Professional Papers
In response to the needs of the community Family Life develops and runs
innovative programs which focus on promoting wellbeing.
This presentation provides a snapshot of Family Lifes
history, values, business model, funding, volunteers and core services.
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National Child Protection Forum
Delivered in June 2006 at the
National Child Protection Forum this presentation discusses a holistic
integrated community model for preventing abuse and promoting wellbeing
and social and economic empowerment.
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Delivered in 2006 at the Social Enterprise Alliance conference in
Atlanta, this presentation discusses both theory and practical techniques
for establishing and measuring the success of a social enterprise.
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The Community Centred Family Support model is emerging to
facilitate change for now and for the future. It is proposed that to be effective,
we must integrate work at all levels of prevention, treatment and
maintenance.
Further, by working with and through the context, we can work for
sustainable safety, healthy development and wellbeing for all children,
and focus additional effort to significantly improve outcomes for the
children most disadvantaged or at risk for abuse and neglect.
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A powerful technique for motivating a man to change his behaviour is to
encourage him to focus on his children.
This presentation provides a discussion of Family Life's broad
range of services for men including Community Education, Counselling,
Specialised Group Work and innovative Outreach strategies.
Father inclusive practice National Forum - University of Newcastle.
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Following a long process of collaboration and discussion with the residents of a disadvantaged public housing estate Family Life now runs an
innovative program which focuses on helping people to feel part of the
community through contribution and participation. Research indicates that this program is bringing about lasting
and sustainable change.
This presentation was made at the Families and Community Services
conference in March 2006.
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2005 - Creating Capable Communities:
From Foundations to Sustainable Solutions
Discusses an innovative 3-year program that indicates positive and lasting
change can be achieved within even the most disadvantaged communities.
Published in Stronger Families Learning Exchange Bulletin no. 7 Spring
2005 pp.34 36.
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This paper was presented at the Australian Association for Infant
Mental Health National Conference July 2005 in Brisbane.
The paper focuses on explanation of the program model, the value of volunteer's
work with families in the program and the research findings to date.
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2004 - Knock out violence
Family Life's Knock Out Violence program is an Anti Bullying and
Youth Leadership program for school students in years 5, 6 and 7. Through
her evaluation of the program, in 2003, Dr Helen McGrath found the
presentations were very successful in many ways. The students related well to the young presenters and the impact
of their presentation message was substantial.
Click here to view Dr McGrath's Knock Out Violence evaluation report.
Presented in November 2002 as part of the Social Policy Series - Government and Human Relations this paper discuss the
central role of a caring community as a place through which we need to work, in order to deliver short term and long term, intergenerational change. The paper includes references and resources for a Community Centred Perspective
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