Family Matters article Sep 2010
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Policy and practice paper Sep 2010
Family violence: Towards a holistic approach to screening and risk assessment in family support services
A review of the current research and literature specific to family violence screening and risk assessment.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Picking up the pieces
This article is a literature review of research regarding the responses of individuals, families and communities to catastrophic events.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Exploring the promises and possibilities for children's participation in Family Relationship Centres
This paper reports some key findings from a recent study that explored how children’s participation is understood and facilitated in one Family Relationship Centre (FRC).
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Family Matters article May 2010
The national evaluation of the Communities for Children initiative
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).
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Family Matters article May 2010
Placed-based approaches to addressing disadvantage
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.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Neighbourhood influences on young children's emotional and behavioural problems
Family Matters article on neighbourhood influence's on children's emotional and behavioural problems
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Family Matters article May 2010
Family and place
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.
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Policy and practice paper Mar 2010
What works with adolescents? Family connections and involvement in interventions for adolescent problem behaviours
Examines the literature regarding adolescent-parent relationships, and the evidence for family involvement in interventions to address problems.
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Research report Mar 2010
An exploration of the timing and nature of parental time with 4-5 year olds using Australian children's time use data
Looks at data from over 5,000 time use diaries of 4-5 year old children collected in the first wave (2004) of the Growing Up in Australia study