• 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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Endnotes

1. CfC is the largest component of the SFCS evaluation 2004–2008 and many sections of this report only refer to CfC. Where CfC, ItG and LA are referred to collectively, it will state ‘SFCS’ or SFCS 2004–2009. In other sections of the report, only CfC or CfC and ItG are discussed because of the limited data available from LA. For a full description of the SFCS 2004–2009 model, see Appendix A.
2. SFIA is a longitudinal study of families and children in CfC sites, which was undertaken as a part of the SFCS national evaluation (see Edwards et al. forthcoming).
3. An FP model is a CfC funding model, whereby a non-government organisation (or FP) is engaged to manage and distribute funds within each particular site in an effort to foster service coordination and cooperation.
4. Self-completed progress report data collected by FaHCSIA were insufficient to determine the proportion of Indigenous families and children engaged in SFCS 2004–2009 initiatives.
5. Families may be reluctant to access services for a number of reasons, and may be distrustful or fearful of service providers, or ashamed to ask for help.
6. In 2005, FaCS reported that cultural identity was poorly or insufficiently dealt with in many child care settings, and service providers in general were unlikely to include cultural identity as a measure for quality service delivery.
7. In 2007, FaCSIA suggested the latter. It recommended that all people invited to child services receive police clearances and Working With Children Checks. But this could cause problems in some communities, because the attendance of Indigenous Elders may be limited because of past criminal records, even if these were minor offences (FaCSIA 2007b).
8. The use of food as an incentive was common in most CfC sites (see also Cortis et al. forthcoming).
9. A small number of FaHCSIA funded programs, such as the Family Violence Regional Activities Program and the Family Violence Partnership Program, do provide funding for car leasing and capital purchases, but the practice is not widespread.
10. The service provider also helped families obtain other forms of identification to decrease their isolation and further improve their access to services. Children cannot enrol in school without birth certificates; the respondent had helped families obtain birth certificates for unregistered children.
11. The NTER was presented as a response to the Little Children are Sacred report from the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse 2007).
12. The NTER commenced before the case studies were undertaken. The change of government occurred shortly after the CfC interview component took place, and before telephone consultations began, so the results span the reference period before and after the federal election.
13. Indigenous service providers were defined in the telephone consultation sample, to include both Indigenous-specific services and mainstream services with Indigenous clients. They included: mainstream services with high proportions of Indigenous clients; services specifically for Indigenous families run by Indigenous community-controlled organisations; and services specifically for Indigenous families run by mainstream organisations.

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