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Mariana Atkins

Strategy

Financial counselling for disaster resilience


Financial counselling is an identified key component of support needed to reduce risks and improve the resilience of communities experiencing natural hazards. This framework informs the financial counselling sector and the broader community on the role of financial counselling in disaster preparedness, response and recovery across Western Australia.
Evaluation

'We can see future possibilities now': an evaluation of Bridging the Gap’s PLAN project


The Parents, Learning, Advancing, Nurturing (PLAN) project was created to provide holistic support option for vulnerable parents to address barriers to wellbeing, employment and financial and emotional stability. This report presents evaluation findings that reveal the strong efficacy of the project in the outcomes it generated among participants, as well as the strength of the...
Evaluation

Understanding the social impact of safeguarding services for children and young people


Safeguarding Services is a suite of support services offered to organisations who deliver services to children and young people. The Centre for Social Impact at the University at the Western Australia was engaged by the Australian Childhood Foundation to examine and document the social impact story of Safeguarding Services. This report outlines the findings.
Evaluation

Mentoring unemployed young adults to dream bigger and break down the steps to reach their goals: process evaluation of the Mentoring 2 Work Project


Youth unemployment is a serious social problem. The impact of this can be severe and long-lasting and can have significant effects on young people’s health and wellbeing. This evaluation demonstrates that the M2W Program was designed and implemented following mentoring best practice guidelines in a way that was young adult-centred, flexible and accommodating of this...
Report

One good relationship can transform a life: the design and implementation of the Mentoring 2 Work Project


This report outlines the Mentoring 2 Work program, and draws on implementation evaluation learnings to describe how it was planned, structured and most effectively delivered.

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