• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Background research
• Qualitative methodology
• Who is hard-to-reach?
• Reach and engagement: project strategies
• Challenges of engaging hard-to-reach groups
• What additional supports are needed?
• Effects of Communities for Children on hard-to-reach families and children
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Questioning route for project coordinators, project managers and project officers from Local Answers and Invest to Grow projects
• Appendix B: Questions for Communities for Children participants (embedded in broader interview schedule)
• List of shortened forms
• Endnotes
• References
• List of tables

Engaging hard-to-reach families and children

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Appendix A: Questioning route for project coordinators, project managers and project officers from Local Answers and Invest to Grow projects

1. Please describe the Local Answers/Invest to Grow activity you’re involved with?
2. What is your role with respect to Local Answers/Invest to Grow?
3. What is the project seeking to achieve?
4. Which groups in this community is the project seeking to engage?
5. Are there any people you think could be using the service but who may be particularly hard-to-reach? [For example, culturally diverse families, families with a parent or child with a disability, young parents, fathers, non-custodial parents and so on.]
6. What do you think are the main challenges to engaging these hard-to-reach groups?
7. Is there anything that the service is doing (or thinking of doing) to try to engage these groups? What kinds of things? How successful do you think these attempts have been (or will be), and why?
8. What would help your service to better engage these hard-to-reach populations?
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