Community Focused Programs
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Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BBBS) is an established organisation, in Australia, Canada and the United States, that provides mentoring support to vulnerable young people.
The community-based BBBS program matches a young person (Little) with an older volunteer (Big) who...
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Communities for Children (CfC) is a strategy that encourages healthy community environments for disadvantaged children. It is an initiative of the Federal Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and is...
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A research partnership between Deakin University and CTC Ltd. is developing and testing an intervention to check retailer compliance with minimum age laws for alcohol sales. Purchase attempts are monitored for a young person who looks to be under the legal...
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Compliance checks and enforcement of legislation banning sales to young people under age 18 can reduce smoking prevalence in this group. Compliance checks involve a young person that appears to be under the legal age seeking to purchase tobacco products from...
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A new social marketing intervention is being developed and trialled in a partnership between Deakin University and CTC Ltd. The intervention has been designed using an evidence-based behaviour change approach called the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The social...