matters article May 2010
This paper considers place-based approaches to support families and facilitate the development of their children, by summarising the findings from the evaluation of Communities for Children (CfC), an initiative under the Australian Government’s Stronger Familles and Communities Strategy (SFCS).
Family Matters article May 2010
This article is a literature review of research regarding the responses of individuals, families and communities to catastrophic events.