10,386 research outputs found
Forest scene, Jim Crow Ranges, Victoria [picture] /
No full textCondition: Some foxing.; Part of collection: Victorian views. Forest scene in Jim Crow Ranges [i.e. Jim Crow Creek region], Victoria with house and fence lower right
Side view of Queen Victoria building [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying documentation.; Part of the Collection of photographs of Sydney by A.G. Foster.; Condition: Silvering.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3071279
Members [?] of the Victoria Park Bowling Club, c. 1926 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Part of the Collection of photographs of Sydney by A.G. Foster.; Condition: Good.; Inscription: "Printed off 19/1/26, no.1"; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24722596
Foster care in context: an evaluation of the foster care communication and recruitment strategy
No full textThis report makes important recommendations to ensure the ongoing efficiency and effectiveness of Victorian approaches to foster care publicity and recruitment. It also makes a significant contribution to the challenge of ensuring that foster care remains a sustainable option for the placement of children who cannot live at home.
Further it makes important recommendations to ensure that recruitment processes also meet the needs of potential foster carers. 
Professional foster care as an alternative to residential care: it makes economic sense
No full textThere is growing concern in the child welfare sector with the quality of care being provided through Residential Care out-of-home care services. In Victoria, the recommended policy direction is to move away from standard Residential Care as much as possible (Auditor-General Victoria, 2014), largely because it is both expensive and largely seen as ineffective, or even harmful to young people.
Experience internationally, however, suggests that placing children who have a high level of need and behaviour issues into home-based care is problematic (see, for example, Child protection Development, 2011). Volunteer foster carers normally lack the training, skills and availability to provide the level of care that is required. Consequently, high-needs children and young people who are in foster care tend to experience a high rate of breakdown of placements. This is particularly problematic because such high turnover of placements is itself a major contributor to behavioural difficulties and longer term attachment problems, creating a self-perpetuating cycle.
The message of this experience is that reliance on residential care can only be phased out (or reduced) as an alternative and viable model is brought into place. This model would need to be sufficiently robust to avoid the difficulties associated with high failure of placements as described above. A number of recent studies have pointed to the introduction of Professional Foster Care as a viable alternative to Residential Care placements.
In this report we describe a Professional Foster Care Model, based on variations of existing models developed both in Australia and internationally. The report will present an analysis of its economic viability as compared to the current system.
We stress that the model presented in this report is developed at a relatively high level. It is not in a form that can be implemented as is. More work would need to take place by experts in the policy and regulatory environment to detail its implementation. The main contribution here is in some estimated costings that show the move to a new model actually makes good sense financially. The costings themselves are based on estimates and approximations due to lack of availability of some information or data. Having said that, the analysis is sufficiently conservative that the underlying message is robust to these approximations.
The costing story is compelling: there are substantial savings to be had by following a model along the lines of what we present here. Any variation on this model throughout the stages of critique and implementation is very unlikely to change that story. We hope that by presenting a robust economic analysis, policymakers can find the courage to take on the journey of transformation, ultimately motivated by the desire for long term improved quality for care for children and young people who are most at risk
walata tyamateetj: a guide to government records about Aboriginal people in Victoria
No full textPreface
A joint guide to government records about Aboriginal people held in Victoria was first published by the National Archives of Australia and Public Record Office Victoria in 1993, during the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. This guide, called My Heart is Breaking, was subsequently reprinted in 1994 and again in 1997 following Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.
The records listings originally compiled by Ian MacFarlane and Myrna Deverall have provided the groundwork for this new publication. Demand continues for a guide that assists both the Koorie community and other researchers to access records from Victorian government agencies that relate to Aboriginal people.
walata tyamateetj includes information about Victoria’s Aboriginal records through a comprehensive listing of records, and provides an opportunity to publish a guide to the records in both hard copy and electronic formats. Uniquely for Victoria, the records created by the many Victorian government agencies overseeing the administration of Aboriginal affairs have become part of the collections held by both Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia.
The collection was separated due to an administrative change of responsibility for Aboriginal affairs from the State to the Commonwealth in 1975. This guide highlights the wealth of material about Aboriginal Victorians that can be found within government archives, and assists researchers to access these records, regardless of which archive they are currently in. walata tyamateetj is one of many joint initiatives between Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia to raise awareness of available resources for Aboriginal Victorians and to improve access to government records about Aboriginal people, families, communities and culture.
Much has been achieved in the years since the first guide to records was published 20 years ago. In 2004 a joint Koorie Reference Officer role was created to work across both organisations. The role is now a focal point for the provision of services to the Aboriginal community and part of a small team known as the Koorie Records Unit, which was established within the corporate structure of Public Record Office Victoria with a view to continuing cooperation with the National Archives of Australia.
The creation of a shared reading room facility at the Victorian Archives Centre has also been emblematic of the broader cooperation between the two organisations. The Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne provides a central place to access and research the records listed in this guide. Other collaborations between the National Archives of Australia’s Melbourne office and Public Record Office Victoria to promote and improve accessibility to records relating to Aboriginal people held by government and other organisations include publications, workshops and training, and grants programs targeted at highlighting and raising awareness of the rich collection of Aboriginal resources available in Victoria. The Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce provided leadership for many of these initiatives between 2001 and 2011
Scene, on banks of Loddon, Victoria [picture] /
No full textCondition: Some fading.; Part of collection: Victorian views
Scene, Wombat Park, Hepburn, Victoria [picture] /
No full textCondition: Some discoloration.; Part of collection: Victorian views
Exploratory study of risks to stability in foster and kinship care in NSW
No full textThis report describes an exploratory study on various aspects and risks to stability in foster and kinship placements.The report finds that compared to foster care, risks to placement stability are more evident for kinship care. Kinship carers (predominantly grandparents) are older and few have formal agency support. They cope, some not easily, with challenging situations as they arise (e.g. death/separation/divorce of partner/spouse, their birth children’s substance abuse problems, children’s challenging behaviours, their own and grandchildren’s medical conditions). The concept of older carers ‘parenting again’ should not be taken lightly. For many carers there is a continuation and increase in daily housework chores and child care routines, with little time for leisure activities, holidays, hobbies and personal time. Parenting again also requires older carers to make significant changes in the way they conform/adapt to contemporary practices around parenting, child discipline and education. Common themes suggested by foster and kinship carers for keeping placements stable were providing children with routines and boundaries; developing/maintaining strong relationships (with workers, family and birth family); receiving respite; and being supported by workers
Pat Foster and Jen Berean : the police are the public 2008, the public are the police 2008
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2008.;"Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art & Australia emerging writers program." -- cover.Pat Foster and Jen Berean have been working collaboratively since 2001. Pat received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing) in 2004 and his Honours in 2005, from the VCA. Jen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001, and a Bachelor of Architecture in 2006, both from RMIT
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