Program 3

Innovation and Evaluation of Children's Services
Lead by: Professor Glenda MacNaughton

Developing collaborative, research-based approaches to services for children and their families is a cornerstone of this area of the CEIEC’s research and project work. Specific projects have been driven by issues and questions that arise from local, state and national service providers and the approaches taken to each project differs according to the specific needs of the initiator. Overall we believe that it is important to use a capacity-building, strengths-based approach to such projects especially in small, not-for-profit organizations that need to rely on a small pool of people to drive organizational development and change. For this reason, we regularly draw on two complimentary approaches to framing our innovation and evaluation projects: collaborative action-learning and appreciative inquiry.

Projects within this program include:

Completed Projects

• Learning and growing respectfully together: Kimberley and Pilbara Children's Services Association strategic planning
• Docklands Centre for Innovation and Learning in Early Childhood: Innovation in service delivery project
• A literature review of Australian and international research studies on associations between non-parental care and outcomes for children
• Strategic review of early childhood services

Publications

Other publications linked to this program

Postgraduate projects linked to Program 3

Hallowell, L. The effectiveness of an educational play therapy intervention in an MRI unit. (Masters by Research)

Sheard, H. (2005). History of infant welfare centres in Victoria. Unpublished Masters Thesis. University of Melbourne, Australia.

Knowledge transfer activities linked to Program 3

Smith, K. (2005). City of Port Phillip Children and Family Services Quality Review - Expert panel member.