This evaluation assesses a pilot project where the Australian Red Cross and the Victorian Dargo community co-designed a preparedness platform using local knowledge, open data and artificial intelligence. It showcases how ethical, inclusive technology development can empower communities against climate risk, while highlighting challenges and innovations in co-designing disaster resilience tools with local stakeholders.

Social media, messaging apps, and other digital platforms are reshaping how we build and maintain relationships. This primer aims to help professionals and practitioners working with communities navigate this evolving landscape of digital communication.

This toolkit provides an overview of social connection and describes a process of measurement development. It will allow practitioners to understand the dimensions of social connection and how social connection relates to outcomes of personal wellbeing, deploy the measurement tool and compare the average results from their own data collection to results from nationally representative...

The Social Connection Program Evaluation Toolkit (SoCPET) is a framework to help measure the program quality and impacts of programs that seek to generate social connection. The toolkit is designed for practitioners who want a quick, strengths-based, and evidenced-based tool that has been designed with the community and practitioners.

This guide is a practical resource for practitioners looking to foster social connection in their communities through activities, programs or interventions. It explains the key concepts related to social connection, and offers a model to help understand how they fit together.