Our Projects

Money matters. It can determine, how we live, how stressed we feel and what options are available to us, now and in the future. The ability to manage money and cope with unexpected financial shocks is important for individuals, households and the economy.

Over the past five years Australian Policy Online has become a key element of the national information structure, delivering research reports and other research-related material to a large and growing group of researchers in universities, government and the professions.

SPRC is conducting a baseline study for use in the evaluation of the New Income Management (NIM) scheme in the Northern Territory, which is set to commence in early 2011.

This project is monitoring and assessing the journey of SDN Children’s Services in ‘becoming and being’ an integrated organisation.

Led by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the project produced practical best practice guidelines and examples for recruitment, support, training and retention to optimise outcomes for people with disability.

Project Description: This project has been commissioned by Campbell Page, a non-government organisation which provides job placement services throughout Australia. People with mental health problems are a primary client group of job placement services.

The Better Futures Regional Strategy was put in place to improve the health, education and safety outcomes of young people by improving the ways in which communities and services support young people and respond to their needs.

The South Australian government is transferring the management of public housing dwellings to the community housing sector, under the Better Places, Stronger Communities (BPSC) project.

The aim of this project is to determine the degree to which beyondblue research funding from 2002-2010 has helped to improve the understanding of depression, anxiety and related disorders in Australia. Improvement is measured according to the following criteria:

One of the ways that the Drug Policy Modelling Program contributes to improved Australian drug policy is through providing access to research evidence, particularly grey literature which has not been published commercially and may not be available through conventional channels of distribution.  

The Active Linking Initiative (ALI) provides learning and life skills development services for people with disability who are residents of Licensed Residential Centres (boarding houses).

While many young Australians identify body image is a significant concern, recent evidence from Mission Australia’s National Survey of Young Australians 2010 show that concerns are particularly high for Indigenous young Australians and young people who identify as homeless.

This project builds on previous Australian and recent international research to develop a set of budget standards for low-paid and unemployed Australians and their families.

This project, commissioned by the NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS) and jointly managed by DoCS and the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, aims to identify key workforce trends and challenges in the non-government community services sector, and strategies for improving workforce qua