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Family Based Care
Diversity, complexity and change in children’s households
Jennifer Baxter
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Contexts of Disadvantage
Occasional Paper No. 53
Diana Warren and Ben Edwards
Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence Response
House of Representatives Select Committee on
Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
At risk but not antisocial: changes from childhood to adolescence.
Family Matters No. 68: 2004
The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents
Report on the Second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 2015
Grandparents and child care in Australia
Report no. 3: Grandparents and child care in Australia
Children’s social-emotional wellbeing:
Pilar Rioseco, Diana Warren and Galina Daraganova
The role of parenting, parents’
mental health and health behaviours
Children and young people in separated families: Family law system experiences and needs
Rachel Carson, Edward Dunstan, Jessie Dunstan and Dinika Roopani
Intensive Family Support
Factors influencing therapy use following a disclosure of child sexual abuse
CFCA PAPER NO. 59
James Herbert
Child Family Community Australia | information exchange
Good practice in delivering and evaluating interventions for young people with harmful sexual behaviours
RESEARCH REPORT
ISSUE 18 | JUNE 2020
Antonia Quadara, Wendy O’Brien, Olivia Ball, Will Douglas, Linna Vu
Rates of therapy use following a disclosure of child sexual abuse
CFCA PAPER NO. 58
James Herbert
Child Family Community Australia | information exchange
Principles of Trauma-informed approaches to child sexual abuse: A discussion paper
Dr Antonia Quadara and Cathryn Hunter
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Capturing practice knowledge from the Royal Commission support model Final Report
Report for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child
Sexual Abuse
December 2017
Pathways to support services for victim/survivors of child sexual abuse and their families
Report for the Royal Commission into Institutional. Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Antonia Quadara, Mary Stathopoulos, Rachel Carson, Serpil Bilgic, Rae Kaspiew, Helena Romaniuk, Briony Horsfall and Jessie Dunstan
December 2017
Age of consent laws in Australia
CFCA Resource sheet — May 2021
Disability
NDS and NDIS Outcomes Frameworks Consultation
Frameworks Consultation
Submission from the Australian Institute of Family Studies
Best practice with Children and Families
The Australian Temperament Project: The first 30 years
Edited by Suzanne Vassallo and Ann Sanson
The best start: Supporting happy, healthy childhoods
2010
Early childhood interventions – Research report – Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
A report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services
Sarah Wise, Lisa da Silva, Elizabeth Webster and Ann Sanson
Residential Care
Diversity, complexity and change in children’s households
Jennifer Baxter
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Contexts of Disadvantage
Occasional Paper No. 53
Diana Warren and Ben Edwards
Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence Response
House of Representatives Select Committee on
Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
Child and Family Focus SA (CAFFSA) amplifies the voices of children, young people, and families involved in the family support and child protection sectors. We support and represent the not-for-profit organisations dedicated to protecting and nurturing children, young people, families and caregivers in our community.
Child and Family Focus SA
C/- 45 Wakefield St, Adelaide 5000
0473 617 782
‘Reconciliation’ Artwork by Kobe and Hamish Collins Commissioned by CAFFSA 2024.
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- Child Abuse Report Line (CARL) – 131 478
- DCP Central Complaints Unit – 1800 003 305
- Crisis Care – 13 16 11
- Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People – 1800 275 664
- Domestic Violence Crisis Line – 1800 800 098
- Mental Health Triage – 13 14 65
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Child and Family Focus SA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, the Kaurna and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded and this was and always will be Aboriginal land.
We appreciate and celebrate diversity in all its forms. We believe diversity of all kinds makes our teams, services, organisations and communities stronger and more effective.