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Policing alcohol and illicit drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in metropolitan environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Executive summary: This report presents the results of Australian Institute of Criminology research on issues and challenges of policing alcohol and illicit drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in metropolitan environments.
David Marks, Jason Payne, Tracy Cussen
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Alcohol and Other Drug Vocational Education and Training in Australia: Changes in the Landscape From 2011 to 2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidelines for a repository of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health resources for optometry education

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Optometry
To meet accreditation requirements to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health into optometry curricula, educators would benefit from access to a curated repository of high-quality resources. Since 2023, Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand optometry programmes have been required to teach and assess students’ competency to provide culturally ...
Kate D. Pecar   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous youth: reviewing and extending the evidence and examining its implications for policy and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report contains a synthesis of learnings from in depth case studies with six programs that explicitly aim to promote the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people through art and mural making, caring for ...
Melissa Haswell
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Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Building audiences: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Building Audiences examines the barriers to and the strategies for increasing audiences in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts sector. This research investigates the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of current and potential audiences.
Brian J. Martin   +5 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Aboriginal studies and Torres Strait Islander studies

open access: yes, 2008
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies have not always been seen as important areas of study. It is only recently that these studies have been seen as contemporary and studied within the area of social education.
Price, Kaye
core   +1 more source

Stakeholder perspectives on HPV vaccination uptake among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents via the school immunisation programmes in Queensland: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMJ Open
Introduction Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience inequitable cervical cancer outcomes including higher incidence and mortality rates than other Australian women.
Julia Brotherton   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

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