‘Starting with the Young Person’ Symposium Presentations

Facilitator

Professor Cathy Humphreys – University of Melbourne

Opening Address

Annette Lancy, Acting CEO of Family Safety Victoria

Setting the Policy Scene

Deb Tsorbaris, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare – Towards Common Ground

Elena Campbell, Centre for Innovative Justice – Legal responses to adolescent violence in the home – doing more harm than good?

Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Associate Professor Silke Meyer, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre – The experiences of young people and mothers affected by adolescent and intimate partner violence in the home

Evidence-informed and promising practice

Larisa Freiverts, Anglicare – Responding effectively to families impacted by adolescent to parent violence

Karen Field, drummond street services – Addressing Adolescent Violence in the Home: An Integrated Service Response

Susana Dudas e Silva, Domestic Violence Crisis Service (Canberra) – Young People’s Outreach Program (YPOP)

Deb Berg & Gregory Sloan, Mallee District Aboriginal Service (MDAS) – Adolescent Family Violence Program

Kristen Meyer, Women’s Health West – Centring the child’s experience in counselling “post” family violence: Using Creative Therapy with 0-17 year olds

William Wainwright & Kylie Williams, OzChild – Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

Peninsula Health, Ballarat CAFS, Barwon Child, Youth & Family Services and Sexual Abuse & Family Violence Centre – Implementation of AFV program across three sites

Tania Hancock & Crystal Milesevic, Quantum Support Services – Adolescent Building Connections (ABC) Program: A respectful relationships program

Travis Harries, Deakin University – Age Expansion and Evaluation of the Step Up, Building Healthy Relationships program (poster presentation)

From the young person’s perspective

David Burck, University of Qld – Knowing that they hurt their mum is really hard: Preliminary themes from young people using AVITH

Liana Buchanan, Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People – Action on adolescent family violence: in everyone’s interest

Vicky Baker, University of Central Lancashire – Adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse: The experiences and perceptions of young people

The role of other sectors

Karen Dimmock, Association for Children with a Disability – When disability is a factor in adolescent behaviour

Kyra Low, Department of Justice and Community Safety – Addressing adolescent family violence during involvement with Youth Justice

Michael Keane & Vicki Quinton, Royal Children’s Hospital – Gatehouse Centre – REFOCUS Program: A program for children & adolescents who exhibit problematic and harmful sexual behaviour and their families

Malia Dewse & Tania Last, Department of Education and Training (DET) – Earlier identification and improved intervention: New opportunities in the education system to support adolescents using family violence

Emma Morgan, Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) & Tamara White, Centre for Family Research & Evaluation (CFRE) – Every Opportunity for Change: ​Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People Experiencing and/or Using Violence in their Interpersonal Relationships​

Senior Sergeant Dagmar Andersen & Narelle Goodland, Victoria Police – Police strategy and training in response to adolescent violence in the home

Panel session

How do we work together to intervene earlier?

Facilitated by Marcia Neave AO, Former Commissioner – RCFV

Dean McWhirter, Assistant Commissioner – Victoria Police

Anita Morris, Principal Practitioner – DHHS

Alison MacDonald, Acting CEO – Domestic Violence Victoria

Leeanne Anthony, Manager Recovery and Healing – Family Safety Victoria