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Community Adversity and Resilience:

Community Adversity and Resilience: the distribution of social disadvantage in Victoria and New South Wales and the mediating role of social cohesion. Community Adversity and Resilience. SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE FACTORS. Unemployment Long-term Unemployment Low Income Early School Leaving

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Community Adversity and Resilience:

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  1. Community Adversity and Resilience: the distribution of social disadvantage in Victoria and New South Wales and the mediating role of social cohesion

  2. Community Adversity and Resilience SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE FACTORS • Unemployment • Long-term Unemployment • Low Income • Early School Leaving • Non-completion Yr12 Schooling • Unskilled Workers • Low Birth Weight • Child Abuse • Psychiatric Hospital Admissions • Criminal Offence Convictions • Child Injuries • Imprisonment • Threat Severance Electric Supply • Mortality • Disability/Sickness Allowance

  3. Community Adversity and Resilience Unequal in Life (1999)

  4. Community Adversity and Resilience Unequal in Life (1999)

  5. 30% 43% 27% Community Adversity and Resilience

  6. SOCIAL COHESION FACTORS – *VICTORIA Community Adversity and Resilience • Participation in organised recreation/sports groups • Volunteering • Availability of informal help • *(277 of the 647 Victorian postcodes met criteria for inclusion – ie, minimum of 10 respondents for each of the three data sets used)

  7. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONSDRIVE A WEDGE IN THE CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE Community Adversity and Resilience Limited Education and Low Birth Weight are strongly associated (0.45) Low social cohesion The connection is even stronger (0.55) with High social cohesion The connection is much weaker (0.12) with Community Adversity and Resilience, Tony Vinson, March 2004 (Jesuit Social Services) Ch 5

  8. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DRIVE A WEDGE IN THE CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE Community Adversity and Resilience Early School Leaving across local population and Imprisonment are strongly associated (0.47) Connection remainsstrong (0.46) Low social cohesion with Connection is very much weaker (0.11) High social cohesion with Community Adversity and Resilience, Tony Vinson, March 2004 (Jesuit Social Services) Ch 5

  9. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DRIVE A WEDGE IN THE CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE Community Adversity and Resilience Unemployment rate and rate of Imprisonment are strongly connected (0.65) The connection is even stronger (0.75) Low social cohesion with The connection is greatly reduced (0.22) High social cohesion with Community Adversity and Resilience, Tony Vinson, March 2004 (Jesuit Social Services) Ch 5

  10. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DRIVE A WEDGE IN THE CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE Community Adversity and Resilience Early School Leaving is strongly associated with rate of Unemployment (0.64) Strength of association remains about the same (0.63) Low social cohesion with The association is considerably weaker (0.28) High social cohesion with Community Adversity and Resilience, Tony Vinson, March 2004 (Jesuit Social Services) Ch 5

  11. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS DRIVE A WEDGE IN THE CYCLE OF DISADVANTAGE Community Adversity and Resilience The strength of the relationship remains unchanged (0.46) Low Work Skills and rate of Imprisonment are strongly connected (0.47) Low social cohesion with There is a dramaticreduction in degree of association (0.10) High social cohesion with Community Adversity and Resilience, Tony Vinson, March 2004 (Jesuit Social Services) Ch 5

  12. Community Adversity and Resilience TABLE 5.1 – CORRELATIONS BETWEEN ANTECEDENT AND OUTCOME VARIABLES FOR DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SOCIAL COHESION IN VICTORIA

  13. Community Adversity and Resilience TABLE 5.1 – CORRELATIONS BETWEEN ANTECEDENT AND OUTCOME VARIABLES FOR DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SOCIAL COHESION IN VICTORIA

  14. Community Adversity and Resilience FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF TENANTS IN A PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE: • What factors could explain why residents participated in resident association action groups? • What type of person was more likely to assume a greater degree of responsibility in such organisations?

  15. Community Adversity and Resilience PARTICIPATION WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GENERAL DEGREE OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION RESIDENTS POSSESSED WITHIN THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD: • How long they had lived in the area • Whether they intended remaining there • The extent of their local social networks • The balance between family needs, personal aspirations and competing commitments

  16. Community Adversity and Resilience THE PROFILE OF AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT, LIKELY TO BECOME A COMMUNITY LEADER: • Female • Dependent children (not pre-school age) • Australian born • High sense of belonging to the area • Working part-time or unemployed • Already active in other associations

  17. CONCLUSION SOCIAL EXCLUSION BREEDS SOCIAL ALIENATION, WITH INCREASES IN: • CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT • YOUTH SCHOOL DROP OUT • MENTAL HEALTH DISORDER • SUBSTANCE MISUSE • CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS • PRISON EXPANSION Community Adversity and Resilience

  18. Community Adversity and Resilience • CONCLUSION – cont’d • SUCH HIGH BUDGET ITEMS ABSORB AN INCREASING PERCENTAGE OF THE STATE’S BUDGET, BUT GENERALLY FAIL TO CREATE A MORE COHESIVE SOCIETY. • STATE GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN BUILDING SOCIAL COHESION BY TARGETTING AREAS OF ENTRENCHED SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE.

  19. Community Adversity and Resilience: the distribution of social disadvantage in Victoria and New South Wales and the mediating role of social cohesion

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