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LOCATION:Macquarie University City Campus Level 24\, 123 Pitt Street Sydney 2000 NSW
DESCRIPTION:Professor Stefanie Schurer demonstrates through her research that routinely collected and linked administrative data on education\, health care use\, and contact with the child protection and juvenile justice systems can be used to develop an informative indicator for risk of multi-dimensional adversity.
In her paper\, she uses data from a novel linked administrative data repository &ndash\; the Child and Youth Development Research Program (CYDRP) &ndash\; selecting all First Nations youth who were born between 2000 and 2006 and are observed living in Australia&rsquo\;s Northern Territory (N=9\,869). The study tests a simple index of adversity that counts up to seven exposures to events with assumed negative consequences (low school attendance and achievement\, diagnoses of mental health and substance use disorders\, child protection notifications and maltreatment substantiations\, and criminal charges) between ages 12 and 18.
The results show that this index is strongly predictive of suicide and suicide attempts\, an important public policy challenge. There is substantial variation in adversity experienced by individuals across communities\, ranging from an average of two to four adversities in remote communities\, and slightly lower overall levels in more urban communities. Importantly\, more than one in two children experience low levels of adversity.
Family-fixed factors explain 7.5 times more of the variation in adversity than community-fixed factors\, suggesting that family-specific policy initiatives are likely to be more effective than broader programs targeting communities.
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SUMMARY:Using High-Quality Linked Administrative Data to Predict the Risk of Adverse Outcomes for First Nations Youth 
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