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Planning, implementation and effectiveness in Indigenous health reform [PDF]

The Planning, Implementation and Effectiveness in Indigenous Health Reform (PIE) project, funded by the Lowitja Institute and the Australian Research Council, carried out by the University of Melbourne, arose from concerns by Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Camille La Brooy, Hana Sabanovic, Lawrence Brown, Margaret Kelaher, Mark Lock, Shahadat Uddin   +5 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Studi Kualitatif Pelayanan Kesehatan untuk Kelompok Adat Terpencil (Kat) di Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The Government has some intentions to increase the social welfare of Remote Indigenous Communities. Firstly, prevented the disintegration of social vulnerability Secondly, protected from economic and social exploitation.
Ariningrum, R. (Ratih), Sukoco, N. E. (Noor)   +1 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison, Jacqui Theobald, Kirsty Forsdike, Ingrid Wilson, Elena Wilson, Leesa Hooker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty, Jessica Hill, Jennifer Smith‐Merry   +2 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
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Engaging Indigenous students through school-based health education [PDF]

This resource sheet focuses on the delivery of school-based health education for Indigenous students in Australian schools and the effective strategies that support positive health outcomes for Indigenous ...
Louise McCuaig
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Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation in New South Wales: A Mixed‐Method Survey Exploring Workforce Capacities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci, Hannah Wilkinson, Susan Heward‐Belle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a culturally enhanced caregiver-facilitated language nutrition intervention “+Language is Medicine” to address developmental delay in Diné (Navajo) toddlers

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionDevelopmental Delay (DD) is highly common in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN; Indigenous) toddlers and leads to high numbers of AI/AN children who eventually need special education services.
Taylor Billey, Elizabeth Kushman, Jessica Meese, Lisa Martin, Lisa Jim, Martha A. Austin-Garrison, Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank   +6 more
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