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Accountability and user participation in Chinese child welfare non-government organisations
Advance statements in mental health care
Arthritis and disability
Assertive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Evaluation
Attendant care direct funding pilot project evaluation
Australia’s Social and Community Services Workforce
Australian Chinese disability peer support in Sydney
Australian Community Sector Survey 2019
Australian Experiences of Poverty: Risk Precarity and Uncertainty during COVID-19
Australian Framework for Financial Wellbeing
Australia's charitable sector
Baseline study of current and future availability of ex-service organisation advocacy services
Best practice guide for Disability Support Providers (DSPs) employing support workers within NDIS
Better Places Stronger Communities Project Evaluation
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Budget Standards: A new healthy living minimum income standard for low-paid and unemployed Australians
Budget Standards for Low-Paid Families
Building China's Welfare State – Government Purchased Services for Children
Carers and Social Inclusion: New Frameworks, Evidence and Policy Lessons
Changing community attitudes to improve inclusion for people with disability
Commissioning homelessness services
Community Justice Program: process evaluation
Community Living Supports (CLS) and the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Evaluation
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a Light on Social Transformation
Culturally responsive disability support with Chinese clients in Sydney
Deprivation and Exclusion among Young People
Designing illicit drug policy solutions: the role of participation
Disability Employment and Digital Economies
Disability Employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
DREAM Employment Network Program Evaluation
Drug and Alcohol Services Planning Model (DASPM)
Early Childhood Intervention Review
Early Review of Specialist Homelessness Services Program
Educational Pathways Program Evaluation
Employment Arrangements in Social and Community Services (SACS) receiving Commonwealth direct funding
Employment Model Outcomes for People with Intellectual Disability
Enable In action research
Engagement in early childhood education in the context of disadvantage
Equitable Access to High Quality Early Childhood Education
Evaluation of Drug Law Reform in the ACT
Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia
Evaluation of ILC Project Our Voices, Our Lives, Our Way
Evaluation of New Income Management in the Northern Territory
Evaluation of outcomes for people nominated to the Integrated Services Program (ISP)
Evaluation of Partnerships with Good Sammy Enterprises
Evaluation of SDN Beranga Autism-specific Preschool
Evaluation of the Child Sexual Offence Evidence Pilot
Evaluation of the Community for Everyone project
Evaluation of the Country Universities Centre
Evaluation of the Development and Trialling of the InnoWell Platform
Evaluation of the Educational Pathways Program
Evaluation of the headspace Program
Evaluation of the Home and Healthy Program
Evaluation of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Program
Evaluation of the Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Evaluation of the Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Hubs (IDMH Hubs)
Evaluation of the Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Evaluation of the National headspace Program
Evaluation of the Universal Screening and Support Pilot
Everyday steps to prevent everyday harm of people with disability
Experiences of families with children with disabilities in China
Families at the Centre: Negotiating Australia's mixed market in early education and care
Family Advocacy research
Family day care services: co-ordination funding models
Gender-based Occupational Segregation: A National Data Profile
Growing Up Making Decisions
Homelessness amongst Australian veterans
Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Plus evaluation
How can co-governance arrangements be used to develop better policy?
