Management and practice in health and human service organisations
- Authors: Berends, Lynda , Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2014
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Managers' perspectives on what matters in health and human services management
- Authors: Berends, Lynda , Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Practice Reflexions Vol. 2014, no. (2014), p. 1-15
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- Description: A survey of managers from 27 community health and human services organisations highlighted perceptions of the level of importance and challenge that they attached to 20 areas of management practice. The three areas most often selected as important and challenging were budgets/financial management, service delivery, and strategic planning. When respondents were asked about the resolution of a management issue, they emphasised the importance of competent leadership and management, and attention to planning, in combination with good communication. The overall findings support the need for the development of diverse management and leadership skills in aspiring and current workforces. Initiatives to enhance management capacity in health and human services must attend to what matters to managers, to ensure they are adequately equipped for attending to the practical demands encountered in a complex and rapidly changing service environment.
"Everything effects everything else": Power, perception and hidden forms of restrictive practice in shared supported accommodation
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Manning, Debra , Glavas, Audra , Feeley, Marie
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Technical report
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- Description: Final Report to the Senior Practitioner
Evaluation of the Structured Approach to Students @ Risk Pilot Project : An initiative of the partnership between the Department of Human Services and Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in Gippsland Region
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Laming, Christopher
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Technical report
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- Description: Research report Evaluation report for the Victorian Government's Departments of Human Services and Education and Early Childhood Development
Signs of change: using the visual to challenge men's violence against women
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Laming, Christopher
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues Vol. 16, no. 1 (2013), p. 19-37
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The search for a feminism that could accommodate homeless young women
- Authors: Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Concepts and Methods of Youth Work p. 209-218
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- Description: Young women experiencing homelessness ore confronted by a range of oppressive circumstances. Their disadvantage is multilayered; they are young, they are women, they do not have access to safe, secure accommodation and they ore poor. While these young women do not consfilute a homogeneaus group, they share gendered experiences of victimisation from within their families, their peer group and their wider social networks. Their active resistance to becoming victims is displayed in many aspects of their practices and behaviours. This paper discusses some of the queries that arose in the course of examining the relevance of feminism for understanding the experience of young women's homelessness. In particular some poststructural concepts are used to question the processes of victimisation as conceptualised from a more traditional feminist framework. The paper ends by suggesting that feminist work practice might need to develop more of an understanding of these processes and what they mean in young women's experience "-'if they are to be adequately and effectively addressed.
Appealing for help : a reflection on interpellation and intertextuality in the visual narrative of an Australian welfare campaign poster
- Authors: Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Current Narratives Vol. 2009, no. 1 (2009), p.
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- Description: We know the world, our world, through stories (Turner 1988: 68). Stories in childhood, whether verbal or written, are inevitably accompanied by visual language forms. This might be the storyteller’s body or a puppet performing mime and gesture; it may be pictures in storybooks, or the endless hybrid combinations of these in film and the electronic media. Even a single photograph can perform in a narrative way: “A picture of a forest tells implicitly of trees growing from seedlings and shedding leaves; and a picture of a house implies that trees were cut for it and that its roof will soon leak. (Goodman 1981:111)” Within a story–making activity, however, the visual image is not a sole performer; it is a participant in an intertextual web of discursive forms and endless meaning-making exercises. It is a complex, fluid experience (Belova 2006). The aim of this paper is to raise some questions about how narrative processes might operate in and through visual texts designed to communicate social injustice and elicit emotional and moral response, such as social documentary photographs and fundraising campaign posters. Using the example of an Australian Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal poster, the paper reflects on how the engaged viewer might be implicated as both character and author in the resonance between the meta–narratives and personal stories from their own life–world and the meanings arising from the poster’s text. In doing so, concepts of interpellation and intertextuality help explain some of the processes which position and compel viewers to respond, and also how they contribute to identifying meanings which reach beyond commonly received readings.
Responding to family violence and preventing homelessness : what is required for effective implementation of 'safe at home' programs?
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Hurley, Jennifer
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Parity Vol. 22, no. 10 (2009), p. 40-41
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- Description: This article is a preliminary summary drawn from a review which searched Australian and international literature on the topic of safe at home initiatives. It offers a summary of the key elements identified for supporting successful implementation. The review arises from the 'SAFER' ARC linkage project, which is currently researching Victoria's integrated family violence reforms, and is being conducted through a partnership between Melbourne and Monash Universities, the Department of Justice, Victoria Police, The Office of Housing, The Department of Planning and Community Development and the Department of Human Services. The literature was drawn from social policy documents; consultancy, evaluation and survey reports; Government and peak body publications, academic research and journal articles.
Imagining Women as Homeless : Re/tracing Socially Concerned Photography
- Authors: Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2009
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- Description: This text is primarily concerned with the meanings that are produced when women become visible amongst the homeless through photographic representations. While there have always been homeless women, unlike their male counterparts, they have remained largely invisible to the public and government policy- makers. Social documentary photography has acted as one of the main avenues through which homeless women have, literally, been rendered visible. As an evidence producing technology, photography has exercised considerable influence in the construction of meaning about homelessness by employing concepts of the feminine and the masculine in various, and oppositional ways. Driven by, and implicated in complex sociocultural and political circumstances, socially concerned photographs draw on the real and the fictional to generate truth/power effects. Thus, this inquiry re/traces the representation of ?homeless woman? in a range of visual texts and ask how this construct has been discursively produced and deployed.
