Synopsis: Homelessness poses a grave and largely preventable challenge. Children and adolescents who are at risk of or who experience homelessness face major adversities that place their safety, health, and opportunities for growth and development at risk across the life course. The HOME consortium is bringing together a suite of population-based longitudinal cohort studies to define pathways to and out of homelessness, from childhood through to adulthood. This seminar will present our preliminary findings and how this new and innovative consortium is enabling us to gather critical data to prevent and respond to child and adolescent homelessness.
Questions this seminar will address:
- What we currently understand about the determinants of homelessness for children and adolescents.
- What we don’t know about the determinants and the establishment of the HOME Consortium.
- How we can better inform health and social policy to address homelessness.
Speakers: Associate Professor Jess Heerde
Jess Heerde is an Associate Professor and National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Based at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Associate Professor Jess Heerde runs a multi-disciplinary research program on the health of Australia’s homeless children and adolescents. Funded by an NHMRC Investigator Grant (IG), A/Prof Heerde is examining (i) prevention of homelessness by defining pathways into and out of homelessness using population-based longitudinal cohort data and (ii) health and mortality following contact with the homelessness service system in Australia using linked administrative health and homelessness data. She is leading the development of the HOME Consortium.
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Advancing Adolescent Health in the Asia Pacific: A virtual community to share knowledge and support collaboration
Despite one in two of the world’s adolescents living in the Asia-Pacific region, adolescent health is a relatively new field of endeavour in Australia as well as the region. It is a field that spans policy makers from multiple sectors, researchers from different disciplines, and practitioners working in health services, schools and communities and encompasses a multitude of health topics and concerns. Despite this, there are few opportunities to come together to share, showcase and build capacity to improve adolescent health and wellbeing in the region.
This seminar series aims to provide opportunities for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, implementers, young advocates – indeed, anyone interested in the health and wellbeing of adolescents – to enhance their understanding of adolescent health and wellbeing, with a focus on research.
This series is supported by the Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health. Led by a team at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, it brings together leading Australian research groups including the University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of South Australia, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
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