Despite being a critical service that provides immediate food relief and other essential items to those in acute need, emergency relief services are themselves experiencing precarity. To better understand this precarity of and the factors underpinning it, this research was conducted through a study into eight Uniting emergency relief services in Victoria and Tasmania.

Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) introduced psychosocial recovery coaching as a ‘recovery oriented’ support for people with psychosocial disability in responsiveness to challenges in accessing these supports. This paper examines the outcomes of psychosocial recovery coaching and suggests future iterations of NDIS psychosocial supports should align with personal recovery outcomes.

This article reports on the development and testing of a framework for measuring outcomes for the human services sector. The process included action research methods and produced the Community Services Outcomes Tree and a survey measurement tool.

This study reports on the elements of effective evidence centres, with the particular aim of informing the design of the future Disability Employment Centre of Excellence. It identifies five core, overlapping elements of centre design, providing an evidence base to inform decision-making.

This report highlights that transition to work outcomes can be improved for young people with disability when mechanisms are put in place to enhance what is usually available within schools, post-school education, and in the disability employment ecosystem.