Poverty and Mental Health: Reducing Systemic Harm to Improve Wellbeing
Joint Anglicare WA and WA Association for Mental Health paper which examines the link between mental health and poverty and proposes ways to achieve economic and social justice.
WA Housing Future Fund
We have this moment in time to think beyond the current government investments in social housing and create a long-term mechanism to ensure supply of social and affordable housing for the benefit of the Western Australian community well into the future. The proposed WA Housing Future Fund model would set aside $1 billion of the state’s surplus in perpetuity, with annual returns on the fund forming a long-term funding pipeline for new social and affordable housing supply. View the WA Housing Future Fund Snapshot
Rental Affordability Snapshot
Annual report which shows how the WA rental market is changing and the implications for Western Australians living on low incomes.
Click to read 2024 Rental Affordability Snapshot
Click to read 2024 Rental Affordability Snapshot: Essential Worker Report
2023 Jobs Availability Snapshot
Anglicare Australia report examining what the labour market is like for those who lack qualifications, experience, or other employment barriers.
Reducing Poverty and Improving Child Development in WA
Joint Anglicare WA and Ngala paper which highlights the impact of poverty on child development and proposes policy and practice solutions. Reducing Poverty and Improving Child Development in WA - Snapshot
100 Families WA
Findings from a multiple-agency collaborative action research project examining the the issues faced by people living in entrenched disadvantage.
Mental Health of Children Exposed to Domestic and Family Violence
A UWA retrospective cohort study which uses police and health records to identify the mental health outcomes for children exposed to DFV in Western Australia.
Current research projects and partnerships
Young Women's Voices
Young Women's Voices (YWV) aims to document young women’s experiences of the youth justice ecosystem across Australia. The project will use an innovative ‘sensemaker’ methodology, involving young women in co-designing the study and interpreting the results. Learn more here.
Life Course Centre
The Life Course Centre is a national research centre investigating the ways in which deep and persistent disadvantage endures within families and across generations. Learn more here.
Frameworks
Recovery Framework
We aim to align our practice, service delivery and overall organisational culture with the principles of recovery. This Framework applies to and guides all staff, volunteers, students, leaders and the Board in how to embed recovery-oriented practices through all the work we do.