From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
This AIFS webinar, produced in partnership with the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN), explores emotional abuse in childhood and the role of parenting support in reducing and preventing child maltreatment.
This evaluation report by Caz McLean evaluates the Creative Art Therapy (CAT) Program by Family Access Network (FAN), which provides therapeutic support to LGBTIQA+ young people and pregnant/parenting young people impacted by family violence and homelessness. The program, funded by the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Family Safety Victoria, aims to decrease wait times for therapeutic support, provide access to LGBTIQA+ lived experience workers, and offer no-cost support to those in financial distress.
The AIFS study investigates the uptake of two government payments for working parents taking leave to care for a newborn or adopted child, revealing gaps in understanding and factors influencing varied usage levels.
This report describes the core care conditions that young children, their parents / caregivers and their families need to flourish. Core care conditions are the key features of the social and physical environments in which young children and their families live that are important for optimal development and functioning.
This resource summarises the evidence about the effectiveness of parent-focused interventions designed to support children with intellectual disability and autistic children who display behaviours of concern.
The purpose of this research was to understand the experience of adoptive parents (in Canada) who self-report symptoms of secondary trauma in relation to their child’s symptoms of developmental trauma.
This short article by AIFS summarise the findings of a systematic review on peer support for parents of children with complex needs by Sartore and colleagues, 2021. It provides insights into parent experiences of peer support from Australian qualitative research. The article also suggests considerations for practitioners who provide or recommend peer support.
This article, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, investigates the funding awarded by Australian government research agencies for research focused on parenting interventions. The article focused on the period from 2011 to 2020. Results are detailed in the report.
This article, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, investigates the relative amount of funded awarded by Australian government research agencies to research focused on parenting interventions. The article found that in the period from 2011 to 2020, only 0.25 per cent of the total research budget allocated by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) was allocated to parenting intervention research. This low funding commitment is out of step with the high positive impacts of improved parenting for children.
