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Who knows what and where: influences on responses to family violence in small rural communitiesAuthorNeil Barber PresenterNeil Barber OrganizationCharles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga Australia This is a report on the progress of a study being undertaken by the author in several rural communities in south eastern Australia. The study commenced in 2004 and is attempting to identify the communities of practice (Wenger: 1995) that form within such communities in responding to issues of family violence, particularly child abuse and neglect but also domestic violence. The study particularly looks at communities where professional networks are small and strongly connected to the broader community networks they service, and how these networks respond to the needs of children, parents, other community members and agencies/organizations that may be external to the community. The project is looking for avenues by which the pro-social and ethical concerns toward family violence within such networks can be enhanced and collaborate with l services and organizations that may have resources and mandates to intervene with such needs may be restricted from doing so by organizational and community constraints. PresentationPoster BiographyNeil Barber is an academic teaching and researching within the human and community services programs at Charles Sturt University in rural New South Wales. Neil has extensive practice experience over 15 years, in rural communities in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales in generic and specialist roles, including as a specialist child protection worker and as a policy/program adviser to health professionals. Neil coordinates teaching of child and adolescent welfare programs within the undergraduate social work, welfare work and postgraduate child welfare courses at Charles Sturt University.
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