Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia

Publication

Release Date: 07 Feb 2014

Media release

AIHW

Jennifer Bowes and Rebekah Grace (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) (2014) Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 09 February 2023.

APA

Jennifer Bowes and Rebekah Grace (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). (2014). Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia. Canberra: AIHW.

MLA

Jennifer Bowes and Rebekah Grace (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia. AIHW, 2014.

Vancouver

Jennifer Bowes and Rebekah Grace (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse). Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia. Canberra: AIHW; 2014.

Harvard

Jennifer Bowes and Rebekah Grace (for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse) 2014, Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia, AIHW, Canberra.

PDF | 875Kb

Other formats

Download publication

Enter the email address where you would like the PDF sent. This address will not be used for any other purpose.

This paper provides a review of prevention and early intervention research literature on improving outcomes for Australian Indigenous children in the early childhood years. It focusses on 3 key areas of early childhood research: parenting, early childhood education, and early childhood health.

Part of Closing the Gap Clearinghouse.

ISSN: 2201-845X
ISBN: 978-1-74249-535-4
Cat. no: IHW 116
Pages: 30

Findings from this report:

Childhood inequalities mean lifelong discrepancies in health, wellbeing and achievement for Indigenous people
Parenting programs that had skills training for Indigenous parents had positive outcomes for parents and their children
Ad-hoc Indigenous programs with the assumption that it will be relevant to all Indigenous communities do not work
Positive outcomes included programs targeting particular disorders and diagnoses

Summary

This paper provides a review of prevention and early intervention research literature that is focused on improving outcomes for Australian Indigenous children in the early childhood years. For the purposes of this paper, early childhood is defined as the years from conception to school entry. The included literature was drawn from 3 key areas of early childhood research: parenting, early childhood education, and early childhood health.

PDF report table of contents

Expand

Review of early childhood parenting, education and health intervention programs for Indigenous children and families in Australia

Citation

AIHW

APA

MLA

Vancouver

Harvard

Summary

PDF report table of contents

Summary

Focus of this issues paper

Background

Justification for review of research quality

Research on parenting programs

Research on early childhood education programs

Research on health programs

Program implementation

Discussion

Conclusion

Appendix 1
Appendix 2: Early childhood years parenting program research
Appendix 3: Early childhood education program research
Appendix 4: Early childhood health intervention research with Indigenous children

AIHW

Connect with us

Feedback