On PAR - Using Participatory Action Research to Improve Early Intervention

 

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank and acknowledge:

The Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs for its continued support of Participatory Action Research.

Members of the Youth Services Action Research Committee, past and present, for their contributions to advancing our understandings of PAR and for their advice and feedback in the writing of this manual.

The Reconnect, NAYSS and HOME Advice services whose Action Research reports over a period of thirteen years have provided the evidence for, and examples of, the contribution of PAR to good practice and improved outcomes.

Authors of previous Action Research resources and reports produced for Reconnect and associated programs, especially those by Suzi Quixley, Crane & Richardson, Porter Orchard, Michelle Parker, Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY), ARTD, Miimali Aboriginal Community Association, and Dean Frazer & colleagues.

Those who provided comments, case examples and input to the drafts, especially:

  • Dr Mark Brough, Director of Research, Social Work and Human Services, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
  • Anna Spencer, Jabiru Community, Youth and Children’s Services, QLD
  • Al Hines, Colony 47, TAS
  • Valentina Angelovska, St George Youth Services, NSW Peter
  • Brown, FaHCSIA, VIC
  • Steve MacKenzie, Sharon Bowen-Smith, Tracey Tiller and Rose Beatty, FaHCSIA National Office, Canberra
  • Bruce Hudson, Integrated Family and Youth Services, QLD
  • Mandy Baxter, Melbourne City Mission, VIC
  • Michelle Parker, Connect, NT
  • Connect, NT
  • Connections Cherbourg-Murgon Reconnect, QLD
  • Centre for Multicultural Youth, VIC
  • St Luke’s Anglicare, VIC
  • Mercy Reconnect, WA
  • Bridges Reconnect, QLD

About the authors

Dr Phil Crane is a Senior Lecturer in the Social Work and Human Services Program, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology. Since undertaking a Masters degree in the late 1980’s using Participatory Action Research he has provided support to a range of programs and agencies in its application, most notably Reconnect, NAYSS and the Youth Homelessness Pilot Program. He is co-author of the research report Homelessness Among Young People in Australia: Early Intervention and Prevention which informed the development of the Reconnect practice framework.

Maureen O’Regan is a social worker with over 20 years experience working with vulnerable children, teenagers and families in a range of community and institutional settings. Her practice has included Action Research, professional supervision, writing and teaching.

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