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"Interagency collaborations supporting resilient students, families and schools in disadvantaged communities"

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project

Industry partners

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)

VicHealth

Community Connections

Academics on the project

• Professor Jill Blackmore (project leader)
  Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
  
  
• Professor Ann Taket
  School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University
  
  
• Associate Professor Christopher Hickey
  Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
  
  
• Associate Professor Andrea Nolan
  School of Education, Victoria University
  
  
• Associate Professor Bernard Marshall
  Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science, Deakin University
  
  
• Associate  Professor Karen Stagnitti
  Health and Social Development, Deakin University
  
  
• Professor Robert Carter
  Health and Social Development, Deakin University

Project background

Social disadvantage (poverty, poor health, unemployment, educational underachievement) is increasingly concentrated. But not all students, families, schools or communities in ‘challenging circumstances’ have poor outcomes (academic and social). This project will identify students, families, schools, and communities indicating ‘resilience’, the conditions and characteristics of that ‘resilience’, and the types of interventions (educational, health, employment related, leisure) that work to improve individual and familial opportunities. The project has two related dimensions in its investigation of resilience in students: as produced through the interaction between family, schools and community; and the conditions, relationships, strategies, and interagency collaborations that support its production in specific contexts. Its interdisciplinary ‘mixed methods’ methodology will produce both applied  knowledge in the form of handbooks to support teachers’ identification and support of  resilience as well as significant national and regional outcomes (approaches, strategies, models) of interagency collaborations that will inform families, school communities, policymakers and practitioners about sustainable and replicable policy interventions.

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