• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Background
• Methodology
• Communities for Children service outcomes
• Communities for Children sector outcomes: service coordination and collaboration
• Communities for Children outcomes for families, children and communities
• Communities for Children model: strengths and weaknesses
• Local Answers
• Invest to Grow
• What works in early intervention? Cross-strategy findings from Communities for Children, Invest to Grow and Local Answers
• Appendix A: Methodological limitations
• List of shortened forms
• Endnotes
• References
• List of Tables and Boxes

National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009

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References

Berlyn, C, Wise, S & Soriano, G 2008, Engaging fathers in child and family services: participation, perceptions and good practice, Occasional Paper no. 22, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

Cortis, N, Katz, I & Patulny, R forthcoming, Engaging hard-to-reach families and children, Occasional Paper, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

Department of Family and Community Services 2005, Communities for Children service provider guidelines, Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra.

Edwards, B, Wise, S, Gray, M, Hayes, A, Katz, I, Misson, S, Patulny, R & Muir, K 2009, Stronger Families in Australia study: the impact of Communities for Children, Occasional Paper no. 25, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

Flaxman, S, Muir, K & Oprea, I 2009, Indigenous families and children: coordination and provision of services, Occasional Paper no. 23, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.

Soriano, G, Berlyn, C & Wise, S 2008, Stronger Families and Communities Strategy national evaluation: promising practice profiles, AIFS Report, prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Stronger Families and Communities Strategy National Evaluation Consortium 2005, Stronger Families and Communities Strategy national evaluation framework, report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, December.

——2008, Stronger Families and Communities Strategy national evaluation: baseline report on Communities for Children process evaluation, SPRC Report 1/08, report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, November 2007.

Sullivan, J, Gilmore, DS & Foley, S 2002, Collaboration Between Medicaid and Other Agencies—Research to practice: findings from the National Survey of State Systems and Employment for People with Disabilities, Institute for Community Inclusion-Publications, vol. 8, no. 1, December.

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