I CaRe WA - Indigenous Child Removals WA
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Indigenous Epidemiology and Health Unit Head
Professor Sandra Eades
Project Details
The overall aims of the project were to identify factors that helped reduce the number of Aboriginal children going into out-of-home care and ways to better support families at risk, children in care and kinship carers. The project includes analysis of linked administrative data (the linked data component) and interviews, focus groups and a questionnaire (the qualitative component).
The project aimed to provide detailed contemporary data about contact with Aboriginal children in Western Australia and the child protection system (focusing on clustering within families and geographical areas), identify the intergenerational health predictors of children and families before entering out-of-home care and health outcomes of the children before and after entering care.
The project also aimed to explore the views and perspectives of Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal primary care providers on ways to better support families at risk of having their children removed and kinship carers, ways to increase kinship carer arrangements and the experiences of kinship carers of providing out-of-home care to Aboriginal children.
Researchers
Professor Sandra Eades - Indigenous Epidemiology and Health Unit Head
Associate Professor Richard Chenhall - Associate Professor Medical Anthropology
Dr Alison Gibberd - Research Fellow
Dr Lina Gubhaju - Research Fellow
Dr Bridgette McNamara - Senior Research Fellow
Dr Koen Simons - Research Fellow
Professor Julie Simpson - Professor in Biostatistics
Dr Robyn Williams - Senior Research Fellow (WA-based)
Dr Jocelyn Jones - Senior Research Fellow (WA-based)
Ben Harrap - PhD Candidate
Funding
NHMRC Project Grant [GNT1162968 2019-2022] - Predicting and preventing child removals and optimising the child protection system for Aboriginal children in partnership with Aboriginal communities and health services.