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Child Protection Research The Child Protection Research Program (CPRP) is focused on driving the implementation of evidence-based interventions for children and families who are at risk, working across the government, non-government and community sectors. Rather than follow more traditional child protection methods which tend to involve crisis management and interventions ‘after the fact’, the CPRP is very much committed to identifying effective and culturally appropriate preventative and early intervention methods that work to stop child abuse or neglect from taking place to begin with. 12 The Centre for Child Development and Education
Research Highlights Child Protection Research CCDE’s Child Protection Research Program (CPRP) aims to better understand how to protect the safety, health and wellbeing of children in the Northern Territory (NT). Informed by international and national research, the specialist CPRP team is building a local evidence base to improve policy and practice across the children and families service system. This service system includes a range of Aboriginal, statutory and non-government organisations delivering early intervention, child protection and out-ofhome care programs and services to vulnerable children. To effectively support these children, we must also support parents, carers, extended family, kinship groups, broader communities and practitioners. With a high number of Aboriginal children entering the child protection system, the program has a particular focus on developing and implementing culturally responsive strategies to prevent child abuse and neglect. Established as a partnership with the NT Government, in 2012 the program completed a number of important research projects for the NT Office for Children and Families (OCF). The scope of the program was expanded to work with a range of Aboriginal and non-government organisations. Projects included: • Implementation support and preliminary evaluation of a Family Group Conferencing model for Aboriginal children • Literature review of Men’s Places focusing on the prevention and responses to family violence with a focus on engaging Aboriginal men in remote communities • Social marketing and community education campaign to prevent child abuse and neglect in the NT-consortium partnership with Strong Aboriginal Families, Together (SAF,T), the NT peak body for Aboriginal children and families: Exploring bicultural practice in the NT children and families sector • Consultancy for Relationships Australia NT to evaluate the Holding Children Together Model, a therapeutic counselling model for Aboriginal children • Clinical consultancy to provide professional development, reflective and complex case supervision to therapeutic services, practice advisors and team leaders within NT OCF. Annual Report 2012 13
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