Episode 27 – Bring them home, keep them home: A community-led approach to child restoration for Aboriginal families with Dr BJ Newton
Welcome back to the Social Work Discoveries podcast.
Today’s guest researcher is Dr BJ Newton. BJ is a proud Wiradjuri woman and a Scientia Senior Research Fellow based at the Social Policy Research Centre within the University of NSW, Sydney. Dr Newton specialises in Indigenous research methods and child protection research and policy. Her research focuses on working in partnership with Aboriginal organisations to build evidence and support Aboriginal families interfacing with child protection systems.
BJ’s current research, ‘Bring them home, keep them home’ investigates the rates, outcomes, and experiences of successful and sustainable restoration for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. She has extensive experience working on a range of child protection and domestic and family violence commissioned research, and multiple projects for the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
In this conversation, you’ll hear BJ talking all about child restoration practices in Australia, Aboriginal Community-led approaches to research and social change, Indigenous research methods, and so much more.
I hope you get as much from this conversation, as I did. It was an absolute pleasure!
Ben.
To reach out to BJ or to follow her work, please use the following link to her UNSW research profile: