The latest Policy Brief, ‘Place-based approaches to supporting children and families’, is now available.

“Families are often faced with a range of different, complex health and psychosocial problems. Place-based approaches aim to address these complex problems by focusing on the social and physical environment of a community and on better integrated and more accessible service systems, rather than focusing principally on the problems faced by individuals…By using a community engagement approach to address complex problems, a place-based approach seeks to make families and communities more engaged, connected and resilient…”

Read the full issue:

Policy Brief, Issue 23 (December 2011)

Past editions and references are available from the Policy Brief archives page.