Neighbourhood Centre
Reports
Popular Education and Neighbourhood Centre Work, by PJ Humphreys and Assoc. Prof. Peter Westoby
This case study was published in "Community Development for Social Change" by Dave Beck and Rod Purcell. It's written by Community Development Worker PJ Humphries and Assoc. Prof. Peter Westoby and highlights Community Plus+ Neighbourhood Centres in Brisbane.
Community Connect Worker Trial Report
The Community Connect Worker program is a trial by the Department of Communities, Disability Services and Seniors in 12 Neighbourhood Centres around Queensland. Extended until June 2019, the QFCA has recently compiled this report about the trial and its effectiveness in Queensland Neighbourhood Centres.
Neighbourhood Centres: for an Experience of Community and for Action 2016
PJ Humphreys is a Community Development Worker at Community Plus. She has written an excellent Development Practice Thesis during her studies at the University of Queensland about Neighbourhood Centres and Community Development. It highlights the need for Neighbourhood Centres to re-discover their key role as social reformers - an important feature of early settlement/neighbourhood houses internationally.
Survival Approaches to Funding Agenda - 2016
Kelly Taylor is a Community Development Worker based in Brisbane. She wrote an excellent Masters dissertation while at at Deakin University on "What approaches are Neighbourhood Houses and Community Centres in Southeast Queensland taking to adapt and survive under the current funding agenda?"
Results Based Accountability Report
The Queensland Families and Communities Association (QFCA) Results Based Accountability Trial was funded by the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (DCCSDS) and designed to generate a shared understanding between DCCSDS staff and QFCA member organisations of Results Based Accountability and its application in producing an effective and practical outcome framework applicable to the work of community centres.
Resilent Community Organisations for Resilient Communities 2014
In early 2013, Charters Towers Neighbourhood Centre partnered with the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) program at Southern Cross University in order to explore the ways to enhance the viability and adaptability of Neighbourhood Centres during financially uncertain time periods. The research team, Dr Subas Dhakal and Prof. Robyn Keast, conducted a series of face-face-interviews and focus groups with staff members.
Engaging Men in Moreton Bay: Male Volunteering and Inclusiveness in Community Services
This project and evaluation was conducted by Community Development Worker Chris Mundy in 2013 with a consortium of Neighbourhood Centres in the Moreton Bay Region. The project explored the role of gender in Community Services and aimed to increase the number of men volunteering and engaging with Family Support programs.
Strengthening People and Places: the role and value of community and neighbourhood centres.
Neighbourhood Centres are on the front line of disaster recovery in Queensland. This project was commissioned by a group of Brisbane-based community and neighbourhood centres to analyse the role of these centres responding to local needs and issues including Brisbane’s flood crisis in 2011.
The participating centres were:
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Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc
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Benarrawa Community Development Association
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Communify New Farm Neighbourhood Centre
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Sherwood Neighbourhood Centre
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West End Community House
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Yeronga Flood Recovery Centre
