Rochelle Spencer

This review was commissioned in 2007 by the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) in NSW to provide a survey of the literature on social isolation, with the intention of identifying best practice strategies and to help develop guidelines for Home and Community Care (HACC) services. The aim of the review was to promote evidence-based practice and assist in the development of indicators of social isolation for HACC services to use in identifying and addressing social isolation...

This report analyses the results of a one year evaluation that was jointly funded by Macquarie University and Red Cross through the Macquarie University External Collaborative Grant Scheme. Young Parents Program is a three staged transition program that provides a holistic, strengths-based perspective towards early intervention with a focus on family restoration and preservation. It aims to develop the capacities of young parents to live independently in secure housing and to parent successfully...