{"id":2658,"date":"2017-11-30T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:58:09","slug":"policy-brief-synthesising-evidence-to-inform-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2017\/11\/30\/policy-brief-synthesising-evidence-to-inform-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Brief \u2013 synthesising evidence to inform decision making"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2709\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2709\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2017\/11\/1711_compilation-v2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kym Peake, Prof. Kathryn North and Prof. Frank Oberklaid launching edition 27 of Policy Brief on 30 November 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kym Peake, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services today launched the latest edition of the Centre for Community Child Health&#8217;s publication series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/policybrief\">Policy Brief<\/a>, a resource to support the use of evidence by policy makers.<\/p>\n<p>The Policy Brief series aims to stimulate informed discussion about issues that affect children&#8217;s health, development and wellbeing. Each issue draws on current research and evidence-informed practice and explores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>why the issue is important<\/li>\n<li>what the research tells us<\/li>\n<li>the implications of the research<\/li>\n<li>considerations for policy and practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Latest edition \u2013 Using Evidence in Policy and Programs<\/h2>\n<p>Improving the health and wellbeing of children and families requires a holistic approach. An approach that is evidence-informed, rather the evidence-based, is more likely to deliver effective outcomes, particularly for vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of Policy Brief \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Awoq9m\">Using Evidence in Policy and Programs <\/a>\u2013 outlines an evidence-informed decision-making framework to enable practitioners to achieve better outcomes for children and families.<\/p>\n<p>The Policy Brief explores the concept of evidence-informed practice involving three components: evidence-based programs; evidence-based processes, and client and professional values and beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence-informed practice offers a holistic approach to addressing complex policy issues.<\/p>\n<h3>Considerations for policy and practice<\/h3>\n<div>This Policy Brief details a number of key considerations for policy and practice:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing to solely (or predominantly) rely on evidence-based programs as a means for addressing complex policy issues is likely to lead to modest benefits at best and fails to benefit certain cohorts altogether, particularly the most vulnerable.<\/li>\n<li>To achieve better outcomes for children and families, services must use an evidence-informed practice approach that involves three key components equally: evidence-based programs, evidence-based processes, and client and professional values and beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In practice, blending these three sources of information requires an evidence-informed decision-making framework.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>A framework can be used by an individual practitioner or team working with a client or family, an agency working with groups of parents or families, a network of services working with a community, or even a government department working with service networks.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Awoq9m\">Read the full edition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View all editions of Policy Brief and access the reference lists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/policybrief\">rch.org.au\/ccch\/policybrief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rch.us5.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=8a7f74329d219319b01abf842&amp;id=4e81337f6d&amp;utm_source=Policy+Brief&amp;utm_campaign=220894cd2a-CCCH_Policy_Brief_27_Nov2017&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4e81337f6d-220894cd2a-43125593\">Subscribe to the Policy Brief mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we ensure that services delivered to children and families are effective? The latest edition of Policy Brief explores the importance of using evidence in policy and programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5968],"tags":[11973,12034,5966],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-evidence-based","tag-evidence-informed","tag-policy-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}