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What's new in the field of family relationships

This page aims to keep you up-to-date with "what's new" at the Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse and in the field of family relationships.

 

• Australia's Welfare 2009
  18 November 2009
  The ninth biennial welfare report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare now available.
• 10th national mediation conference
  18 November 2009
  The theme of the next conference is New Frontiers; Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Present and Creating the Future. Now calling for abstracts. Adelaide - 7-10 September 2010
• Parents matter: The role of parents in teens’ decisions about sex
  18 November 2009
  Positive parent-teen relationships, high parental awareness and monitoring of whom their children are with, and family dinner routines are all linked to delayed sex among teens, according to a new Child Trends research brief.
• Australian National University workshop: Shared care after separation. Qualities & quantities, History & future
  10 November 2009
  With Dr Jennifer McIntosh and Professor Richard Chisholm on 2 December, Canberra.
• Self-help guide: My ex-partner isn't following the court orders about our children... What can I do? (PDF 501 KB)
  10 November 2009
  This free self-help guide from Legal Aid New South Wales provides information about enforcing a term of the parenting orders, options about what to do where parenting orders have been breached and what to expect if it is alleged that you have breached the parenting orders.
• A social health atlas of Australia (Third Edition) 2008
  6 November 2009
  An interactive mapping and statistics site providing Australian demography and socioeconomic status, health status and risk factors from the University of Adelaide’s Public Health Information Development Unit.
• ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, 2008
  6 November 2009
  This publication presents summary results from the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS).
  
