Impact pathway link Evidence Evidence Rating Community empowerment Successful Aboriginal community organisations empower their communities by skills and confidence, setting expectations, and supporting enables an increase in building people’s people to meet them; and enabling people to take on new responsibilities and parenting skill and achieve goals (). confidence. Parenting skill and Co-parenting competition can be reduced with preventative parenting programs, improving child adjustment problems by age 3 (). confidence is important in coping positively with stress. Positive coping strategies Alcohol and other drug use can be a coping strategy for parents and carers who experience chronic stress, and is a common factor in child protection are integral to a safe child investigations of infants (). environment. Maternal substance abuse is associated with increased severity of neglect (). Substance-abusing mothers have often reported experiencing a high level of psychological distress in the parenting role that is, in turn associated with compromised parenting (). What interventions impact these factors? Impact pathway Effective intervention Outcomes Evidence link Rating Community Family Wellbeing Program Increased personal empowerment empowerment Empowerment and personal development of Aboriginal Identification of community and Torres Strait Islander people through people issues, values, goals and areas
Impact pathway link Evidence Evidence Rating Community empowerment enables an increase in parenting skill and confidence. Successful Aboriginal community organisations empower their communities by building people’s skills and confidence, setting expectations, and supporting people to meet them; and enabling people to take on new responsibilities and achieve goals (). Parenting skill and confidence is important in coping positively with stress. Co-parenting competition can be reduced with preventative parenting programs, improving child adjustment problems by age 3 (). Positive coping strategies are integral to a safe child environment. Alcohol and other drug use can be a coping strategy for parents and carers who experience chronic stress, and is a common factor in child protection investigations of infants (). Maternal substance abuse is associated with increased severity of neglect (). Substance-abusing mothers have often reported experiencing a high level of psychological distress in the parenting role that is, in turn associated with compromised parenting (). What interventions impact these factors? Impact pathway link Effective intervention Outcomes Evidence Rating Community empowerment Family Wellbeing Program Empowerment and personal development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through people Increased personal empowerment Identification of community issues, values, goals and areas