Family Action Centre Research Projects

 Research Area

 Research Projects

 Chief Investigator /
Project Manager

 Families, including fathers

 Competencies for engaging fathers in Family Relationship Centres

 Richard Fletcher

 Pathways to help for separated fathers

 Measures of change for fathers in FRC process

 Fathers and mothers talking on the web

 Improving men's health: involvement in SA Children's Centres

 Commuters' work-life balance (Gosford)

 Young and older parents connecting activities (Taree)

 Engaging Indigenous fathers (Dubbo)

 Child development knowledge support for separated parents (Coffs Harbour)

 New fathers and YouTube

 Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids

 Phil Morgan, Victoria Clay and Richard Fletcher

 Early Words Program Evaluation

 Maree Collins

 Families Learning and Growing (FLAG) action research project

 Kerrell Bourne

 Partners in Parenting (PIP) Project: external evaluation

 Graeme Stuart

 School and community engagement

 Gender policy in Australian schools: changing emphases and implications for practice

 Debarah Hartman

 Towards new approaches to gender in education

The local evaluation of Communities for Children (C4C). An evaluation of the local program in Raymond Terrace and Karuah, Taree, Miller and Mount Druitt.

 Deborah Hartman, Gaye Sheather and Maree Collins

An examination of boys' and girls' perceptions of middle school and their responses to classroom interventions

 Victoria Clay

 Boys, self-concept and quality of school life: connections and implications

 PlayTime: good eating and physical activities for kids with families

 Dads in the workplace: engaging the fathering skills of men in the workplace

 Graeme Stuart

Strength-based practice

 Strength-based assessment by family and community workers: an action research project

Graeme Stuart

 Snak and Rap: external evaluation

 SNUG evaluation

 Supporting caravan park residents: principles of promising practice

 Asset-based community development in the Australian context

 Judi Geggie and Gus Eddy

 Engaged Research at the University of Newcastle

 Deb Hartman

Other

 Disaster planning in park communities

Graeme Stuart