Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
M/C Journal
Publisher
Queensland University of Technology
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
25421
Abstract
The Hand Up Linkage project focuses on the family as a communication context through which to explore the dynamics of intergenerational welfare dependency. In particular, it explores ways that creative life-course interventions might allow children in welfare dependent families to construct alternative realities for themselves and alternative views of their future. Formed through an alliance between a key Western Australian social welfare not-for-profit organisation, St Vincent de Paul WA (SVDPWA and also, in the context of volunteers, ‘Vinnies’), and Edith Cowan University, the project aims to address the organisation’s vision to provide “a hand up” (St Vincent 1) rather than ‘a hand out’, so that people can move forward with their lives without becoming dependent upon welfare.
DOI
10.5204/mcj.1211
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Green, L. & Stevenson, K. (2017). A ten-year-old’s use of creative content to construct an alternative future for herself. M/C Journal, 20(1).
https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1211