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March 2020
The Brotherhood of St Laurence, formed amid the Great Depression of the 1930s, is acutely aware of the deep challenge that COVID-19 has brought to all part of our community. We are contributing to the effort to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable among us.
Read more about our response to these extraordinary times, from our Executive Director Conny Lenneberg last week.
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In this issue of Brotherhood Update read about other ongoing research and policy work.
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POLICY Cross-cultural responsiveness in early years services
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Children from families with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds may be missing out on critical early years services such as kindergarten. Responding to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry, the Brotherhood argued that solutions include cross-cultural training for staff and simpler enrolment processes.
Read our Submission to the Inquiry into Early Childhood Engagement of CALD Communities (PDF, 497 KB)
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RESEARCH PRACTICE Embracing experiences of colleagues who live with disability or mental illness
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Our Inclusive Communities team recognises that lived experience is a rich form of research evidence. The team includes members who live with disability or mental illness and are supported and involved in all stages of research from writing grant applications and project proposals to collecting data and reporting results.
Download the presentation by Mutsumi Karasaki, Jasmine Ozge, Dave Peters and Malita Allan, Transforming research: embedding lived experiences in applied research (PDF, 317 KB)
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PODCAST A lasting impact: child poverty reforms in New Zealand
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This Brotherhood Talks podcast examines major reforms in New Zealand which aim to lower the number of children who live in poverty.
Dr Michael Fletcher, from the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, says while there are no guarantees, these measures are ‘likely to lead to lasting change'.
His analysis is followed by a panel discussion led by Professor Shelley Mallett, head of the Brotherhood’s Research and Policy Centre.
Other panellists are Professor Cindy Kiro, University of Auckland; Brian Howe, former Australian deputy prime minister, and Andi Sebastian, Council for Single Mothers and their Children.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify, and online https://bit.ly/2Q1vpTL
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