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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.

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