Our Citations & References

Doug and Jodie’s work is well respected by their peers, locally and internationally. This is reflected in the interest in published reports and conference presentations, and in their work being widely cited.

Aged Care & Ageing


  • Public Domain Reports & Submissions


    • Faircloth D (Aug 2014). Wheatbelt Aboriginal Aged Care Framework.  Wheatbelt Development Commission, Western Australia Country Health Service, Royalties for Regions, Regional Development Australia (Wheatbelt), South West WA Medicare Local.  Available at  https://www.wheatbelt.wa.gov.au/files/5914/9904/4672/Aboriginal_Framework_Reworked_Report_Final_250814.pdf

    • Faircloth D & McNair J (2010).  A Sustainable Model for Regional and Rural Aged Care Services.  Tasmania Residential Aged Care Collective (TRACC)

    • Faircloth D & McNair J (2012).  Central East Aged Care Regional Solutions Report.  Regional Development Australia (Wheatbelt) & Wheatbelt Development Commission 

    • Faircloth D & McNair J (2013).  Wheatbelt Aged Support and Care Solutions.  Wheatbelt Development Commission, Western Australia Country Health Service, Royalties for Regions, Regional Development Australia (Wheatbelt), & South West WA  Medicare Local

    • Faircloth D & Sullivan B (2014).  Statewide Ageing in the Bush.  WA Regional Development Council

    • Faircloth D & Sullivan B (August 2019).  Older Persons Services and Accommodation. Rural Councils Victoria.  Available at https://media.ruralcouncilsvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/26083812/RCV-Older-Persons-Project-Report-FINAL.pdf

  • Citations


    • Aged and Community Services Australia (2015).  Alternative models for delivering regional, rural and remote aged care services in remote communities:  a history.  

    • Aged Care Guide (2015).  “$20 million to support WA’s regional aged care” news.agedcareguide.com.au

    • Government of Western Australia (2015). “$20 million to support regional aged care”

    • Great Southern Development Commission (2015).  2014-2015 Annual Report of the Great Southern Development Commission.  


    • WA Department of Regional Development (2015). “Boost for regional aged care” (2015, September). In Your Region, Ed 16, p 7.  

    • Wheatbelt Development Commission (2014). www.wheatbelt.wa.gov.au/our-projects/aged-care/

  • Presentations


    • Faircloth D (2010, September 21). Developing a sustainable model of rural and regional aged care services. Aged and Community Services Australia National Conference, Hobart


    • Faircloth D (2012, March 29). Developing a Sustainable Model of Rural and Regional Aged Care Services; Wheatbelt Conference “Working Together for Regional Advantage” (RDA Wheatbelt and the Wheatbelt Development Commission), York WA.


    • Faircloth D (2012, June 22).  Developing a Sustainable Model of Rural and Regional Aged Care Services. Aged and Community Services State Conference, Victoria.


    • Faircloth D (2014, Sept 17).  The Impact of an Ageing Population: Opportunities, Challenges.  CY O’Connor Institute,  Northam WA


    • Faircloth D (2014, Sept 18).  Small Scale Aged Care Solutions.  Western Australian Country Health Service & Wheatbelt Development Commission Forum,  Perth WA.


    • Faircloth D (2016, April 14).  An Integrated Model of Aged Care.  The Retirement Villages Association of New Zealand Bi-Annual Conference, Auckland NZ.


    • Faircloth D (2018, September 18). Regional Opportunities: Aged Care, Disability and Carer Reforms.  Australian Regional Development Conference: Uncovering Regional Possibilities, Tweed Heads.


    • Faircloth D (2018, October 5).  AgeingWell.  Rural Australia Community Forum, Goulburn.   

    • Faircloth D (2019, April 17).  Research Briefing.   Rural Councils Victoria Mayoral, Councillor and CEO Forum, Melbourne.


    • Faircloth D & Sullivan B (2021, May 27).  Older Persons Services & Accommodation Project Presentation.  Rural Councils Victoria, Mitchelton Victoria.


    • Faircloth D (2022, March 29).  Feasibility Study: Provision of Aged and Disability Care. Pingelly Aged Care Forum, Pingelly  WA.


    • Faircloth D & Sullivan B (2014, October 14). Developing An Integrated Aged Care Solution in Regional Australia – Opportunities and Challenges of a Rapidly Ageing Population. Australian Regional Development Conference, Albury.





    • Purtell M & Faircloth D (2015, November 14). Consumer Purchase of Home Care. LASA Victoria Forum, Melbourne.

Child, Youth & Family Services


  • Public Domain Reports & Submissions

    • Faircloth D, McNair J (2016).  Therapeutic Residential Care System Development:  System Design.  Available at http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/381892/System-Design-Redacted-211016-accessible.pdf 

    • Holmes A, Faircloth D & Streatfeild K (2021). Submission to VRCMH, 2019 to Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System concluding in 2021

    • McNair J (2017).  Arcadia Therapeutic Youth Support Services Evaluation. Available at https://www.tascomfund.org/publications/reports-and-evaluations

  • Citations

    • Anglin J (2014). “Creating a System of Quality Therapeutic Residential Care” presentation at Association of Researchers of Study and Research Centres on Children and Adolescents (NECA), 27/11/14

    • Anglin J (2015). “Building a Trauma-Informed Organisation” presentation at Being Trauma Informed in the Social Service Sector, 20/10/15

    • Anglin J (2015). Towards an Understanding of Therapeutic Residential Care with Children and Adolescents. Developing Practice, 2015:41

    • Bath H & Smith B (2015). “Practice Challenges in the Shift to Therapeutic Residential Care” Developing Practice, 2015:41

    • Berry Street (2014).  Submission in response to Commission for Children and Young People Own Motion:  Inquiry into the adequacy of the provision of services to children and young people who have been subjected to sexual exploitation or sexual abuse whilst residing in residential care (unpublished), Berry Street, Melbourne

    • Campo M & Commerford J (2016). Supporting young people leaving out-of-home care (CFCA Paper No. 41). Child Family Community Australia information exchange, Australian Institute of Family Studies.

