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Community Learning for Parenthood
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Community Learning for Parenthood

Sven R. Silburn and Roz Walker
Evidence into Action Topical Paper (ARACY), Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth
2008
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Abstract

This paper is another in the Evidence-into-Action series of topical papers commissioned by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) to support community-based service providers and organisations in building local capacity to improve early childhood health and development outcomes. In addition to the obvious benefits of early child development for improving the life-chances of individual children, the promotion of early human development is increasingly recognised as benefiting communities and society through longer-term gains in population health, educational outcomes and opportunities for social, civic and economic participation. Given the strength of research evidence regarding the importance of the early years for children’s subsequent health, learning and behaviour – as well as for their longer-term adult health and wellbeing – there is now an imperative to make sure that this knowledge is widely available to parents and the general community. The roll-out of new national and state policies and programs for early child development has enabled many communities around the Australia to implement exciting examples of innovative practice. However, the longer-term sustainability of these initiatives will require investment in work-force development, pre- and in-service training to improve understanding of the processes of early child development, and skills training in new ways of working based on evidence of ‘what works’ in strengths focused child and family community development, population health interventions, child-care and education.

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