Improving housing and service responses to domestic and family violence for Indigenous individuals and families

Cripps, Kyllie; Habibis, Daphne

doi:10.18408/ahuri-7116201

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“…These changes fail to recognize the significant systemic barriers that Aboriginal families face in accessing appropriate services, particularly in rural and remote communities. Across Australia, the availability of rehabilitation, therapeutic counselling and intensive family support is very limited (Cripps & Habibis, 2019, p. 3). This downstream model was concordant with an overall lack of commitment evident amongst governments and state authorities to healing the damage caused by genocidal state policies and practices.…”

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Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children

Turnbull-Roberts

Salter

Newton

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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Currently, Aboriginal children are significantly over-represented in the out-of-home-care system. Drawing on Aboriginal trauma scholarship and decolonizing methodologies, this paper situates the contemporary state removal of Aboriginal children against the backdrop of historical policies that actively sought to disrupt Aboriginal kinship and communities. The paper draws on submissions to the 2018 Australian Senate Parliamentary Inquiry into Adoption Reform from Aboriginal community controlled organizations and highlights four common themes evident throughout these submissions: (i) the role of intergenerational trauma in high rates of Aboriginal child removal; (ii) the place of children within Aboriginal culture, kinship and identity; (iii) the centrality of the principles of self-determination and autonomy for Aboriginal communities and (iv) Aboriginal community controlled alternatives to child removal.Acknowledging the failure of both federal and state reforms to address the issues raised in these submissions, the paper reflects on the marginalization of Aboriginal voices and solutions within contemporary efforts to address the multiple crises of the child protection system and the implications for the future of Aboriginal children.

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Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children

Turnbull-Roberts

Salter

Newton

2021

Child & Family Social Work

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“…Safe houses are for women and children at immediate risk of harm due to family and domestic violence, and do not include sexual assault referral centres. Safe houses are available in many remote Aboriginal communities, and offer short-term crisis accommodation in communities that lack other forms of housing support 51. The number of women and accompanying children using these services will be examined.…”

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“…Safe houses are available in many remote Aboriginal communities, and offer short-term crisis accommodation in communities that lack other forms of housing support. 51 The number of women and accompanying children using these services will be examined.…”

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Learning from alcohol (policy) reforms in the Northern Territory (LEARNT): protocol for a mixed-methods study examining the impacts of the banned drinker register

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IntroductionThe Banned Drinker Register (BDR) was reintroduced in the Northern Territory (NT) in September 2017. The BDR is a supply reduction measure and involves placing people who consume alcohol at harmful levels on a register prohibiting the purchase, possession and consumption of alcohol. The current study aims to evaluate the impacts of the reintroduction of the BDR, in the context of other major alcohol policy initiatives introduced across the NT such as Police Auxiliary Liquor Inspectors and a minimum unit price for alcohol of US$1.30 per standard drink.Methods and analysesThe Learning from Alcohol (policy) Reforms in the Northern Territory project will use a mixed-methods approach and contain four major components: epidemiological analysis of trends over time (outcomes include health, justice and social welfare data); individual-level data linkage including those on the BDR (outcomes include health and justice data); qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in the NT (n≥50); and qualitative interviews among people who are, or were previously, on the BDR, as well as the families and communities connected to those on the BDR (n=150). The impacts of the BDR on epidemiological data will be examined using time series analysis. Linked data will use generalised mixed models to analyse the relationship between outcomes and exposures, utilising appropriate distributions. Qualitative data will be analysed using thematic analysis.Ethics and disseminationEthics approvals have been obtained from NT Department of Health and Menzies School of Health Research Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC), Central Australia HREC and Deakin University HREC. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, we will report our findings to key organisational, policy, government and community stakeholders via conferences, briefings and lay summaries.

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“…Many communities face critical housing shortages and associated overcrowding in urban, regional and remote areas documented over many years (AIHW 2014; 2020a, p. 115). Inadequate housing has a direct impact on the ability of local health services and communities to ensure social distancing, as well as immediately exacerbating a complex set of interrelated issues including family safety, preexisting overcrowding and ageing infrastructure (Cripps & Habibis 2019, p. 7). During COVID‐19, the housing crisis has been exacerbated by people returning from urban centres to ancestral country.…”

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Roadmap to recovery: Reporting on a research taskforce supporting Indigenous responses to COVID‐19 in Australia

Moodie

Ward

Dudgeon

et al. 2020

Aust J Social Issues

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In April 2020 a Group of Eight Taskforce was convened, consisting of over 100 researchers, to provide independent, research‐based recommendations to the Commonwealth Government on a “Roadmap to Recovery” from COVID‐19. The report covered issues ranging from pandemic control and relaxation of social distancing measures, to well‐being and special considerations for vulnerable populations. Our work focused on the critical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; this paper presents an overview of our recommendations to the Roadmap report. In addressing the global challenges posed by pandemics for citizens around the world, Indigenous people are recognised as highly vulnerable. At the time of writing Australia's First Nations Peoples have been largely spared from COVID‐19 in comparison to other Indigenous populations globally. Our recommendations emphasise self‐determination and equitable needs‐based funding to support Indigenous communities to recover from COVID‐19, addressing persistent overcrowded housing, and a focus on workforce, especially for regional and remote communities. These latter two issues have been highlighted as major issues of risk for Indigenous communities in Australia It remains to be seen how governments across Australia take up these recommendations to support Indigenous peoples' health and healing journey through yet another, potentially catastrophic, health crisis.

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Improving housing and service responses to domestic and family violence for Indigenous individuals and families

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children

Trauma then and now: Implications of adoption reform for First Nations children

Learning from alcohol (policy) reforms in the Northern Territory (LEARNT): protocol for a mixed-methods study examining the impacts of the banned drinker register

Roadmap to recovery: Reporting on a research taskforce supporting Indigenous responses to COVID‐19 in Australia

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