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• Research report STEP into residential care: a training program evaluation

  By Kemran Mestan and Janet Stanley 2006

  This report is an evaluation of the Scheme for Training and Educating People (STEP) residential care program.

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• Research report The Brotherhood's Social Barometer: challenges facing Australian youth

  By Martina Boese and Rosanna Scutella 2006

  This second issue of the Social Barometer examines how well equipped Australians are in successfully navigating the transition from childhood to adulthood and from school to work in a rapidly changing world.

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• Research report Raising young children in Greater Dandenong: an initial needs study for the Communities for Children program

  By Janet Stanley, Nina Bailey, Helen Ansems, Martina Boese and Jill Webb 2006

  This small study documented the needs of families with young children in Dandenong.

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• Policy submission Submission to the Australian Fair Pay Commission

  July 2006

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• Research report Risk and reality: access to general insurance for people on low incomes

  By Genevieve Sheehan and Gordon Renouf 2006

  The authors investigated the reasons that many low-income and other excluded people are uninsured.

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• Research report To their credit: evaluating an experiment with personal loans for people on low incomes

  By Rosanna Scutella and Genevieve Sheehan 2006

  This study evaluates the Brotherhood of St. Laurence and Community Sector Banking’s personal loan pilot.

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• Research report 'I have had a past and I suppose I have a future, but ... ' : a report to the Aged and Community Care Team

  By Karl Nunkoosing and Kay Cook 2006

  Two researchers from Deakin University explored ageing in Melbourne, through biographical interviews with twelve older or frail people who were clients of the Brotherhood's aged and community care services.

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• Policy submission Corporate social responsibility: supplementary material submitted to the Australian Government Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee

  February 2006

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• Research report A positive influence: equipping parents to support young people's career transitions

  By Lois Bedson and Daniel Perkins 2006

  This is the final evaluation of PACTS (Parents As Career Transition Supports).

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• Research report Innovative community responses in overcoming barriers to unemployment

  By Stephen Ziguras and Jacinda Kleidon 2005

  This report, prepared for the Department of Victorian Communities, comprises four case studies on local innovative approaches to employment support in disadvantaged communities.

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