How do place-based services evolve in a world of virtual, physical and hybrid service delivery
Identifying opportunities to develop good practice in supported decision-making for people with disability
IDMH NDIS Residual Functions Program evaluation
Implementation of the NDIS in the early childhood intervention sector in NSW
Improving alcohol and other drug policy by focussing on values
Improving communication, coordination, and collaboration amongst alcohol and other drug treatment funders
Income management approaches: review of evidence
Income management in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands
Insights into abuse of older people
Integrated services project: Evaluation of cost and operational effectiveness
Intellectual Disability Mental Health (IDMH) Strategy Consultations
Intensive home-based support services evaluation
Keeping women safe in their homes
Keeping women safe in their homes: technology trial evaluation
Left out and missing out: towards new indicators of social exclusion and material deprivation
Lessons learnt from alcohol and tobacco for cannabis regulation
Making a difference: building on children's perspectives on economic adversity
Making complex interfaces work for the National Disability Insurance scheme
Markets, migration & the work of care in Australia
Maximising life choices of people with spinal cord injury
Meeting the social and emotional support needs of older people using aged care services
Models of health service delivery for people with intellectual disability
MRCA study design framework
My Choice Matters evaluation
National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations (NACBO)
National survey of domestic violence and sexual assault workforces
National treatment framework
NDIS prices and the disability workforce | Social Policy Research Centre
NDIS workforce 2020
New Horizons: The review of alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a Light on Social Transformation
Opportunity, choice, healing, responsibility and empowerment (OCHRE) Initiatives evaluations
Our Voice SA Reaching Out Evaluation
Outcome evaluation of community participation grants
Pathways to preventive care for people with severe mental illness
Peer support practice review
Performance measures for NSW NGO AOD Treatment Services
Policy framework for parenting
Poverty and inequality in Australia
Poverty in Australia 2016
Preventing alcohol related-harms: using comparative policy analysis to study the effects and development of local government alcohol policy
Protecting sexually abused children in China
Rethinking policy participation, ‘young people’ and ‘drugs’
Review of the national disability strategy 2010-2020
Road to employment evaluation
Self managing NDIS packages: promising practice for people left behind
Shared care parenting arrangements since the 2006 family law reforms
Skilled to thrive: safeguarding support action
Social support for Chinese families with children with disability
Special Disability Trusts
Specialist Workers for Children and Young People Outcomes Evaluation
Supported accommodation evaluation framework (SAEF)
Supported decision making for people subject to positive behaviour support
Supported accommodation evaluation framework (SAEF)
Sustaining Old Age Volunteerism Among CALD Population
The Horizons Project: An empirical analysis of alcohol and drug treatment funding, purchasing and workforce mechanisms
The role of alcohol in the informal entertainment scene in Sydney
Throughcare evaluation
Towards best-practice access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse people with a disability
Transition of respite to consumer directed care: costs, benefits and impacts
Two carer support policy: review of the need for two care workers in a community setting
Uniting Families Report
Updated Budget Standards for 2024
Whole of Community NSW AOD Prevention and Education Framework
Women’s economic security following domestic and family violence
Workforce issues in the NSW community services sector
Young people and adversity: stories of resourcing and resourcefulness
Young people with cognitive disability: Relationships and paid support
Youth Advocate Program evaluation
Youth exposure to and management of cyberbullying incidents in Australia
Youth unemployment in Australia
Service needs and experiences of veterans from migrant or multicultural backgrounds
NSW Health NDIS Mental Health Officers Program
Rapid Evidence Review – Transformation of Closed Employment
Intellectual Disability Mental Health Strategy Consultation 2025
Using evidence to evaluate Australian drug trafficking thresholds: Proportionate, equitable and just?
