Community-based social services
Case study
Implementing climate change adaptation in the Dame Pattie Menzies Centre
Five CSOs and PCPs participated in the tools-testing phase of the project. The Dame Pattie Menzies Centre was one of the five organisations which aimed to gain a better understanding of how identified climate change adaptation needs can best be met using existing decision-support tools.
Strategy
Working to turn off the tap: the role of frontline services in addressing homelessness
This toolkit is one of the outputs from a study undertaken by the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Adelaide, for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, into the role of frontline services in addressing homelessness. For the purposes of this project, frontline services are considered...
Report
Co-design community engagement prototype: outcomes report
The Australian Government Department of Human Services (the department) partnered with the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) to test a way of engaging and collaborating with the community and stakeholders.
Report
Developing an effective homelessness workforce
This research project was funded by the Australian Government under the 2009-13 National Homelessness Research Agenda. The Homelessness White Paper, The Road Home, identified workforce development as a key national priority in policy responses to homelessness. Despite the strong policy interest in the specialist homelessness workforce, little robust data on workforce characteristics and dynamics was...
Evaluation
Evaluation of the demonstration day respite pilot in residential aged care facilities initiative: report of client pathway analysis
A Client Pathway Survey was conducted by the Australian Institute of Social Research (AISR) for the Department of Health and Ageing as a supplement to AISR's comprehensive evaluation of the Demonstration Sites for Day Respite in Residential Aged Care Facilities (DDR) initiative.