{"id":1171,"date":"2020-11-10T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2020-11-11T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:58:16","slug":"improving-mental-health-and-wellbeing-for-children-from-migrant-and-refugee-backgrounds-with-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/2020\/11\/10\/improving-mental-health-and-wellbeing-for-children-from-migrant-and-refugee-backgrounds-with-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving mental health and wellbeing for children from migrant and refugee backgrounds with disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/anna.ziersch\">Associate Professor Anna Ziersch<\/a> from the Southgate Institute was recently awarded a Channel 7 Research Foundation grant to examine ways to support health and wellbeing for children from migrant and refugee backgrounds with disability.\u00a0 With colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/clemence.due\">Dr Clemence Due<\/a> (University of Adelaide, Flinders University) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/sally.robinson\">Professor Sally Robinson<\/a> (Flinders University) the team will conduct a mixed methods study of the experiences of migrant and refugee children with disability.\u00a0 The two-year study will be conducted in partnership with the Refugee Health Service, Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia, Novita and Can:do 4 Kids and community members.\u00a0 It will involve interviews with children from migrant and refugee backgrounds with disability and their families, a survey of service providers, an analysis of relevant policy, and case studies of support initiatives.\u00a0 Key outcomes will be evidence-based recommendations on ways to support mental health and wellbeing for children and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Anna Ziersch from the Southgate Institute was recently awarded a Channel 7 Research Foundation grant to examine ways to support health and wellbeing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1794,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-research","category-staff-activities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/southgate-institute-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}