Understanding drug policy preference data
Public opinion and drug policy: engaging the ‘affected community’
Developing a best-practice model of decriminalisation for Uniting Vic.Tas
Impact of COVID-19 on the non-government alcohol and other drug sector
Purchase patterns and price responsivity of a cohort of people who inject drugs
Studying the 2024 NSW Drug Summit
Youth attitudes and opinions towards drug policy and interventions
Discussion paper – Alcohol Mandatory Treatment
Strategic advocacy and drug policy: a case study of the ACT overdose management program
Reducing stigma and discrimination for people experiencing problematic alcohol and other drug use
Criminal justice responses relating to personal possession of illicit drugs
Examining the effectiveness of different types of law enforcement interventions directed towards methamphetamine
The deterrence effects of Australian drug law enforcement
Building Government and Civil Society Ownership on Decriminalisation of Drugs for Use and Personal Possession, Malaysia
Drugs on the darknet: Assessing the global health risks of a rapidly expanding market
Evaluation of the Australian Capital Territory drug diversion programs
Harm Reduction in Prisons
Implementation of time-limited parenteral hydromorphone in people with treatment-resistant injecting opioid use disorder: Feasibility, acceptability, and cost
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender: substance misuse and mental health: prevalence and interventions
Review of the evidence about involuntary alcohol and other drug treatment
The 'ice epidemic': An analysis of the policy context, process and outcomes
The development of non-government alcohol and other drug treatment service specifications
Legal thresholds for serious drug offences: Expert advice to the ACT on the amounts for trafficable, commercial and large commercial drug offences
Capacity building for outcome evaluation within two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and other drug residential rehabilitation services in Queensland
The science-policy interface in policy theories: a comparative case study of street-level policing for illicit drugs
Promoting compliance, recovery and desistance : comparative case studies of pre-sentence diversion schemes for drug misusing arrestees in Australia and England
Assessing the economic consequences of cannabis policy options
Investigating the Utility of Indexes in Comparative Drug Policy Analysis
Economic evaluation comparing the cost-effectiveness of center-based compulsory rehabilitation (CCT) and voluntary community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Hai Phong City, Vietnam.
Performance measurement in alcohol and other drug treatment services
Problematising the 'evidence-based' drug policy paradigm
Understanding Vietnam’s drug policy from a human-right lens
Understanding how high-level synthetic stimulant traffickers in Australia adapt to changes in their drug supply
‘There But Not There’: Drug User Representation in High Level Drug Policy Settings
Advancing understandings of remission and approaches to treatment through an examination of untreated remission from alcohol problems
Adding diversity to Auslan – developing an Islamic signs lexicon
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1800RESPECT evaluation
A longitudinal study of the wellbeing of Amélie Housing Social and Affordable Housing Fund social housing tenants
Accommodating the NDIS: maximising housing choice in a reformed disability sector
Accountability and user participation in Chinese child welfare non-government organisations
Advance statements in mental health care
Arthritis and disability
Assertive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Evaluation
Attendant care direct funding pilot project evaluation
Australia’s Social and Community Services Workforce
Australian Chinese disability peer support in Sydney
Australian Community Sector Survey 2019
Australian Experiences of Poverty: Risk Precarity and Uncertainty during COVID-19
Australian Framework for Financial Wellbeing
Australia's charitable sector
Baseline study of current and future availability of ex-service organisation advocacy services
Best practice guide for Disability Support Providers (DSPs) employing support workers within NDIS
Better Places Stronger Communities Project Evaluation
Bibliographies
Budget Standards: A new healthy living minimum income standard for low-paid and unemployed Australians
Budget Standards for Low-Paid Families
Building China's Welfare State – Government Purchased Services for Children
Carers and Social Inclusion: New Frameworks, Evidence and Policy Lessons
Changing community attitudes to improve inclusion for people with disability
Commissioning homelessness services
Community Justice Program: process evaluation
Community Living Supports (CLS) and the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Evaluation
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a Light on Social Transformation
Culturally responsive disability support with Chinese clients in Sydney
Deprivation and Exclusion among Young People
Designing illicit drug policy solutions: the role of participation
Disability Employment and Digital Economies
Disability Employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
DREAM Employment Network Program Evaluation
Drug and Alcohol Services Planning Model (DASPM)
Early Childhood Intervention Review
Early Review of Specialist Homelessness Services Program
Educational Pathways Program Evaluation
Employment Arrangements in Social and Community Services (SACS) receiving Commonwealth direct funding
Employment Model Outcomes for People with Intellectual Disability
Enable In action research
Engagement in early childhood education in the context of disadvantage
Equitable Access to High Quality Early Childhood Education
Evaluation of Drug Law Reform in the ACT
Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia
Evaluation of ILC Project Our Voices, Our Lives, Our Way
Evaluation of New Income Management in the Northern Territory
Evaluation of outcomes for people nominated to the Integrated Services Program (ISP)
Evaluation of Partnerships with Good Sammy Enterprises
Evaluation of SDN Beranga Autism-specific Preschool
Evaluation of the Child Sexual Offence Evidence Pilot
Evaluation of the Community for Everyone project
Evaluation of the Country Universities Centre
Evaluation of the Development and Trialling of the InnoWell Platform
Evaluation of the Educational Pathways Program
Evaluation of the headspace Program
Evaluation of the Home and Healthy Program
Evaluation of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Program
Evaluation of the Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Evaluation of the Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Hubs (IDMH Hubs)
Evaluation of the Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program
Evaluation of the National headspace Program
Evaluation of the Universal Screening and Support Pilot
Everyday steps to prevent everyday harm of people with disability
Experiences of families with children with disabilities in China
Families at the Centre: Negotiating Australia's mixed market in early education and care
Family Advocacy research
Family day care services: co-ordination funding models
Gender-based Occupational Segregation: A National Data Profile
Growing Up Making Decisions
Homelessness amongst Australian veterans
Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Plus evaluation
How can co-governance arrangements be used to develop better policy?
