Is headspace making a difference to young people’s lives?
Evaluation-of-headspace-program
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Authors<br />
This report was written by the evaluation consortium team led by the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC)<br />
at UNSW. The consortium team includes researchers at the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) at<br />
Curtin University and the Telethon Kids Institute at the University of Western Australia. Chief investiga<strong>to</strong>rs for the<br />
evaluation are Associate Professor Kristy Muir and Professor Ilan Katz from UNSW.<br />
The economic evaluation (Chapter 6) was conducted by researchers at Curtin University. The centre expansion<br />
and national coverage analyses (Appendix B and G) were conducted by researchers at the University of<br />
Western Australia.<br />
Consortium Research Team<br />
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW<br />
Professor Ilan Katz<br />
Associate Professor Kristy Muir (Centre for Social Impact)<br />
Dr Fiona Hilferty<br />
Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University<br />
Professor Alan Duncan<br />
Associate Professor Rebecca Cassells<br />
Dr Grace Gao<br />
Dr Astghik Mavisakalyan<br />
Dr Ha Nguyen<br />
Yashar Tarverdi<br />
Chelsi Wingrove<br />
Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia<br />
Professor Stephen Zubrick<br />
Francis Mitrou<br />
Daniel Christensen<br />
Katherine Hafekost<br />
Dr Hanh Ngo<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
The evaluation consortium team would like <strong>to</strong> acknowledge and thank all those who participated in and assisted<br />
with this evaluation. Firstly, we acknowledge the contribution and assistance of Nicole Jarvis, Bruce Hogbin,<br />
Amanda Shanks and Chelsea Menchin from the Australian Government Department of Health. We thank<br />
members of the <strong>headspace</strong> Evaluation Executive Committee for their governance and support throughout the<br />
project, and members of the evaluation’s Technical Advisory Committee for providing helpful critique and advice.<br />
Sincere thanks go <strong>to</strong> Professor Debra Rickwood, Nic Telford, Matthew Posar, Kiera Mansfield, George Mitanis,<br />
Paul Trounce and Kathleen Alonso from <strong>headspace</strong> National Office who provided much information and<br />
assistance throughout the course of this evaluation. We would also like <strong>to</strong> thank <strong>headspace</strong> staff at the seven<br />
centres where we conducted fieldwork for helping us <strong>to</strong> recruit and interview evaluation participants, as well as<br />
staff at all <strong>headspace</strong> centres for supporting the evaluation.<br />
The evalua<strong>to</strong>rs would also like <strong>to</strong> thank consortium researchers who under<strong>to</strong>ok tasks during the lengthy<br />
evaluation period. In particular we would like <strong>to</strong> thank Ciara Smyth, Andrew Griffiths and Sandra Gendara from<br />
the Social Policy Research Centre; and Hanh Ngo from the Telethon Kids Institute. Thank you also <strong>to</strong> Professor<br />
Steve Zubrick from the Telethon Kids Institute for his early contribution <strong>to</strong> the project and <strong>to</strong> Professor David<br />
Lawrence for his assistance with modelling the YMM data.<br />
Finally, we thank all the <strong>young</strong> people, parents of <strong>young</strong> people, <strong>headspace</strong> staff and professional stakeholders<br />
that generously gave their time <strong>to</strong> complete evaluation surveys and/or <strong>to</strong> participate in interviews.