Message from the Executive Director
The CEI team has been busy over the past few months, working on a range of projects across Australia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In this newsletter you can read about some of the recent highlights - our work on improving employment outcomes in remote Australia, the range of exciting new evaluation projects we are leading for the NSW Department of Families and Community Services and our very recent win on an innovative project in the disability sector for the National Council of Social Services in Singapore. We’re thrilled to have reached the major milestone of having worked on over 100 projects for 45 clients since our inception!
Improving employment outcomes in remote Australia – MG Corporation
CEI is delighted to have used its skills to support an innovative program in Western Australia which seeks to work with long-term unemployed, employers and government through prioritising Aboriginal ownership. To learn more about the 100+ Jobs program and CEI’s knowledge translation and evaluation work in this high-priority policy area, please click here.
Evaluations – CEI generating high quality evidence on NSW Government programs
CEI continues to apply our expertise in using rigorous methods and tools to evaluate policies, practice and programs to ensure they are delivering the best possible outcomes for the communities they serve, by leading three new evaluation projects for the NSW Department of Family and Community Services. To learn more about these projects, please click here.
CEI has been successful in its tender to the National Council of Social Services in Singapore to provide consultancy services designed to improve the productivity of therapists in the disability sector, so they can better meet the rising demand for social services in Singapore. To read more about this innovative initiative to address issues associated with Singapore’s aging population, please click here.
Celebrations in Singapore and bringing “What Works” to Australia
We’re hosting a presentation and networking evening in Singapore on 25 April to thank all the partners, collaborators and supporters we have worked with since establishing our Singapore office in 2017. We’re delighted to announce our special guest speakers: Jonathan Breckon - from the UK’s Alliance for Useful Evidence, who will then be travelling with us to Australia to talk more about the “What Works” movement in the Australian context; and Professor Chong Yap Seng - Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. To learn more please click here.
Meet our new team member: Dr Meghan Finch
Meet our new Senior Advisor – Dr Meghan Finch - an experienced program manager and researcher specialising in evidence-based program planning with skills implementation science, theory informed evaluations and evidence synthesis. To read more about Dr Finch’s expertise click here.