How do place-based services evolve in a world of virtual, physical and hybrid service delivery
Identifying opportunities to develop good practice in supported decision-making for people with disability
IDMH NDIS Residual Functions Program evaluation
Implementation of the NDIS in the early childhood intervention sector in NSW
Improving alcohol and other drug policy by focussing on values
Improving communication, coordination, and collaboration amongst alcohol and other drug treatment funders
Income management approaches: review of evidence
Income management in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands
Insights into abuse of older people
Integrated services project: Evaluation of cost and operational effectiveness
Intellectual Disability Mental Health (IDMH) Strategy Consultations
Intensive home-based support services evaluation
Keeping women safe in their homes
Keeping women safe in their homes: technology trial evaluation
Left out and missing out: towards new indicators of social exclusion and material deprivation
Lessons learnt from alcohol and tobacco for cannabis regulation
Making a difference: building on children's perspectives on economic adversity
Making complex interfaces work for the National Disability Insurance scheme
Markets, migration & the work of care in Australia
Maximising life choices of people with spinal cord injury
Meeting the social and emotional support needs of older people using aged care services
Models of health service delivery for people with intellectual disability
MRCA study design framework
My Choice Matters evaluation
National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations (NACBO)
National survey of domestic violence and sexual assault workforces
National treatment framework
NDIS prices and the disability workforce | Social Policy Research Centre
NDIS workforce 2020
New Horizons: The review of alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a Light on Social Transformation
Opportunity, choice, healing, responsibility and empowerment (OCHRE) Initiatives evaluations
Our Voice SA Reaching Out Evaluation
Outcome evaluation of community participation grants
Pathways to preventive care for people with severe mental illness
Peer support practice review
Performance measures for NSW NGO AOD Treatment Services
Policy framework for parenting
Poverty and inequality in Australia
Poverty in Australia 2016
Preventing alcohol related-harms: using comparative policy analysis to study the effects and development of local government alcohol policy
Protecting sexually abused children in China
Rethinking policy participation, ‘young people’ and ‘drugs’
Review of the national disability strategy 2010-2020
Road to employment evaluation
Self managing NDIS packages: promising practice for people left behind
Shared care parenting arrangements since the 2006 family law reforms
Skilled to thrive: safeguarding support action
Social support for Chinese families with children with disability
Special Disability Trusts
Specialist Workers for Children and Young People Outcomes Evaluation
Supported accommodation evaluation framework (SAEF)
Supported decision making for people subject to positive behaviour support
Supported accommodation evaluation framework (SAEF)
Sustaining Old Age Volunteerism Among CALD Population
The Horizons Project: An empirical analysis of alcohol and drug treatment funding, purchasing and workforce mechanisms
The role of alcohol in the informal entertainment scene in Sydney
Throughcare evaluation
Towards best-practice access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse people with a disability
Transition of respite to consumer directed care: costs, benefits and impacts
Two carer support policy: review of the need for two care workers in a community setting
Uniting Families Report
Updated Budget Standards for 2024
Whole of Community NSW AOD Prevention and Education Framework
Women’s economic security following domestic and family violence
Workforce issues in the NSW community services sector
Young people and adversity: stories of resourcing and resourcefulness
Young people with cognitive disability: Relationships and paid support
Youth Advocate Program evaluation
Youth exposure to and management of cyberbullying incidents in Australia
Youth unemployment in Australia
Service needs and experiences of veterans from migrant or multicultural backgrounds
NSW Health NDIS Mental Health Officers Program
Rapid Evidence Review – Transformation of Closed Employment
Intellectual Disability Mental Health Strategy Consultation 2025
Using evidence to evaluate Australian drug trafficking thresholds: Proportionate, equitable and just?
