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How is therapeutic residential care constructed within key policy documents ?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is a mode of delivering out‐of‐home care (OOHC) that can help meet the needs of some of Australia's most vulnerable young people and their families. TRC programmes aim to support young people to develop positive relationship experiences in a safe and stable environment.
Lynne McPherson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent Relational Networks

open access: yes, 2018
This paper is concerned with learning to solve tasks that require a chain of interdependent steps of relational inference, like answering complex questions about the relationships between objects, or solving puzzles where the smaller elements of a ...
Palm, Rasmus Berg   +2 more
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Understanding well‐being and safety for First Nations children and young people in the Riverland—Engaging with metic knowledge via a capability approach

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Aboriginal culture is both a strength and a protective factor for Aboriginal children; yet, we continue to see disparities in education, health and well‐being outcomes. To improve outcomes for Aboriginal children and families, local cultural ways of knowing, being and doing need to be incorporated into policy and practice.
Michelle Jones   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Don't Think I Would've Survived Without Having a Constant Support System’: Independent Living Skills Acquisition During the Transition From Care in Western Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For care‐experienced young people, the preparation for leaving out‐of‐home care (OOHC) is vital in support of post‐OOHC outcomes. This research explores the acquisition of Independent Living Skills (ILS) amongst young people in Western Australia and is based on interviews with care‐experienced young people at two time points: while in OOHC and
Michael Starr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Transition Planning and Support for Young People Who Self‐Place When in Out‐Of‐Home Care: The Perspectives of Young People and Practitioners

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the experiences of young people in Queensland, Australia, under child protection orders who leave approved out‐of‐home care placements (e.g., foster; residential care) to stay in unapproved locations (e.g., sleeping on the streets; staying with friends, family/kin, or strangers).
Jemma Venables   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homelessness and Housing Instability Among Care Leavers in Australia: Exploring Housing Pathways and Best Practice Housing Models

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A significant proportion of young people exiting Out‐of‐Home Care (OOHC) encounter substantial challenges in securing housing, often leading to homelessness within a few months after leaving care. All Australian jurisdictions have now approved extended care programs up to 21 years; however, none of them currently offer these young people ...
Yujie Zhao, Jacinta Waugh
wiley   +1 more source

Numeric Input Relations for Relational Learning with Applications to Community Structure Analysis

open access: yes, 2015
Most work in the area of statistical relational learning (SRL) is focussed on discrete data, even though a few approaches for hybrid SRL models have been proposed that combine numerical and discrete variables.
Jaeger, Manfred, Jiang, Jiuchuan
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Caring Futures: Australian Attitudes About the Desirability of Care Work

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid increasing public and policy attention on the care and support sector, which millions of Australians rely upon for essential services, care workers continue to advocate for better pay and fairer conditions. This article draws on the concepts of recognition, value and social distribution from feminist ethics of care scholarship to explore ...
Laura Davy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting the Recovery of NDIS Participants With Psychosocial Disability: A Narrative Literature Review

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This narrative literature review examines key issues surrounding psychosocial disability support in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It highlights the NDIS's neoliberal approach to support, which has underpinned a lack of clarity around the conceptualisation of psychosocial disability and recovery.
Johnny Choi, Kathy Ellem, John Drayton
wiley   +1 more source

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