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Emerging Minds: Complex trauma through a trauma-informed lens: Supporting the wellbeing of infants and young children.

This practice paper introduces complex trauma and trauma-informed care, including their importance in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of infants and young children.

Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care: Secondary traumatic stress and staff well-being: understanding compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout in therapeutic care

This guide has been developed to support organisational congruence in the provision of trauma informed therapeutic care and the critical need for a well-supported, capable, and stable staff group to deliver this vision.

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.

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