Briefing paper
Child and family hubs: an important ‘front door’ for equitable support for families across Australia
In this paper, the authors explore what is meant by a child and family hub, and identify core components that underpin the delivery of these hubs that have emerged from Australian and international research.
Journal article
Do Australian policies enable a primary health care system to identify family adversity and subsequently support these families - a scoping study
This scoping study reviewed 188 policies related to family adversity in Australia to determine if these policies both support a primary health care system that identifies family adversity such as childhood maltreatment, or parental mental illness and other household dysfunction, and are subsequently able to support these families.
Journal article
Integrated Child and Family Hub models for detecting and responding to family adversity
Integrated community healthcare Hubs may offer a ‘one stop shop’ for service users with complex health and social needs, and more efficiently use service resources. Various policy imperatives exist to implement Hub models of care, however, there is a dearth of research specifically evaluating Hubs targeted at families experiencing adversity.