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A Quinns Rocks family who became the 1000th family to sign up for the ORIGINS Project is excited to be contributing to such ground-breaking research.
A collaboration between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Joondalup Health Campus is poised to be a game-changer for early childhood development.
New research by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found children who attend playgroups achieve better early primary school outcomes.
National Playgroup Week, the annual event run by Playgroup Australia, will take place across the country from 20 March to 27 March.
The national report released today from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) shows that in 2015, most children in Australia were on track.
Evaluating Early Childhood Education and Care
The Early Human Capability Index is a holistic measure intended to capture early child development across diverse cultures and contexts.
This project provides guidance to help school leaders review the evidence for different programs, as well as a review of universal, evidence-based pre-school and school-based social and emotional learning programs available in Australia.
The mental health and wellbeing of young people has important consequences for students and society. Schools are a logical environment for management and early intervention of wellbeing, mental health and engagement with school. Interventions aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing in education systems requires knowledge of how wellbeing is clustered at a school level. Cluster-randomised trials, and regression analyses of such data also require knowledge of clustering.
Trans youth are at high risk of mental health difficulties and negative life events. Strong parental support is highly protective however there is little understanding of what factors facilitate the process of parental understanding and acceptance of a child’s gender identity.