ARACY Overview

About ARACY

The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) is a national non-profit organisation of more than 1200 members (organisations and individuals), working to create better futures for Australia's children and young people.

ARACY's vision is a future in which:

Australia's children and young people thrive and their wellbeing is a national priority.

ARACY's purpose is:

To improve the wellbeing of children and young people, by advancing collaboration and evidence-based action.

To achieve this, we need to fill in the gaps in current knowledge about the complex issues facing children and young people as well as translate existing knowledge and evidence of 'what works' into practice and policy. ARACY provides neutral space for stimulating and facilitating national collaborative efforts to do this.

ARACY is building and supporting collaborations of researchers, policy makers and practitioners across disciplines, to share knowledge and foster new ways of thinking and working. Through these collaborations, and by translating the best evidence into policy and practice, ARACY is helping to prevent problems before they arise, and enhancing the wellbeing of future generations.

ARACY's membership includes leaders in a broad range of areas such as early childhood and adolescent development, psychology, paediatrics, epidemiology, education, justice, the social sciences, population statistics, and economics, with top-level policy makers and service providers. Read more about becoming a member of ARACY.

More about ARACY:

Our Guiding Principles
ARACY's challenge
Our approach
History of ARACY
Funding and support