The Time Out House Initiative aims to provide early intervention in a short term (up to three weeks) safe and youth-friendly residential program and three month outreach support for young people whose circumstances have had an impact on their mental health or, if unaddressed, are likely to have an impact. Authors: Sandra Gendera, Karen R...

This paper is an initial step towards building an evidence base on Australian community attitudes to people with disability, on the impact of these attitudes on outcomes for people with disability and on effective policies for improving community attitudes towards them.

This report explores the supports and services available to formal and informal out-of-home carers (foster, grandparent and kinship carers). In conjunction with existing qualitative evidence from carers, it analyses current gaps in support to build an understanding of carers’ needs and priorities and the barriers to undertaking a caring role.

This paper looks at patterns of own-home wealth across the life cycle in Australia and in several North American and Western European countries and finds that Australia is out of step with comparable countries. In the mid-1990s, the Australian elderly had the lowest relative incomes (compared to national averages) across 19 OECD countries. Including housing...

This research project was funded under the National Action Plan to Build on Social Cohesion, Harmony and Security (NAP), a whole-of-government program coordinated by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). The project's aims were achieved by addressing the following research questions: a. What are the main issues relating to marginalisation that concern Muslim families...