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Review of Legal Aid Outreach Legal Services Stage 2 report: Evolving best practice in outreach, insights from experience

Resources November,2013

Authors: Forell, Suzie, , Ramsey, Stephanie,
Publishers: Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales

This is a review of Legal Aid NSW’s outreach services. The report draws upon the experiences of practitioners in providing outreach legal services, particularly the challenges that they have faced […]

Indigenous Australians, mental and cognitive impairment and the criminal justice system

Resources Nov,2013

Authors: MacGillivray, Peta, Baldry, Eileen
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

Since 2011 the Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorder and Cognitive Disability (IAMHDCH) Project, based at the University of New South Wales, has been investigating the life course pathways of […]

Mentoring programs for Indigenous youth at risk

Resources Sept,2013

Authors: Ware, Vicki-Ann
Publishers: Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Research has shown that mentoring can have powerful and lasting positive impacts on the behavioural, academic and vocational outcomes of at-risk youth. This resource sheet examines the evidence on the […]

Programs to improve interpersonal safety in Indigenous communities: evidence and issues

Resources July,2013

Authors: Day, Andrew, Francisco, Ashlen, Jones, Robin
Publishers: Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

There is now a substantial amount of published literature describing the range of programs and interventions that have been implemented in an attempt to improve aspects of community safety. Only […]

Thematic list of projects using linked data relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Resources July,2013

Authors: Scott, Brendan, Dugbaza, Tetteh
Publishers: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

This report contains an alphabetical listing and description of past (published since 1991), current and planned data linkage studies relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The publication provides […]

Our children, our dreaming: a call for a more just approach for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families

Resources Jun,2013

Authors: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
Publishers: Healing Foundation, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak Ltd, Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

Despite acknowledgement of the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in statutory child protection services across Australia and understanding of the impact or broader social and […]

Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety committee activities : inquiry into issues surrounding cyber-safety for indigenous Australians

Resources June,2013

Authors: Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety
Publishers: Commonwealth of Australia

On 20 March 2013 the Committee adopted an inquiry into the issues surrounding cyber-safety for Indigenous Australians. This inquiry followed the Committee’s previous inquiries into Cyber-Safety and the Young and […]

Report on consultations to inform the development of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples drug strategy 2013-2018

Resources June,2013

Authors: Australian National Council on Drugs, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee
Publishers: National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC)

The Department of Health and Ageing engaged the National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) to conduct six targeted community consultations to inform the development of the National Aboriginal and […]

Youth gangs in a remote Indigenous community: importance of cultural authority and family support

Resources Jun,2013

Authors: Cunningham, Teresa, Australian Institute of Criminology, Ivory, William (Bill), Chenhall, Richard D, McMahon, Rachael, Senior, Kate
Publishers: Australian Institute of Criminology

Wadeye is one of the largest Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Over the past decade, the community has attracted much negative media attention because of the amount of violence […]

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention strategy

Resources May,2013

Authors: Australian Department of Health and Ageing
Publishers: Australian Department of Health and Ageing

The suicide rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the period 2001-2010 were twice that of non-Indigenous Australians (ABS, 2012). The high rates of suicide among Aboriginal and […]