Communities for Children (Staff)Project commencement date:October 2005
Project completion date:October 2009
The Salvation Army (Tasmania) was awarded a Stronger Families: Communities for Children contract to become a facilitating partner with the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services.
The UDRH is working with the Salvation Army on this exciting project which aims to help families and communities build better futures for children, build family and community capacity, support relationships between families and the communities they live in, and improve communities’ ability to help themselves.
Southern Tasmania project
The Southern Tasmania project covers the four local government areas of Brighton, New Norfolk, Central Highlands and Southern Midlands.
Burnie municipality project
UDRH working as consultants and local evaluators with Centacare Tasmania, the Facilitating Partner for the Communities for Children project in the Burnie municipality.
UDRH’s role will be as consultants and local evaluators of the two four-year projects and provide advice to the Facilitating Partners on applying evidence in their initiative design and implementation, and also providing consultancy to local initiatives in relation to evaluation, management information and data collection, storage and analysis. In our evaluator capacity, we will undertake evaluation activity associated with local initiatives, quality assure the data, and coordinate local data collection on behalf of a National Evaluation which will cover many similar projects across Australia.
Dr Pat Millar and Honorary Associate John Guenther will be working with Associate Professor Sue Kilpatrick on the projects.
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