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Sixty enthusiatic workshop participants visited the Clearinghouse at the Australian Institute of Family Studies during the April 2003 Workshop. The resources below were compiled in response to enquiries from visitors. Most are links to Web sites and/or downloadable documents. Items that are not on the Web can can be borrowed from the Institute via the inter library loan system.

• Resources in languages other than English
• Managing Money
• Work/Family Issues for Men
• Schools as Communities
• Nutrition
• Sexual assault

Resources in languages other than English

Health information

• NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
  provides information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with non English speaking communities. The NSW Department of Health funds the service, and endorses the multilingual health information published on the website. There are over 450 publications on health in a wide range of languages and a new publication is produced each month. Some multilingual resources produced by other services are also listed on this website and there are links to related websites.
• Better Health Channel
  This Victorian Government health information site has articles on a whole range of health related topics. Parts of the Better Health Channel are available in a number of community languages.

Separation and divorce

• Child Support Agency Australia
  Provides information on a wide range of topics of concern to separating parents. The fact sheets are available in the following languages: Arabic Macedonian Spanish Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Croatian, Serbian and Turkish. They also suggest that someone needing help from the Child Support Agency ring the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 13 14 50.

Payment and services information

• Centrelink
  Payment and services information in the following languages: Albanian; Amharic; Arabic; Assyrian; Auslan; Bosnian; Bulgarian | Burmese; Chinese; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dari; Dutch; English; Estonian; Farsi; Filipino; French ; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi; Hungarian; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Khmer; Korean; Lao; Latvian; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Malay; Maltese; Polish; Portuguese; Pukapuka; Pushto; Romanian ; Russian; Samoan; Serbian; Sinhalese; Slovak; Slovene; Somali; Spanish; Tamil; Thai; Tigrinya; Tongan; Turkish; Ukrainian; Urdu; Vietnamese .

Indigenous languages

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
  This site has annotated links to 180 resources for about 60 languages. About 25% of these resources are produced or published by Indigenous people. Resources include language names, maps, dictionaries, vocabularies, sounds, songs.
• Australian Indigenous Languages
  Contains information on vocabularies and wordlists, language policy and language rights, song and sound, contacts, tertiary courses and dictionaries.

Immigration information

• Department of Immigration
  Many of the information resources provided by the Department are available in different languages.

Sexual assault

See Sexual assault below.

Managing Money

• My moola: a quick guide to managing your money
  This eight-page leaflet comes from First Nations Australian Credit Union, and they are happy to send out multiple copies. their details: GPO Box 2225T, Melbourne Vic 3001. Tel: 1300 658 958 Fax: 1300 654 854 Email: firstnations@australiancu.com
• Me and my money: Practical money ideas. Tips and hints to help stretch your dollar after separation. PDF format, at http://www.csa.gov.au/publications/finsec.pdf (PDF 692K)
• Personal budgeting
  Tips on basic budgeting from a US based commercial company.

Work/Family issues for Men

Reports and articles

Online

• Fathers Want Work-Family Balance, Too
  Article in Business Week Online March 27, 2000. Smart small companies can give themselves an edge over big outfits by offering men more flexibility.

Available from the Clearinghouse collection

• Fifty families: what unreasonable hours are doing to Australians, their families and their communities
  Report by Pocock, B; van Wanrooy, B; Strazzari, S; Bridge, K, published by Australian Council of Trade Unions in 2001, makes a first analysis of just over 50 families who experience long hours or hours that are unreasonable, like very long hours, changes in time zones, irregular shift work, unpredictable hours, or combinations of these. One sectoral study covers miners.
• Researching the 'divorce roster' with women in the coal communities of Central Queensland
  This chapter by Gibson, K (In: Country women at the crossroads: perspectives on the lives of rural Australian women in the 1990s, 1994, University of New England Press) reports on the impact of the introduction of seven day rosters in coal mines in Central Queensland on family and community life.
• Implications of men's extended work hours for their personal and marital happiness
  This article by Weston, R; Qu, L; Soriano, G, in Family Matters no.61 Autumn 2002: 18-25, focuses on the direct and indirect impact of men's extended work hours on relationship well being and life satisfaction.
• When his ship comes home; the stress of the Australian seafarer's partner
  Written by Foster, D. and Capioppe, R, this article from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy v.7 Jun 1986: 75-82 explores the stress that the wives of Australian Merchant Navy men experience as a result of the seafarer's lifestyle. Difficulties that the wife and family experience due to the long absence of the seafarer are reported, as are work patterns, the effect of the lifestyle on their marriage and sexual relations.
• 'Daddy come home soon !' Intermittent father absence and the family
  In this article in the Australian Journal of Family Therapy v.4 Jan 1983: 87-90, R. Adler reports the impact on children and families of the intermittent absence, through work, of one or other parent. Some modes of adaptation are discussed.

