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What is a Promising Practice Profile?
Within the human services sector, practice profiles are used to share information about practices and programs that are of interest to others in the field. Practice profiles assist service providers, community members, and policy makers to better understand what practices work, how they work, in what contexts, and with whom.
Research institutions, government departments and non-government organisations are increasingly using practice profiles to share information about current good practice in the field. For instance, the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault located at the Australian Institute of Family Studies provides a collection of ‘Promising Practice Programs & Responses for Sexual Assault’ for stakeholders to browse, in order to highlight examples and enable good practices to be adopted elsewhere.
One of the key objectives of the former Stronger Families and Communities Strategy National Evaluation is to identify “what works” in early intervention, early childhood and community development, in order to facilitate peer learning and information sharing. The Promising Practice Profile provide stakeholders in the early childhood, early intervention and community development sectors with the opportunity to access valuable information about effective practices in different settings. This information should stimulate ideas for adaptation and service improvement, within the community of former Stronger Families and Communities Strategy projects, and in service provision more broadly.
The former SFCS Promising Practice Profiles are presented on the CAFCA website as a series of descriptive cases. Each Promising Practice Profile contains detailed information about the practice and the context in which it was undertaken, including the client group it served. Evaluation material will also be included to highlight how well the practice achieved its intended aims.