Finding the best way to work with children and young people: Good engagement and giving them a voice Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 6-12. Frontline Child, Youth and Family social workers discuss the meaning and reality of engagement with young people. This key skill…
Listening to experts: Children and young people’s participation Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 30-39. Social workers who want their practice to be more child centred must learn to find new and better ways to listen to…
Telling a child’s story: creating a words and pictures story book to tell children why they are in care Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 Social Work Now, Issue 49, pages 13-20. Open Home Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people in care uses a story book approach to…
The Alcohol Purchasing Patterns of Heavy Drinkers Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 In 2011 the Ministry of Health commissioned research to investigate the alcohol purchasing patterns of heavy drinkers. The research informed consideration of a minimum pricing regime…
Healthy Beginnings: Developing perinatal and infant mental health services in New Zealand Last Publication Date: 20 Jan 2012 Healthy Beginnings provides guidance for district health boards, other health planners and funders and providers of perinatal and infant mental health and alcohol and other drug…
Tai Aroha Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 A formative evaluation of the 'Tai Aroha' residential community-based programme for high-risk offenders (2012). Since October 2007, the number of community-based sentencing options available to the judiciary…
Strengthening Our Foundations: Service user roles in the mental health workforce Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 The research aims promote the value of service users roles within the mental health sector and to find out what is needed to strengthen those roles.…
Finding the crowding index that works best for New Zealand: Applying different crowding indexes to Census of Population and Dwellings data for 1986–2006 (Stats NZ WP 11-04) Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 This study aimed to determine which household crowding measure worked best in the New Zealand context. The issue of crowded households has concerned researchers in New Zealand…
How prepared are New Zealanders for a natural disaster? Results from the 2010 General Social Survey Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 This report outlines preparations New Zealand households have made for a natural disaster, using information from the 2010 New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS). It follows…
Reporting Suicide: A resource for the media Last Publication Date: 22 Dec 2011 The resource is designed for quick access by busy journalists. It describes issues relating to suicide reporting, suggests areas that journalists should think carefully about, and…
