This guide presents a framework for understanding early intervention in community-based mental health supports for children and families. It covers the difference between mental health and mental illness, definitions of the main provision levels of early intervention and challenges to providing early intervention supports.

This resource summarises the evidence about the experiences of parents who were adopted as children. It discusses their experiences of parenthood and the impacts of parenthood on their identity, wellbeing and relationships with others. The paper also provides some considerations for practitioners and other professionals working with adult adoptee parents and their families.

This paper describes what good practice looks like in community-based group counselling for building resilience in children and young people. It defines resilience as a dynamic process that draws on personal as well as external resources, and outlines how successful interventions enhance those resources.

This is the final report from the research project 'Identifying Strategies to Better Support Foster, Kinship and Permanent Carers'. This project was undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies and Murawin, an Aboriginal research and evaluation consultancy.

This is the third and final research report for Beyond 18: The Longitudinal study on Leaving Care and describes the key findings from the third wave.