ArticleThe Australian journal of social issues2022
Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start): Urgent call to action to address crisis in infant removals.
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- Contact with child protection services during pregnancy: a cross-sectional study using the eLIXIR Born in South London, UK maternity-child data linkage.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Unveiling injustice: Disrupting child removal policies and upholding breastfeeding: An emancipatory framework.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2025Article
- Separation at birth due to safeguarding concerns: Using reproductive justice theory to re-think the role of midwives.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2025Article
- Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of mothers at risk of repeat care proceedings and preventing care entry: a realist evaluation.Child protection and practice · 2025Article
- Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies: protocol for developmental evaluation of a comprehensive culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed, continuity of care(r) model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Understanding the Wellbeing Needs of First Nations Children in Out-of-Home Care in Australia: A Comprehensive Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Complex Trauma and Strengths Questionnaire: psychometric evaluation.Australian journal of psychology · 2024Article
- Infant and Pre-birth Involvement With Child Protection Across Australia.Child maltreatment · 2023Article
- Patterns of Health and Health Service Use in a Prospective Cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Aged 5-9 Years Living in Urban, Regional and Remote Areas of South Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Case conceptualization in child welfare: an underused resource to improve child, family, and provider outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence in Mental Health Settings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start): Urgent call to action to address crisis in infant removals.The Australian journal of social issues · 2022Article
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Abstract
Reducing the rate of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care (OOHC) is a key Closing the Gap target committed to by all Australian governments. Current strategies are failing. The "gap" is widening, with the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in OOHC at 30 June 2020 being 11 times that of non-Indigenous children. Approximately, one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children entering OOHC each year are younger than one year. These figures represent compounding intergenerational trauma and institutional harm to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities. This article outlines systemic failures to address the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents during pregnancy and following birth, causing cumulative harm and trauma to families, communities and cultures. Major reform to child and family notification and service systems, and significant investment to address this crisis, is urgently needed. The Family Matters Building Blocks and five elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (Prevention, Participation, Partnership, Placement and Connection) provide a transformative foundation to address historical, institutional, well-being and socioeconomic drivers of current catastrophic trajectories. The time for action is now.
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