Public Economics Forum: Improving life trajectories for children experiencing significant adversity

Improving life trajectories for children experiencing significant adversity

Children experiencing significant adversity can face lifelong impacts. This Public Economics Forum will present evidence that the Early Years Education Program (EYEP) has the potential to change children's life trajectories, based on the substantial impacts found in the original Randomised Controlled Trial (EYEP RCT) and early findings from the EYEP Replication Trial. Lessons learnt from the trials and their implications for the early childhood (EC) system and the national reform agenda more broadly will be discussed.

The speakers will explain how EYEP supports children facing significant social disadvantage and family stress, outline the challenges of scaling up a highly specialised programme such as EYEP, describe the stepped-scaling framework and its application in the EYEP replication trial, and present the findings from the 12-month outcome evaluation of the replication trial.

SPEAKERS

• Dr Anne Kennedy AM
  What is EYEP and what are the lessons learnt for the EC system?

• Associate Professor Brigid Jordan AM
  Using implementation science to inform the replication of the evidence based EYEP

• Dr Nichola Combs
  Engaging families experiencing significant hardship: The success and the challenges

• Associate Professor Yi-Ping Tseng
  Can EYEP be successfully replicated? Early evidence from 12-months outcomes of the replication trial

• Professor Peter Dawkins AO (moderator)

This event will include a seated lunch.

Registration from 11.30am

Forum and lunch begins at 12pm

Registration:

$90 per person

$395 group of five people

If you require an invoice please contact melbinstitute-tickets@unimelb.edu.au

Registrations close 5pm, Monday 20 April.

Cancellations after this date will not be refunded but can be transferred.

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