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The following publications are no longer available in hard copy, but are available for downloading in PDF format.
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Building Cultures of Respect and Non-Violence
A review of literature concerning adult learning and violence prevention programs with men. Prepared by Dr Sue Dyson and Dr Michael Flood for the AFL Respect & Responsibility Program.
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Refugee Resettlement in Regional and Rural Victoria: A report on impacts and policy issues
What are the challenges and opportunities as more new arrivals settle in rural and regional Victoria?
This report documents contemporary trends in rural and regional settlement, looks at the findings of recent evaluations of national and international experience, and proposes some key policy directions for the future.
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Bridging the Digital Divide Report 2007
Bridging the Digital Divide is a Youth Action Project and an initiative of the Inspire Foundation that aims to increase social connectedness and civic engagement as a means of promoting mental health and wellbeing amongst young people aged 16-25 from some of Australia’s most under-served communities.
This Report is the result of an extensive research and community consultation phase exploring key concepts around the role Information Communication Technology (ICT) play in young people’s development and social relationships.
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Evaluating the Mental Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Community-Based Festivals: Awakenings Festival and Braybrook’s Big Day Out
This report examines the impacts of community-based festivals on mental health and wellbeing from a population health perspective, through evaluation of two Victorian festivals - the Awakenings Festival and Braybrook's Big Day Out.
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Flashpoints & Signposts: Pathways to success and wellbeing for Australia’s young people
By Richard Eckersley, Ani Wierenga and Johanna Wyn
December 2005
Perceptions of young people's health and wellbeing vary greatly, reflecting differences between disciplines, ideologies and generations. Young people are seen to be resilient, adaptable and doing well and, at the same time, experiencing increased rates of some important mental and physical health problems.
This project suggests a need for a greater focus in both research and policy on issues including: the 'big picture' of the broad social changes reshaping life today; holistic approaches to health and wellbeing; and consideration of the social and cultural resources, as well as the material and economic resources, that impact on wellbeing.
A project by Australia 21 and the Australian Youth Research Centre, funded and supported by VicHealth
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Train Stations as Places for Community Wellbeing
Train stations are a key public space and piece of infrastructure in a community. They are vital to many people to enable them to engage in work and social commitments. For young people and those without cars they can be essential in reducing their social isolation and ability to maintain community links. Unfortunately for many people they are also places mixed with feelings of fear and frustration.
In 2006 VicHealth commissioned the development of a scoping paper focusing on existing arts practice designed to develop railway stations as community hubs.
The document investigates the possibility of railway stations becoming places that are inclusive, safe, facilitate social inclusion and cohesion and contribute to the development of strong communities.
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Young People and Technology Report
VicHealth commissioned this report to provide an overview of the role of ICTs on young people’s social relations, to provide a framework for understanding the ways in which ICTs impact on their health and wellbeing, and to recommend possible initiatives within the Mental Health Promotion Framework.
The report was prepared by Johanna Wyn & Hernán Cuervo, with Dan Woodman & Helen Stokes, Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne.
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Review of Links Between Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Related Interpersonal Violence
Australia has a large and well-established alcohol industry, with a burgeoning international export trade, especially in beer and wine. Alcohol consumption contributes significantly to the pleasure of many social occasions in this country. On the other hand, it also has significant social harms and significant mortality and morbidity associated with alcohol misuse and abuse, which impacts on many Australian families and individuals. It is timely to investigate how these two phenomena are related and how to affect the right balance between these two facts and to reduce alcohol-related interpersonal harms.
This review examines the links between alcohol misuse and inter-personal violence, and evidence-based interventions to address inter-personal violence related to alcohol misuse.
Angela Taft & Liesje Toomey
Mother & Child Health Research
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Promoting Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing through Participation in Economic Activities
The evaluation of these projects explores whether supporting economic participation is an effective tool for promoting mental health among young people. Among the first of their kind to explicitly link economic activity with mental health promotion, these projects provide some valuable information on good practices in this area, and explore issues of sustainability.
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Our Town: Working with Same Sex Attracted Young People in Rural Communities
Drawing on an evaluation of 12 projects, this report explores issues involved in working with rural communities to address factors affecting the mental health and wellbeing of same sex attracted young people. It discusses a range of issues involved in this work from community readiness and young people’s participation through to worker wellbeing and liaising with the media.
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Public Health, Mental Health and Violence Against Women - Scoping Report
This monograph canvasses the most recent global, national and Victorian research which examines the nature and incidence of violence against women. It also enumerates the costs of this violence, in terms of mental and physical health, and the social and economic costs borne by the whole of the community as a consequence of the combination of cultural and individual factors that give rise to violence against women. This document also takes up the challenges made by the WHO Report on Violence and Health and makes recommendations about potential areas of activity that VicHealth may wish to consider for development through the mental health promotion strategy.
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VicHealth Mental Health Promotion Evidence Review
In 2003 the Sydney Health Projects Group was commissioned to undertake a review of the literature pertaining to the VicHealth Mental Health Promotion Framework. The report provides a summary of the evidence reviewed and a discussion of the implications of the research for consideration by VicHealth.
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Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing through Community & Cultural Development: A Review of Literature focusing on Community Festivals and Celebrations
This report focuses on the impact of community celebrations on community development, health and wellbeing. The broad aim is to determine what further evidence or research is required to build present knowledge in these fields and to provide assistance in developing policy or programs related to community celebrations.
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Community Arts Practice - Literature Review
This report reviews the evidence base of the VicHealth Arts for Health Program in the light of existing Australian and international studies on similar programs. VicHealth understood that such studies had indicated that the arts, and community arts in particular, play a role in enhancing social connection, social capital, community building, personal skills and social development, all of which are important determinants of mental health and wellbeing.
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