Short article Oct 2020
Early intervention strategies to prevent youth homelessness
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This article explores how early interventions operate to prevent youth homelessness and outlines the emerging evidence for what works.
Short article Oct 2020
This article explores how early interventions operate to prevent youth homelessness and outlines the emerging evidence for what works.
Submission May 2023
This submission outlines some of the influences on child development, highlighting other research by AIFS into early childhood education and care.
Short article Jul 2022
This short article describes the evidence on and impacts of discipline and behaviour management strategies for children.
Webinar Oct 2023
This webinar will explore how supervision can improve practitioners’ ability to support children and implement child-aware practices.
Short article Jul 2019
This short article discusses how the risk of elder abuse may be heightened in rural and remote communities and proposes some ways to address this.
Research programs
The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health aims to build workforce capacity to better support children at risk of mental health conditions.
Short article Jul 2016
How many children are in the child protection system? How can we improve the system's response to these children and their families?
Practice guide May 2018
The focus of this resource is emotional dysregulation; which may put a child at increased risk of social and emotional difficulties over time.
Practice guide Aug 2015
A snapshot of empowerment evaluation, a model that aims to create a sense of ownership to ensure program outcomes are beneficial for participants
Short article Feb 2023
This short article discusses supported decision making for children with disability and the evidence about using this approach for practice.