• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Service provision
• Service coordination
• Indigenous families and children
• Factors facilitating or hindering service provision and outcomes
• Sustainability
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009 model
• Appendix B: SFCS 2004–2009 National Evaluation Indigenous Themed Study Reference Group
• Appendix C: Themed study methodology
• Appendix D: Stronger Families in Australia tables
• Appendix E: Indigenous themed study focus group guide
• Appendix F: Indigenous themed study phone consultation and Indigenous-specific CfC interviews questionnaire
• Appendix G: Interview schedule for CfC fieldwork sites
• List of shortened forms
• Endnotes
• References
• List of tables

Indigenous families and children: coordination and provision of services
Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009

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Appendix E: Indigenous themed study focus group guide

SFCS Indigenous themed study focus group guide, November 2007

Aims

1. Understand the impact of CfC on service provision and coordination in communities (remote and other) with a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
2. Understand the impact of CfC on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families (who live in remote and other) communities.

Background information

Please collect the following background information on the people participating in the focus group:

• role
• organisation
• location (metro, rural/regional, remote)
• geographic areas they support (metro, rural/regional, remote)
• proportion of Indigenous clients (per cent) and proportion of families in their area who are Indigenous (per cent, if known).

Question guide

Service provision
How has CfC changed the number and type of services provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in your area? How has CfC changed the way services are provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in your area (for example, access, content, and so on)?

Service coordination
To what extent do services work together to support Indigenous families in your area? How do they work together?

Prompts: planning (joint, coordinated, common goals), service delivery (referral, joint monitoring, joint case management, shared information or resources), professional development, interagency meetings

What impact has CfC had on the way services work together to support Indigenous families and children? What factors do you think help these services to work well together in delivering services to Indigenous families?

Prompts: respect, understanding, role clarity, leadership, common goal/vision, experience in Indigenous communities (general), history in this Indigenous community, Indigenous staff

What factors do you think obstruct services from working well together?

Prompts: differences between services, different goals/vision, different levels of government, staff problems, geographic distances, resources, territoriality, competitive funding, non-Indigenous staff

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children
What impact do you think CfC has had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children in your area?

Prompts: awareness of importance of children, use of services, parent knowledge and/or skills, child outcomes, increased self-efficacy

What impact do you think CFC has had on the community that is relevant to Indigenous families?

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