Major Projects
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Jodie McNair
Come Home Come Heal Come Rest national rollout
2019 — Present
Client: Synapse Australia
Come Home Come Heal Come Rest is an advocacy, education and system change initiative, focused on improving understanding and response to brain injury and cognitive impairment in a range of contexts, including justice, mental health & disability, and family services.
Foley House Service Evaluation
2021 -2022
Client: The Salvation Army
Foley House is a therapeutic, trauma-informed long term supported accommodation for older men at risk of homelessness
Review of Placement Prevention and Reunification Services for Aboriginal children and their families
2016
Client: Victorian Department of Human Services
The review methodology emphasised the voice of Aboriginal people across Victoria, as well as examining administrative/program data sets, demographics and policy documents.
Deliverables included an investment strategy, subsequent economic analysis of the recommended investment option and a comprehensive literature review.
Therapeutic Residential Care System Development
2015 — 2016
An integrated, trauma-informed system was developed, a version of which has been progressively rolled out across NSW.
Project deliverables included:
Service model
Outcome Measures Framework
Operational Plan
Community of Practice model development plan
Evidence Guide
Evaluation of Therapeutic Residential Care Pilots
2009 — 2011
This review informed significant new investment and policy development and the state government’s decision to establish therapeutic residential care as an ongoing element within Victoria’s out-of-home-care system.
The project included development of a series of reports demonstrating a sound understanding of trauma and attachment theory and developmental needs, and their applicability and translation to an out-of-home care context.
Dr James Anglin, author of Pain, Normality and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth (Haworth, 2002), provided the following comments on the quality and impact of the evaluation:
“I want to congratulate you on an impressive evaluation report on the TRC pilots… I made the comment that the TRC initiative and this evaluation of two-year outcomes puts Australia (especially the state of Victoria) on the world map in terms of innovations in residential care. For many years Australia did not really show up in research or practice meetings regarding child and youth care or residential care for young people, but now you have important practice and research materials to share.”
With a lack of similar comprehensive evaluations of TRCs, a decade on the project continues to be referenced as a key piece of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of therapeutic residential care for children and young people nationally and internationally.
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Doug Faircloth
Doug directed and provided significant input into the following projects in his former role as managing director and principal consultant of Verso Consulting:
National and jurisdictional review of HACC transport
2014
Client: Commonwealth Department of Health
This review supported advice to the Commonwealth in development of the Commonwealth Home Support Program. Methodology included stakeholder consultation (service users, providers and contract managers), analysis of program data and literature review.
A Sustainable Model of Aged Care for Rural and Remote Australia
2009-2011
Client: Commonwealth Department of Health
This project focused on North West Tasmania to produce local results and buy-in and to develop an exemplar model. Activities included development of multiple scenario modelling for alternate aged care models in rural, regional and remote Australia with a sensitivity to relationship and impact of ageing communities on health services.
Ageing in the Bush
Initial project 2015–2016; demographic updates 2018 & 2022
Client: Western Australian State Government Department of Regional Development.
Ageing in the Bush is a comprehensive aged care and ageing plan for all regional Western Australia. Project activities included detailed assessment of national reform policies and implications for service delivery across rural/regional locations in WA including Aboriginal aged care. Scope included age friendly communities, housing, community, home and residential aged care and the interplay with health services.
Ageing in the Bush built on other major pieces of work in rural WA including:
- Central East Wheatbelt Aged Support and Care Regional Solution/s (2012)
- Wheatbelt Integrated Aged Care Plan (2013)
- Wheatbelt Aboriginal Aged Care Framework (2014)
Older Persons Services and Accommodation
2019
Client: Rural Councils Victoria
Covering 36 regional local government areas in Victoria, the objective of the project was to develop a strategy to attract and retain older people to rural communities and to achieve economic benefit. The project examined the age friendly efforts of rural councils and to identified concrete opportunities for development of services and accommodation; both as a necessary support for older people and as economic development initiatives to benefit the whole community.
Statewide Strategic Planning
2015-2019
Client: United Protestants Association of NSW
Over this four year period, a series of strategic planning projects were undertaken for UPA, including state-wide plans for community aged care, carer services, ILUs, serviced apartments and residential aged care. Planning drew on detailed research (demographic, supply/demand, competitor scan, growth options) sensitive to local context in 12 semi-autonomous districts.
Review of Placement Prevention and Reunification Services for Aboriginal Children and their Families
2016
Client: Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services
The review methodology emphasised the voice of Aboriginal people across Victoria, as well as examining administrative/program data sets, demographics and policy documents.
Deliverables included an investment strategy, subsequent economic analysis of the recommended investment option and a comprehensive literature review.
Evaluation of Therapeutic Residential Care Pilots
2009-2011
Client: Victorian Department of Human Services
This review informed significant new investment and policy development and the state government’s decision to establish therapeutic residential care as an ongoing element within Victoria’s out-of-home-care system.
The project included development of a series of reports demonstrating a sound understanding of trauma and attachment theory and developmental needs, and their applicability and translation to an out-of-home care context.
Dr James Anglin, author of Pain, Normality and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth (Haworth, 2002), provided the following comments on the quality and impact of the evaluation:
“I want to congratulate you on an impressive evaluation report on the TRC pilots… I made the comment that the TRC initiative and this evaluation of two-year outcomes puts Australia (especially the state of Victoria) on the world map in terms of innovations in residential care. For many years Australia did not really show up in research or practice meetings regarding child and youth care or residential care for young people, but now you have important practice and research materials to share”.
With a lack of similar comprehensive evaluations of TRCs, a decade on the project continues to be referenced as a key piece of evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of therapeutic residential care for children and young people nationally and internationally.
Therapeutic Residential Care System Development
2015-2016
Client: NSW Family & Community Services
An integrated, trauma-informed system was developed, a version of which has been progressively rolled out across NSW.
Project deliverables included:
- Service model
- Outcome Measures Framework
- Operational Plan
- Community of Practice model development plan
- Evidence Guide
Digital Data Collection Tool
2015-current
Development and implementation of a digital data tool for out-of-home care and accompanying analysis and reporting. This project is piloting and improving the tool over multiple years (7 years) in collaboration with The Carers’ Phone Pty Ltd and is being used by a major out-of-home care provider in two jurisdictions.
Faircloth McNair & Associates acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
We recognise that Indigenous Australians never ceded sovereignty of this country and remain strong and enduring in their connection to land and culture.
