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What is neuroaffirming practice and how can it help young people in out-of-home care?

adolescent violence, Neurodivergence
2024

An interview with Therapeutic Specialist Jessica Wright, from Australian Childhood Foundation, who is a strong advocate for neuroaffirming practice, having seen many children in out-of-home care who struggle with trauma-based responses alongside neurodivergent traits.

Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse: A Scoping Review

adolescent violence
2024

This scoping review explores the characteristics of parents, carers, children, and young people in cases of CPVA, the characteristics of CPVA, and barriers to and facilitators of help-seeking in cases of CPVA.

What is pathological demand avoidance and how is it different to ‘acting out’?

adolescent violence, Neurodivergence

Article published in The Conversation, April 29, 2024

Easy steps to using evidence: Children Australia

Slide deck by Children Australia from the OPEN Forum: Evidence everywhere, everyday, everyone.

OPEN Quick Guide: Evaluate – Are you making a difference? How do you know?

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Evaluate provides an overview of the Evaluate process across the Outcomes Journey. This Quick Guide will help you get started with analysing your data, identify and test your findings and prepare your evaluation report to meet the needs of your key audiences.

OPEN Quick Guide: Design Step 2 – Design your outcome measurement approach

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Step 2: Design your outcome measurement approach.

OPEN Quick Guide: Design Step 1 – Design your program and its outcomes

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Design your program and outcomes provides an overview of the design stage of the Outcomes Journey. Step1: Design your program, objectives and theory of change.

OPEN Quick Guide: Identify

identify
2024

OPEN Quick Guide: Identify and understand the issues or need: provides an overview of the Identify stage of the Outcomes Journey. At the end of working through this QUICK Guide you will understand how to use different forms of evidence to better identify and understand the needs, issue, or gap and its causes to inform decisions about the service response.

OPEN Quick Guide: Implement

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OPEN Quick Guide: Implement provides an overview of the Implement Stage of the Outcomes Journey. At the end of working through this Quick Guide you will understand the importance of implementation, with early planning and ongoing review of your progress and learnings. You will understand key factors and steps which underpin implementation success.

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