Intensive Family-Based Service/ Step-down Caseworker
Community Services, 2012—in progress
This project is evaluating four new IFBS services, which were developed through the Keep Them Safe initiative and are being delivered by Aboriginal non-government organisations across NSW. The evaluation will measure whether the services have an impact on the number of reported child protection concerns or placements in out-of-home care for children and young people in participating families. The process component of the evaluation will identify how the services could be more effectively delivered to meet the needs of families and other stakeholders. 

NSW Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Training Program
NSW Health, 2012—in progress
ARTD is undertaking an evaluation of the Aboriginal Mental Health Worker Training Program, which is providing both on-site workplace training and tertiary education for selected Aboriginal people. The evaluation is consulting widely with Aboriginal stakeholders and program participants and the research methodology includes site visits and interviews. NHMRC ethics approval is being sought for the evaluation. It will conclude in June 2012. 

Two Streams Together
Aboriginal Affairs NSW, 2012—in progress
The Two Streams Together program is a small education project for Aboriginal young people, provided through a partnership between Greenacres Disability Services and Shoalhaven High School in Nowra. The project has been operating for five years and aims to increase the retention of Aboriginal young people in high school and ultimately improve their opportunities for further training and employment. ARTD visited the program to talk with staff and students and will draw on monitoring data to review the impact of the program. 

NSW Aboriginal consultation child protection model—Protecting Aboriginal Children Together
Community Services, NSW Department of Family and Community Services, 2011
The project involved workshops and other consultation with community and government stakeholders about how a model of child protection work involving shared decision-making between community and government might operate. Based on this stakeholder input we developed a service model for trial in two NSW communities in 2011–2014. The project included detailed cost modelling and the development of service guidelines. 

Aboriginal women with co-morbid Drug and Alcohol and Mental Health problems
Drug Health Services RPAH, 2010
The South Coast Medical Service Aboriginal Corporation (SCMSAC) undertook interviews with Aboriginal women living in the South Coast and Far South Coast, New South Wales, who are experiencing both drug and alcohol and mental health problems; interviews were also conducted with the women’s families and with service providers. The interviews were to be used to inform service delivery in their area. ARTD was commissioned by the University of Sydney to code and analyse the interview transcripts. The deliverable was a detailed report of interview themes, which included the women’s and their families’ experiences of living with their co-morbidity, their experiences with co-morbidity services, and how these services could be improved. The final report also explored service providers’ experiences in delivering these services.

Northern Territory Emergency Response
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2010
The NTER is a complex intervention across remote communities with multiple measures, and two governments and numerous agencies involved. The project developed options for program logic driven evaluation of the various measures and assessed the evidence base to underpin the likely effectiveness of the measures. ARTD, with Westwood Spice, developed program logics as a basis for whole of government evaluation of the initiative, including identifying key themes through document review, synthesis of supporting evidence, a series of consultations with stakeholders in Commonwealth and Northern Territory Government agencies, and a set of evolving issues papers. The program logics will inform future evaluation and monitoring. 

Two Ways Together
Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Human Services NSW, 2007
Two Ways Together is a statement of broad strategic goals for NSW from 2003–2012 for improving the lives of Aboriginal people, working in partnership with the Aboriginal community. ARTD designed the monitoring and evaluation framework in consultation with stakeholders. We also facilitated the development of eight regional plans to implement Two Ways Together.