CFECFW, Author at Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

Peak bodies unite in call to empower Aboriginal organisations

News / Aboriginal Children's Forum, ACCOs, Advocacy, Media Releases, VACYP

6 December 2016 Victoria’s peak Aboriginal health, child and family services bodies have joined together in a call to further empower Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations (ACCOs) by prioritising the needs of Aboriginal children in state care. Minister for Families and Children Jenny Mikakos has led reforms in the sector through significant ACCO funding support. Victorian […]

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Book launch: Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

News / Book, Children’s rights, Foster Care, Foster care International, kinship care, leaving care, policy, Practice, Research, young people

Last Friday, 2nd December, the Centre hosted the launch of Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice the new book from Philip Mendes. This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers

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