• Community Indicators Victoria (CIV)
  6 November 2009
  A collaborative project hosted by the McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. This site uses local community wellbeing indicators to improve citizen engagement, community planning and policy making.
• Social inclusion and social citizenship -- towards a truly inclusive society
  6 November 2009
  Matthew Thomas, Luke Buckmaster, Parliamentary Library
  This paper examines the concept of social inclusion in order to determine its usefulness as a framework for social policy.
• Australian Social Policy conference, An inclusive society: Practicalities and possibilities
  4 November 2009
  The eleventh conference was held in July 2009. Its proceedings are summarised in the Department of Families, Housing, Communities and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) newsletter, FaHCSIA Research News, n.35, September 2009.
• Insights into the concerns of young Australians
  4 November 2009
  In 2008 Mission Australia conducted its seventh annual National survey of young Australians with over 45,000 young people aged 11-24 years. The findings are in this new publication.
• The Tyranny of distance? Caring in regional and remote Australia
  4 November 2009
  An article and summary by Carers Australia on the recent AIFS report.
• Family Law Seminars - Children's issues in the context of family breakdown
  4 November 2009
  How are children’s cases decided? Wednesday 4 November and three recent case studies – what did the judges decide and why? Tuesday 1 December. Brisbane.
• Council for the Care of Children's website
  4 November 2009
  This South Australian Council's website is a user-friendly resource for information on children and young people's rights and on some of the latest research and policy directions about children and young people.
• How do you know what you do works? A short guide to measuring outcomes and effectiveness in family and parenting work.
  30 October 2009
  This short, downloadable guide, prepared by the UK Family and Parenting Institute, is designed to help individual workers and whole services understand the terms and issues within the act of measuring and how to go about it.
• Gambling - draft report
  30 October 2009
  Released on 21 October by the Productivity Commission, you are invited to examine this report and make written submissions by Friday 18 December.
• An Aboriginal family and community healing program in metropolitan Adelaide: Description and evaluation
  30 October 2009
  This paper describes and evaluates the process, impacts and outcomes of an Aboriginal Family and Community Healing (AFCH) Program based in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia.
• Renovate your relationship: A manual for men
  30 October 2009
  Relationships Australia and MensLine Australia have produced this new booklet, with the aim of getting men to think about the practical side of relationship maintenance and how to do it.
• Working better: Fathers, family and work – contemporary perspectives
  28 October 2009
  This new research summary from the Equality and Human Rights Commission offers insights into how fathers experience and think about work and care in Great Britain today.
• Interrelate family centres ‘Being a dad’ courses
  28 October 2009
  The three-session programs are designed to assists fathers to be better dads, connect with their children, discipline constructively and better manage conflict.
• eFiling of divorce applications now available
  27 October 2009
  Applications for divorce (and certain accompanying documents) can now be electronically filed. Instructions on how to register are available from the Family Law Courts website
• Shared care after separation: Qualities & quantities
  27 October 2009
  A workshop with Dr Jennifer McIntosh and Professor Richard Choisholm, 2 December, Canberra, ANU.
• State of Australia’s young people: A report on the social, economic, health and family lives of young people
  23 October 2009
  Released by the Minister of Youth, Kate Ellis, this report presents a comprehensive picture of how young Australians are faring.
• National online gambling counselling service
  22 October 2009
  On 8 October the Australian, State and Territory Governments launched a new 24-hour online gambling counselling service.
• Working therapeutically with children from post separated families
  21 October 2009
  Uniting Care Institute of Family Practice is offering this 6-day course in November.
• Anglicare Australia's state of the family report
  20 October 2009
  Released on 12 October, focuses on the impact of the global financial crisis on Australian Families.
• Survey on the impact on families of the economic downturn
  20 October 2009
  The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has released the results of this survey.
• Financial measures to support struggling Australians
  19 October 2009
  Low-income earners who have been affected by the global financial crisis can be granted financial support through a $33 million Australian Government investment. Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services and the Brotherhood of St Laurence will be administering the assistance through existing programs.
• The role of spirituality in social and emotional wellbeing initiatives: The Family Wellbeing Program at Yarrabah
  9 October 2009
  This evaluation of the Family Wellbeing program at Yarrabah, an Indigenous community in far north Queensland, explores the role that spirituality plays in social and emotional wellbeing for one group of Indigenous Australians.
• Progress for children: A report card on child protection
  9 October 2009
  Violence and exploitation remain a harsh reality in the lives of many children around the word, according to this report card from UNICEF.
• Assessments of parenting and parenting support need
  7 October 2009
  This UK study looks at how a range of health, education and family practitioners make their assessments of parenting and parenting support need.
• Child inclusive practice forum (PDF  398 KB)
  7 October 2009
  For all those working in the field of family dispute resolution. 27-28 October
• Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) - Evaluation research study
  6 October 2009
  This interim study reports on the UK pilot of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court, whose aim is to improve outcomes for children by offering parents with substance misuse problems better support.
• Time trends in parenting and outcomes for young people
  6 October 2009
  The first in a series of UK briefing papers examining aspects of social change, parenting and adolescent experiences.
• CCCH seminar: Partnerships with parents: Listening and responding to families training (PDF 233 KB)
  5 October 2009
  An introduction to family-centred practice, designed to heighten service providers’ awareness about issues in working with families. In Melbourne on Thursday October 8.
• Indigenous solutions to Indigenous problems (PDF 152 KB)
  5 October 2009
  An Indigenous method of inquiry and strategising for non-Indigenous researchers. Public seminar Wednesday 7th October, Sydney.
• ARACY national conference follow-up
  2 October 2009
  Keynote and Invited speaker, and Panel Session proceedings from the ARACY conference are now available.
• Characteristics, outcomes and meanings of three types of permanent placement - adoption by strangers, adoption by carers and long-term foster care
  2 October 2009
  The research summary for this UK project is now available, with the full report due in 2010.
• Nurturing the hidden resilience of at-risk children and families across cultures and contexts
  30 September 2009
  Two day workshop, 8-9 October, University of Sydney. Dr Michael Ungar presents a culturally sensitive model of intervention that nurtures young people’s ‘hidden resilience’.
• SNAICC 2010 National conference - call for submissions and abstracts
  30 September 2009
  The call for papers for the July 2010 SNAICC conference closes on 30 October 2009.
• The evaluation of Family Relationship Services Australia (PDF 154 KB)
  30 September 2009
  Report commissioned by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and undertaken by Courage Partners.
• Carers and employment
  25 September 2009
  This ABS article focuses on how carers balance employment with their caring role and how this may affect their financial future.
• Work, life and family balance
  25 September 2009
  This ABS article discusses challenges in balancing parents’ work and child-rearing responsibilities, particularly while their children are young.
• Innovative Resources
  22 September 2009
  Innovative Resources, the publishing arm of St Luke’s Anglicare, offers a range of therapeutic, strengths-based tools that can be used by human service professionals across many different roles and cultures. The materials use straightforward language and require no special training.
• Doing better for children
  22 September 2009
  This OECD study compares public spending and policies for children with key indicators of child-wellbeing in OECD countries, including Australia. These include education, health, housing, family incomes and quality of school life.
• Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAR)
  21 September 2009
  The new Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research (AIPAR) at the University of New South Wales was launched on September 18.
• Starting school: Stories from parents of children with a disability
  21 September 2009
  A new DVD resource is now available. To order a copy phone the Early Childhood Intervention Infoline 1300 65 68 65.
• My family is separating – what now?
  18 September 2009
  On 16 September Minister for Human Services, Chris Bowen MP, launched an online support tool developed by the Department of Human Services to assist separated families in navigating their way through the Family Law System.
• Children with a disability
  18 September 2009
  A new online resource for parents of children with a disability is now available from the Raising Children Network.
• SPRC seminar on building and maintaining family resilience in families where a child has a disability (PDF 161 KB)
  16 September 2009
  Dr Kristy Muir presents this seminar on 22 September at the University of NSW.
• New parenting resource for dads
  8 September 2009
  Fathers Matter is a new booklet stressing the importance of fathers and providing tips on how fathers can be involved in their children’s lives.
• This is my home: Belonging, disability and diversity
  2 September 2009
  Key findings from this new report provide future directions for building cultural and linguistic inclusion for people from non-English speaking backgrounds with a disability.
• More marriages and less divorces in 2008: ABS
  2 September 2009
  This ABS snapshot of the past 20 years shows an increase in marriage and a decline in divorce trends.

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