Child maltreatment is a global health priority affecting up to half of all children worldwide, with profound and ongoing impacts on physical, social and emotional wellbeing.
The 2017 pilot More Than a Landlord (MTaL) project utilised peer research methods to collect data from social housing tenants through a household survey.
The wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children includes a range of interrelated domains – safety, health, culture and connections, mental health and emotional wellbeing, home and environment, learning and skills, empowerment and economic wellbeing.
The best opportunity to build a strong foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing occurs during the first 1000 days – the period from conception, throughout pregnancy, and during a child’s first two years.
The Child Friendly Alice Community Profile has been developed to better understand the important issues for children and young people in Alice Springs.
The First 1000 Days Australia Household Study is being developed and led in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in two Queensland regions – Moreton Bay and Townsville.
The First 1000 Days Australia Council appreciates that parenting is a skill learned from being parented and is specific to the demands of a particular way of life. The Council also understands there are families who experience social and health inequities.
We have been working with fathers, uncles, pops, brothers and young men who will be fathers for many years now, in clinical work, in prisons, in schools and hospitals and with communities in every state.