A new partnership between Flinders Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) and AnglicareSA aims to find a range of solutions that will help South Australian children and families using AnglicareSA services.

SWIRLS has been engaged to drive research programs focused on using evidence and lived experience that will create innovative ways to address social problems affecting individuals and communities.

“We are working with AnglicareSA to co-design, implement, and evaluate a practice framework that guides the work of supporting young people leaving the formal care system and in family restoration practices,” says Professor Sarah Wendt, Director of SWIRLS.

AnglicareSA CEO Peter Sandeman says the investment in evidence-based research enables his organisation to deliver improved services: “It will create long-term, sustainable change for those experiencing disadvantage, now and into the future.”

The SWIRLS team is also working with other human service providers to apply research in developing culturally responsive services for the wellbeing and safety of Aboriginal children and families (with Kornar Winmil Yunti Aboriginal Family Services), and exploring the housing and support needs of young women who experience violence (with Housing SA).