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Improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal KidsThe Kids created history by surveying 1 in 6 indigenous children across the State and collecting information on just how this generation is travelling.
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WA Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS) Linked Data StudyThis study is a partnership between researchers, the Aboriginal community and government to provide evidence for policy and practice addressing high priority health and wellbeing issues for Aboriginal children and families.
The Healing Kids, Healing Families team strives to understand how trauma and adverse circumstances can impact a child and their family, and how we can help them to recover from these experiences.
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Examining the relationship between maternal mental health-related hospital admissions and childhood developmental vulnerability at school entry in Canada and AustraliaIt is well established that maternal mental illness is associated with an increased risk of poor development for children. However, inconsistencies in findings regarding the nature of the difficulties children experience may be explained by methodological or geographical differences.
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Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: Mental health diagnoses associated with increased riskThis WA data linkage study aims to assess whether maternal mental health problems are associated with worse child development outcomes, children’s safety and...
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Smoking, mental illness and socioeconomic disadvantage: Analysis of the Australian National survey of mental health and WellbeingThere are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation.
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Introducing ‘Young Minds Matter’This article describes the survey, the response rates achieved and the representativeness of the sample for the Young Minds Matter survey
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Psychosocial resilience and vulnerability in Western Australian Aboriginal youthWe review findings from our previous studies which show the application of a person-based resilience framework of analysis in the context of WA aboriginal youth
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.
The Role We are seeking an exceptional professional to join our team as a full-time Program Development Coordinator to drive the formation of an