Information and tips

• Balancing Work and Family Life : Working to Live - or - Living to Work?
  This is one of the topics addressed on The Men's Shed page. It looks at some of the issues for men in balancing work and family life, offering tips and suggestions. Other topics include Conflict and Anger Management, Men's health and wellbeing.

Schools as Communities

• More than an education: leadership for rural school-community partnerships (2002, PDF)
  A report from the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation on a project which examined the extent and nature of the contribution of rural schools to their communities' development beyond traditional forms of education of young people; investigated the ways in which the modes of leadership of the school and community leaders influence the extent and nature of the school's contribution to the community, and considered the constraints to schools being put to other uses. Case studies of rural school-community partnerships in five very different rural communities are described.
• Building Indigenous learning communities
  A 2001 discussion paper from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research in which the authors explore educational policy and program options for linking families, schools and communities (including business and government) to identify and address local needs through drawing upon local resources. The value of position the school at the centre of Indigenous communities is explained.
• Leadership from within: rural community revitalisation and the school-community partnership
  This article by S. Johns et al (Youth Studies Australia v.20 no.3 Sept 2001: 20-25) describes a school-community partnership project in Western Australia which has provided young people with increased employment opportunities, and increased self-confidence and self-esteem.

Nutrition

• Better Health Channel
  This Victorian Government health information site has a wide range of food facts articles, and recipes for healthy eating. Parts of the Better Health Channel are also available in a number of community languages.
• Dietary guidelines for Australian adults
  These revised guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council were released in June 2003.
• Dietary guidelines for children and adolescents in Australia, incorporating infant feeding guidelines for health workers
  Released by the National Health and Medical Research Council in June 2003, these guidelines focus on children and adolescents and include information on food groups and lifestyle patterns, growth references, obesity cut-off points, and the importance and management of breast feeding.
• Eating Well for Children
  The Government's web site Health Insite provides a wide range of resources with dietary information for young children from preschool to school-age.
• Food Fact Sheets
  Nutrition Australia offers scientific based facts on food, covering a wide range of topics including nutrition for children, and nutrition for teenagers.
• Recommendations for nutrition and physical activity for Australian children
  Supplement to Medical Journal of Australia v.173 Aug 2000.

Sexual assault

See also the current listing compiled by the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault

• Queensland Health
  This government site offers:
  information about state-wide services including a help line
  brochures about sexual assault
  fact sheets (in PDF format) about drugs and sexual assault; what to do if you think you have been drugged and then sexually assaulted; supporting someone who has been sexually assaulted.
• Northern Centre Against Sexual Assault (Vic)
  Provides online, multilingual information about what sexual assault is, and the effects of sexual assault.
• Zig Zag Young Women's Resource Centre, Queensland
  Zig Zag has resources for which charges apply. Their library has books, cd's, tapes, videos, etc that can be borrowed. Zig Zag is at 575 Old Cleveland Road, Camp Hill Qld 4152. Tel: 3843 1823. Email zigzag@lrv.net.au. Also available is Healing is possible, an online booklet (in PDF format) which covers myths about sexual assault, medical and health information, effects of abuse and information on counselling and support groups.
• What is sexual assault and where you can get help
  Booklets from NSW Health target specific culturally and linguistically diverse communities providing information in an accessible format. The booklets are also intended as a resource for use by sexual assault services in the promotion of their services to multicultural community organisations. Booklets are available in Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Hindi/Punjabi, Turkish, Arabic and the Khmer language. (NOT English).
• Immigrant Women's Support Service
  IWSS is a crisis and support service which provides culturally appropriate support, information, short-term counselling and referral. IWSS can supply on request leaflets which discuss the nature of sexual violence, the service provided by the IWSS Sexual Assault Program and relevant phone numbers for victims of sexual violence. Leaflets are availabe in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Farsi, Filipino, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese . There are also several conference papers on issues for women of non-English speaking background.