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Culture, Connection and Care: The Role of Institutional Justice Capital for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Out-Of-Home CareEnsuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children removed from their families by child protection services remain connected to their kin, Country and culture is a priority to begin to redress the intergenerational trauma and harm caused by colonisation. This article describes the views of staff working in three mainstream out-of-home care organisations, where children are cared for by non-Indigenous foster carers.
Findings of a research study examining the characteristics of service use by a cohort of young people born between 1994-1997 who used four government services.
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Adaption and implementation of Aboriginal child lung health tools for northern Western AustraliaAndré Schultz MBChB, PhD, FRACP Head, BREATH Team Head, BREATH Team Prof André Schultz is the Head, BREATH Team at The Kids Research Institute
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The parent empowerment scale: development and psychometric propertiesParents of trans and gender diverse (herein ‘trans’) children experience additional challenges in their parenting role relative to parents of cisgender children. Understanding and enhancing parents’ empowerment is a promising approach to support both parents and children. We aimed to develop an empowerment scale specific to parents of trans children, grounded in parents’ lived experiences.
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Community identifies priorities for new youth mental health researchEmbrace at The Kids Research Institute Australia has identified the top 10 unexplored infant, child and youth mental health research priorities in consultation with the Western Australian community.
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safeTALK training for young people experiencing homelessness: a community-based trialPenelope Yael Jacinta Strauss Perry Freeman BA, MPH, PhD BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BScs, MPH Research Fellow in Youth Suicide Prevention Head,
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Early onset of otitis media is a strong predictor of subsequent disease in urban Aboriginal infants: Djaalinj Waakinj cohort studyAustralian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children in rural/remote areas suffer high rates of persistent otitis media (OM) from early infancy. We aimed to determine the proportion of Aboriginal infants living in an urban area who have OM and investigate associated risk factors.
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Associations between mental health profiles and later school outcomesThe dual-factor model of mental health proposes that high wellbeing and low distress are necessary to define mental health. This study used latent profile analysis to identify mental health profiles in a sample of 3,587 Australian grade 6 students and explored the association between mental health profiles and school outcomes measured in grades 7 and 9.
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New project offers hope for reductions in Indigenous suicideThe National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership in Mental Health welcomes funding by the Australian Government
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Perth’s Aboriginal babies show first signs of ear disease at just eight weeksThe Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have found close to 40 per cent of Aboriginal babies begin to develop middle ear infections between two and four months of age in a first of its kind study in metropolitan Perth.