• 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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Endnotes

1. See Flaxman, Muir and Oprea (2009) for further discussion about the impact of SFCS 2004–2009 programs on service provision and coordination in communities with high proportions of Indigenous children and on the lives of Indigenous children and families.
2. These categories were identified with respect to ‘On Track’, a preventative, crime reduction program involving children aged 4 to 12 years and their families in the United Kingdom. However, the categories can equally be applied to other social service contexts.
3. See Flaxman, Muir and Oprea (2009) for further discussion about the impact of SFCS 2004–2009 programs on service provision and coordination in communities with high proportions of Indigenous children, and on the lives of Indigenous children and families.
4. See the Engaging fathers in child and family services: participation, perceptions and good practice report (Berlyn, Wise & Soriano 2008) for a fuller description of service providers’ attempts to engage men.
5. This strategy requires some sensitivity. For example, in some Indigenous communities there can be opposing ‘factions’ which would make engaging with services uncomfortable for some families. Similarly some culturally and linguistically diverse communities consist of members from different sides in civil conflicts. In addition, issues such as confidentiality and gender must be taken into account.
6. The ‘balanced panel’ refers to those who remained in the sample for all three waves of the SFIA study.

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