Understanding drug policy preference data
Public opinion and drug policy: engaging the ‘affected community’
Developing a best-practice model of decriminalisation for Uniting Vic.Tas
Impact of COVID-19 on the non-government alcohol and other drug sector
Purchase patterns and price responsivity of a cohort of people who inject drugs
Studying the 2024 NSW Drug Summit
Youth attitudes and opinions towards drug policy and interventions
Discussion paper – Alcohol Mandatory Treatment
Strategic advocacy and drug policy: a case study of the ACT overdose management program
Reducing stigma and discrimination for people experiencing problematic alcohol and other drug use
Criminal justice responses relating to personal possession of illicit drugs
Examining the effectiveness of different types of law enforcement interventions directed towards methamphetamine
The deterrence effects of Australian drug law enforcement
Building Government and Civil Society Ownership on Decriminalisation of Drugs for Use and Personal Possession, Malaysia
Drugs on the darknet: Assessing the global health risks of a rapidly expanding market
Evaluation of the Australian Capital Territory drug diversion programs
Harm Reduction in Prisons
Implementation of time-limited parenteral hydromorphone in people with treatment-resistant injecting opioid use disorder: Feasibility, acceptability, and cost
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender: substance misuse and mental health: prevalence and interventions
Review of the evidence about involuntary alcohol and other drug treatment
The 'ice epidemic': An analysis of the policy context, process and outcomes
The development of non-government alcohol and other drug treatment service specifications
Legal thresholds for serious drug offences: Expert advice to the ACT on the amounts for trafficable, commercial and large commercial drug offences
Capacity building for outcome evaluation within two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and other drug residential rehabilitation services in Queensland
The science-policy interface in policy theories: a comparative case study of street-level policing for illicit drugs
Promoting compliance, recovery and desistance : comparative case studies of pre-sentence diversion schemes for drug misusing arrestees in Australia and England
Assessing the economic consequences of cannabis policy options
Investigating the Utility of Indexes in Comparative Drug Policy Analysis
Economic evaluation comparing the cost-effectiveness of center-based compulsory rehabilitation (CCT) and voluntary community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Hai Phong City, Vietnam.
Performance measurement in alcohol and other drug treatment services
Problematising the 'evidence-based' drug policy paradigm
Understanding Vietnam’s drug policy from a human-right lens
Understanding how high-level synthetic stimulant traffickers in Australia adapt to changes in their drug supply
‘There But Not There’: Drug User Representation in High Level Drug Policy Settings
Advancing understandings of remission and approaches to treatment through an examination of untreated remission from alcohol problems
Adding diversity to Auslan – developing an Islamic signs lexicon
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Chinese social policy
About us (in Chinese)
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Migration & urbanisation
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Drug Policy Modelling Program
Strengthening injecting-related harm reduction in prisons
Bulletins
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Drug policy timeline
Make a donation
DPMP Symposium 2024
Evidence hub for the NSW Drug Summit 2024
Examining the relationship between values and policy preferences in alcohol and other drugs
Families & communities
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Accessible reports
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