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Discover the resources you can use to create and integrate evidence into your programs and practice to better understand the difference you are making and to deliver better outcomes for children, young people and families.
In 2023 our OPEN Symposium theme was ‘Building resilient families and thriving communities’. Our speakers covered a range of topics, sharing their innovative, evidence-informed work including in out-of-home care, early intervention, family violence, building the evidence base for First Nations Families.
Read and share reflections, news, recent research and evaluation reports from sector, national and international experience about what works to inform practice and deliver outcomes for children and families.
Find out how organisations across the sector are using, creating and integrating evidence about outcomes into their services, programs, organisational practice and systems.
The ‘We Hear YOUth Project’ objectives were to create a youth peer interviewer network to support the engagement of young people in shaping local policy, as well as designing and delivering services.
smalltalk is a collection of evidence-based parenting strategies that empower parents to enrich the home learning environment for their children from birth to school age. By enhancing their home learning environment, parents can help improve the long-term developmental outcomes for their children.
For Change Co. is a Melbourne-run social enterprise working to eliminate youth homelessness in Australia. For Change Co. trains young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness to build hospitality…
BCYF is an independent, not-for-profit community service organisation committed to achieving better outcomes for the community. They provide, develop and deliver services, where the need exists, that advance the rights…
For 148 years, VACRO has supported people in contact with the criminal justice system and their families to safely and successfully re-join their communities. They are Victoria’s oldest and only…
Jewish Care is the largest service provider for the Victorian Jewish Community delivering need-based, culturally aware and value-driven service. It stretches some of its programs to support other multicultural communities.…
Sometimes it is hard to know where to begin or the best approach to measure outcomes and integrate evidence into your program and practice. You don’t have to tackle these challenges alone! OPEN Advisory Services provide support to get you started or keep you moving in the right direction.
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