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Supportive relationships and active skill-building strengthen the foundations of resilience
Harvard UniversityThis working paper explains how protective factors in the social environment and responsive biological systems interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in face of significant adversity. -
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Protective factors approaches in child welfare
Child Welfare Information GatewayThis brief provides an overview of protective factors approaches in child maltreatment as well as examples of how they are being put into practice. -
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Is resilience still a useful concept when working with children and young people?
Cathryn HunterThis paper discusses some of the complex issues surrounding the issue of resilience and how these can be considered in working with children and young people. -
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Working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) adolescents
Child Family Community AustraliaThis page contains a compilation of reports, policy papers and other resources for professionals supporting CALD adolescents. It includes a section on trauma with resources to help recognise and respond to the long-term effects of torture and trauma among newly arrived young people, particularly refugees. -
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The Working with Refugee Families Project
This report outlines the findings of a three stage research project designed to examine why recently arrived families from refugee backgrounds are presenting to the child protection system and to identify culturally appropriate strategies and models for intervention. -
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Putting adolescents and youth at the centre
Forced Migration ReviewThis article discusses the challenges that young refugee and displaced people face and the considerations that need to be taken when developing programs to assist them. -
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Mentoring for resettled youth
Forced Migration ReviewThis article discusses the benefits that one to one mentoring can have for refugee youth resettling in new communities. -
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Challenging some assumptions about ‘refugee youth’
Christina Clark-KazakThis article discusses the peer networks that young unaccompanied refugees develop. -
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Assisting unaccompanied youth to integrate
Nathalie LummertWith the right assistance and support, unaccompanied refugee youth can adapt and thrive in a new country while maintaining their cultural identity. -
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Promoting perinatal mental health wellness in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Sue Ferguson-HillThis document discusses the protective and risk factors in consideration of perinatal mental health in Indigenous communities. The impact of parental trauma is discussed in relation to these risk factors. -
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All babies count: Prevention and protection for vulnerable babies
Chris Cuthbert, Gwynne Rayns and Kate StanleyThis document discusses the issue of maltreatment in pregnancy and provides information on working with vulnerable families and children during the perinatal period and infancy. The document has a strong focus on child abuse during this period. -
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A stitch in time saves nine: Preventing and responding to the abuse and neglect of infants
This information discusses the risk of child abuse and neglect during infancy and discusses interventions to address this. The role of parental risk factors is also examined.