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Karen Fisher

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Evaluation of the Integrated Service Project for clients with challenging behaviour

The Integrated Services Project for Clients with Challenging Behaviour (ISP) aims to decrease the adverse impact of challenging behaviour on clients, the community, and the service system

Attendant care program direct funding pilot evaluation

This evaluation compares three Attendant Care Program funding options, which differ in who employs the attendant carers, who receives the funding from DADHC and who is responsible for management and reporting

Family resilience where families have a child (0-8 years) with disability: final report

Using the findings from the primary data collection with families and stakeholders, this report develops the understanding of resilience in these families

Evaluation of the integrated rehabilitation and recovery care program (IRRCP), work plan

This plan outlines the methodology for the evaluation of the Integrated Rehabilitation and Recovery Care Project (IRRCP)

Effectiveness of supported living in relation to shared accommodation

The Disability Policy and Research Working Group has commissioned the University of NSW Consortium (Social Policy Research Centre, Disability Studies and Research Institute and City Futures) to research the effectiveness of supported living in relation to shared accommodation to improve service delivery to people with disabilities

Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative – report II: final

Kristy Muir, Ann Dadich, David Abelló, Michael Bleasdale, Alan Morris and Karen Fisher present the summary findings of the second phase of a longitudinal evaluation of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative Stage One from May to October 2005

The link between children's services and child protection

Research suggests that access to children's services may be an important factor in preventing young children at risk of harm from moving further into the welfare system

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)
16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
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