Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in disability support services project: A collation of systematic reviews
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DescriptionThe aim of the project was to undertake a series of systematic reviews which offer a whole-of-system insight and will benefit government, agencies, the disability sector, researchers and communities to understand the complex issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with disability, their families and communities. This project was funded by the National Disability Research Special Account.
This report is a collation of the project outcomes. It synthesises the published literature on how First Nations people in Australia understand and experience disability, and on promising practice in disability support services for Indigenous people internationally, in order to inform cultural safety in Australian disability services. This report comprises one systematic review and two systematic scoping reviews. The topics of these three reviews are as follows:
- Experiences and conceptualisations of disability among First Nations peoples of Australia and the implications for disability services;
- Characteristics of international approaches which address the needs of Indigenous people with disability in the justice system;
- International models of social care for Indigenous peoples.
These reviews used best-practice systematic and scoping review principles and methods, and were underpinned by an Indigenous research methodology. Across the three reviews, we screened 5,008 sources. In total, 61 sources met inclusion criteria in the three reviews and were included in the analysis.
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Regions in scopeAustralia
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Funding entityAustralian Government Department of Social Services
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Research/evaluation entityAustralian National University
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StatusCompleted
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Start date2021
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End date2021
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Released to publicYes
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CategoriesMental health, Social and emotional wellbeing