The Potential Leaders in Local Communities initiative of the Australian Government's Stronger Families and Communities Strategy focused leadership development initiatives on four largely disadvantaged social groups – youth, Indigenous communities, women, and rural and regional communities – to address various social issues. This paper evaluates the outcomes of the initiative. A number of different strategies...

An evaluation of the operation of Job Network in the first three years of the Active Participation Model (APM). It shows the APM increased net employment impacts and commencement rates for Intensive Support job search training and customised assistance. It also saw a reduction in the costs per employment outcome and employment outcomes under the...