Lived Experience and Stories

What Ally Needs Now (eBook) | 2026 | FREE Access
A children’s storybook, co-created with people with lived experience of losing a parent to intimate partner homicide. The book is designed to support children navigating grief, silence, and stigma after fatal family violence. Access to the e-book version is FREE.

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Life After Intimate Partner Homicide: Children and young people bereaved by parental intimate partner homicide reclaim their stories (eBook) | 2025 | FREE digital access Request print copy
This book of autobiographic stories focuses on the experiences of children and young people bereaved by parental intimate partner homicide, often highlighting their journeys to reclaim their stories, navigate grief, and deal with complex legal, social, and emotional aftermaths.

Practice Guides

Home after Homicide – How do children and young people experience home following bereavement through intimate partner homicide? A practitioner resource | 2026 | FREE digital access Request print copy
This resource summarises evidence on how children and young people experience home following the death of a parent through intimate partner homicide. It is designed to help practitioners understand the home-related support needs of these children and young people and to prompt critical reflection on professional practice.

Supporting a child or young person bereaved by domestic violence homicide | 2026 | Access resource
This resource provides tips for any professional who is in contact (brief or ongoing) with a child or young person victim-survivor whose family member was killed by a person using domestic or family violence. While developed in a New South Wales context, the information is relevant and applicable for practitioners across Australia.

Listen: a resource for practitioners | 2021
This series of resources is for professionals who are supporting a child or young person who lost a parent due to fatal family violence. Sections include audio, video, text and reflective questions, designed to help start conversations. Topics include:

  • When there is silence | Access
  • Grief, loss and trauma | Access
  • Navigating home and family | Access
  • Contact with the perpetrator | Access
  • The long haul | Access

Professional learning

KillJoy (ATOM Study Guide) for teachers | Read more

KillJoy is suitable viewing for students in Years 10–12 in:

Sociology
English
Ethics
Health and Human Development
Legal Studies
Media
Psychology

Please note: KillJoy explores themes of suicide, mental health, domestic violence and homicide that some viewers may find distressing. 

Supporting children and young people bereaved by domestic homicide | AIFS, 2023 | Open in new tab
This webinar will help practitioners in child and family services to understand the prevalence and impact of domestic homicide on children and young people, including their experiences of trauma and bereavement.

Research and Evidence

Looking for research and evidence to support your practice? Check out our dedicated Research and Evidence page here

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