Breaking silences : telling stories about family photographs
- Authors: Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Vol. , no. 20 (2008), p.3-8
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- Description: This paper tells a story. It relates how a 1940s photographic portrait of a smiling young woman became a conduit for telling the story of family violence hiding behind her smile. I suggest that although sharing this memory across three generations of women in the same family played a critical role at the personal level, 40 years after the silence was broken, it has the capacity for ongoing political effects at the collective level. This paper is one of those effects.
The power of pyjamas'. Everything effects everything else: power, perception and hidden forms of restrictive practice in shared supported accommodation
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Manning, Debra , Feeley, Marie , Glavas, Audra
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: From Theory to Practice; Context in Praxis - ALARA's 8th Action Learning, Action Research and 12th Participatory Action Research 2010 World Congress Proceedings
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- Description: Since the introduction of the Disability Act 2006, there has been concerted focus on identifying, addressing and reducing restrictive interventions and compulsory treatment in disability accommodation services (DAS). This paper reflects on a participatory action research (PAR) project, funded by the Office of the Senior Practitioner and conducted in partnership with the Department of Human Services, in a rural region of Victoria, Australia. The overall goal was to improve the quality of life and dignity of people living in shared supported accommodation. A key focus was to explore less obvious forms of restrictive practice, for example household rules, dietary regimes and administrative requirements. The project adopted a partnership approach to engage with support workers in developing strategies for challenging restrictive practices at interpersonal and systemic levels. Throughout the PAR meetings participant reflections revealed how a concern with duty of care, as expressed through domestic and personal support requirements, meant staff were engaged in struggles with, and between household members over everyday life choices. In some houses, ‘putting on pyjamas’ marked a significant site of power, where care, control and resistance were enacted daily. This paper explores the research process and the guiding themes of the project: power, perception and subtle forms of restrictive practice.
Walking together for safer communities with local action supported by family violence policy reforms
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Laming, Christopher
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Reconciliation in Regional Australia: Case Studies from Gippsland Chapter 6 p. 89-107
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Beyond Foucault's subject of power: Affect and visual emergence in grass-roots social activism
- Authors: Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Culture and Visual Forms of Power. Experiencing contemporary spaces of resistance p.
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Evaluating a peer-led wellbeing programme for doctors-in-training during the COVID-19 pandemic in Victoria, Australia, using the most significant change technique
- Authors: Crinall, Karen , Ward, Madeleine , McDonald, Rebecca , Crinall, William , Aridas, James , Rolnik, Daniel
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Evaluation Journal of Australasia Vol. 22, no. 2 (2022), p. 90-107
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- Description: This article discusses the use of the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique in a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot wellbeing programme for obstetrics and gynaecology doctors-in-training introduced at a large public hospital during Melbourne, Australia’s second coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, which occurred from 7 July to 26 October 2020. The evaluation was conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology, to conform with pandemic restrictions. MSC complemented the program’s participatory principles and was chosen because it seeks to learn about participants’ perceptions of programme impacts by evaluating their stories of significant change. Stakeholders select one story exemplifying the most significant change resulting from the evaluated program. Inductive thematic analysis of all stories is combined with reasons for making the selection, to inform learnings (Dart & Davies, 2003; Tonkin et al., 2021). Nine stories of change were included in the selection. The most significant change was a more supportive workplace culture brought about by enabling basic needs to be met and breaking down hierarchical barriers. This was linked to five interconnected themes – connection, caring, communication, confidence and cooperation. The evaluation learnings are explored and reflections on remotely conducting MSC evaluation are shared. © The Author(s) 2022.
Safe at home? Housing decisions for women leaving family violence
- Authors: Diemer, Kristin , Humphreys, Cathy , Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Social Issues Vol. 52, no. 1 (2017), p. 32-47
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- Description: Internationally, domestic violence policy has shifted towards supporting women to stay at home with the perpetrator of violence excluded. However, the practical realities indicate that this is a complex arena in which the rhetoric of rights for "women and children to stay in their own home" needs to be underpinned by additional support to provide safety and protection for those choosing this option. The current study examines decision making about accommodation options and the role of civil protection orders among 138 women accessing domestic violence support services in Victoria Australia. It shines a light on the intersection between justice responses and the housing needs of women and their children leaving a violent relationship. Our findings reveal that for this sample of women, staying in their own home left them more open to breaches of intervention orders than those who re-located. In spite of the frequency of breaching, a majority of women believed that they were safer with the protective order in place. We conclude that supporting women to "stay at home" with the perpetrator removed may be a pathway to safety for only a minority of women particularly if support from police and courts is not proactive and reliable. © 2017 Australian Social Policy Association.