Carers Investment Program One Year on .. Funded Organisations - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

11/18/2019

Carers Investment Program

One Year on ..

Funded Organisations

Provider Name Project Name Reach Carers NSW Carer2Work State-wide Carers NSW Carer Peer Connect State-wide Carers NSW YC Drive State-wide Catholic Care Wollongong Families and Sibling Support Program - Deadly SIBS Regional Central Coast Local Health District Hospital In The Home - HITH Program Regional Conservation Volunteers Australia Green Gym Regional Dementia Australia Virtual Reality Experience for Carers State-wide Mid Coast Communities Incorp Impact and Rollout of NDIS on Carers Regional Multicultural Care Weavers - Peer Support for CALD Carers Sydney NPS MedicineWise MedicineWise App State-wide TAFE NSW Up Skilling Carers State-wide University of South Australia Carers in the Balance - Research on work and education

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State-wide University of Technology Sydney Centre for Carers Research State-wide Yarkuwa Caring is what we do Regional

Initial analysis of the first year annual reports from all projects shows .. Total Numbers

• 4200 carers participated in CIP projects as of 30 June

– 3700 carers accessed the NPS MedicineWise App – 500 carers received face-to-face support

Year 1 Results

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Gender

• Programs on average have a gender split of 2/3 women,

1/3 men. Aboriginal and CALD Carers

• Generally low numbers of Aboriginal or CALD carers

participating in projects not specifically designed to support their needs. NDIS

• At least 1/3 of carers care for a person who is not

receiving NDIS funding.

Year 1 Results

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Evaluation and Reporting

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• Development of an evaluation plan for the program
• Program processes and outcomes will be assessed
• Evidence will be drawn from project reports and

evaluations

• Most Significant Change (MSC) a monitoring and

evaluation technique/method will be used to evaluate a sub-set of projects.

Evaluation of the Program

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Most Significant Change

Domains of Inquiry

• Social connection
• Capacity to live a fulfilling life
• Understanding and knowledge

Research populations

• Carers engaged or connected to projects
• Project team

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Centre for Carers Research

• YC Drive - Pauline Mackiewicz
• Carers in the Balance – interviews and focus groups
• Multicultural Weavers – Jessur Mamut

Three projects here today

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