    • CREATE Foundation (2013).  Submission to the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry:  Response to discussion paper (unpublished), CREATE Foundation, Albion, Queensland

    • Department of Human Service, Victoria (2012).  Program requirements for the delivery of therapeutic residential care in Victoria, DHS, Melbourne

    • Downey L, Jago  J & Poppi S (2015).  The Spiral to Recovery: An Australian Model for Therapeutic Residential Care Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2015

    • Encompass Family & Community, PeakCare Queensland & Paul Testro Consultancy Services (2015).  Final Report: Stage One (Development of a proposed trauma – informed  therapeutic framework for residential care), Queensland

    • Jones G & Loch E (2015). What we have learnt about Therapeutic Residential Care:  It’s more than just ‘good resi’. Developing Practice, 2015:41

    • Kenny K, Fernandez E & Spangaro J (2021).  Relationship-Based Practice in Therapeutic Residential Care: A Double-Edged Sword British Journal of Social Work 00, 1–19 doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab018 

    • Loch E (2018).  What works in therapeutic residential care; The Australian Childhood Foundation 2018 ; https://professionals.childhood.org.au/prosody/2018/08/what-works-in-therapeutic-residential-care/ accessed Oct 2022

    • MacKillop Family Services (2015), A guide to developing and implementing a senior practitioner role in Specialist Homelessness Service organisations:  A project in the Workforce Development Fund for the Homelessness Sector Development Project, a partnership between Domestic Violence NSW, Yfoundations and Homelessness NSW, Sydney

    • McHugh M (2013).  Projected Downstream Savings to Governments: Foster Care Integrated Model, University of NSW:  Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney

    • McKinnon M (2015). Pillars of Practice:  A framework for embedding the whole organisation in therapeutic practice. Developing Practice, 2015:41

    • McLean S (2018).  Therapeutic Residential Care: An update on current issues in Australia Australian Institute of Family Studies; CFCA Paper No 49

    • McLean S, Price-Robertson R & Robinson E (2011). Therapeutic residential care in Australia:  Taking stock and looking forward. Australian Institute of Family Studies, NCPC Issues No 35

    • McNamara P (20136).  Therapeutic residential services in Victoria, Australia:  Toward healing trauma. presentation at International Association for Outcomes-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children’s Services, 13/9/13

    • Mendes P, Baidawi S & Snow PC (2014). Good Practice in Reducing the Over-Representation of Care Leavers in the Youth Justice System. Leaving Care and Youth Justice – Phase Three Report.  Melbourne: Monash University

    • Nowell C (2016). “Give Every Child in Out of Home Care High-Quality Therapeutic Placements” blog 19/2/16, http://vcoss.org.au/blog/give-every-child-in-out-of-home-care-high-quality-therapeutic-placements/, accessed 18/7/16

    • PeakCare Queensland, Encompass Family & Community Paul Testro Consultancy Services (2015). Development of a proposed trauma-informed therapeutic framework for residential care:  Stage One Final Report.

    • Quantum Consulting Australia (2019).  Evaluation of the Kath French Secure Care Centre.  Department of Communities WA, pp 167-8

    • The Salvation Army Australia (2014).  Submission to the Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Out of Home Care (unpublished)

    • Tucci J & Mitchell J (2013).  Submission to ACT Out of Home Care Issues Paper (unpublished), Australian Childhood Foundation, Melbourne

    • Urbanová M, Minster S, Cording J & Tamariki O (2020). Therapeutic Residential Care: Evidence Brief, Wellington, New Zealand: Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children.

    • Victorian State Government (2015). Victorian Government Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Out of Home Care (unpublished), Victorian State Government, Melbourne

    • Wanstall C, Pocock J & Jones A (2014).  Submission to Senate Inquiry Out of Home Care (unpublished), Berry Street, Melbourne

    • Whittaker J, del Valle JF, Holmes L (eds) (2014).  Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth:  Developing evidence-based international practice, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London

    • Whittaker J, Holmes L, del Valle JF & James S (eds) (2023).  Revitalising Residential Care for Children and Youth:  Cross-National Trends and Challenges.  OUP, London

  • Presentations


    • Faircloth D & McNair J (2023, June 14). National Data Review of First Nations Children in Out of Home Care [Conference presentation]. NSW Child, Family and Community Peak Aboriginal Corporation (AbSec) Healing Our Sector Conference, Sydney, NSW

    • Faircloth D (2022, November 23-25).  Residential Out of Home Care: Trauma, Complexity, Failing Up through a system that traumatises. Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) National Congress:  Rights and responsibilities: challenges and opportunities for reform, Adelaide.

    • Holmes A, Melrose C & Faircloth D (2022, August 22). Presentation title.  International Childhood Trauma Conference, Melbourne.

    • Cooper J & Faircloth D (2019, June 24).  Improving outcomes for vulnerable adolescents who have experienced trauma:  A Tasmanian study. National Child Protection Conference, Brisbane.

    • Faircloth D (2017, September 8).  Measuring Change – Promoting Healing.  International Association for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children’s Services (iaOBERfcs) International Conference: New Perspectives for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services, Hong Kong.

    • Faircloth D & McNair J (2015, February 9).  Therapeutic Residential Care data and practice insights from The Salvation Army Tasmania.  National Therapeutic Care Workshop, Hobart 


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