Discussions on how factors such as mental health, alcohol and other drug use, and gambling impact violence, as well as keeping in view additional practice lenses such as cultural safety, disability and work with LGBTIQ+ communities.
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Alcohol and gendered violence
“Alcohol is involved in between 23% and 65% of all police-reported family violence incidents. In 2021-22, 47% of women who were sexually assaulted by a man in the past decade said alcohol or another substance contributed to the most recent incident.” [Source: FARE, 2025]
Insight | 2026 | Open in new tabThis webinar focuses of the intersect between DFV and AOD for victim survivors. Looking at considerations, assessment tools, risk and referrals/safety.
Insight (Qld) | 2026 | Open in new tabThis presentation highlights clinical manifestations of “chemical coercive control” using case presentations. It provides the audience with a greater awareness of the complex intersection between substance use, coercive control tactics and the difficulties of managing them both concurrently
Insight (Qld) | 2025A presentation exploring the intersection of DFV/AOD/MH. Practitioners and staff will hear both theory to practice and learn the basics of what is DFV and how it presents. | Open in new tab
FARE | 2024This webinar unpacks the intersection between alcohol and gendered violence, and provides an overview of current evidence from a panel with expertise in public health policy, lived experience and research. Open in new tab
University of Melbourne, 2021 | Open in new tabThis webinar provides an overview of the Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY (STACY) for Children project, which explored whether the Safe & Together Model improves practices and outcomes for children and families affected by domestic violence and parental issues like AoD and mental health.
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies, 2021 Open in new tabThis webinar will explore NADA’s practice resource, that aims to support the AOD workforce with practical skills and knowledge to work with men who are perpetrating domestic and family violence (DFV). Though DFV is a highly specialised area, and not core business for AOD services, it is important that the workforce build capacity to better respond to people who use DFV and work alongside other service sectors, to address this very serious problem.
Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies, 2021Open in new tabThis webinar and role play compliments the NADA Practice resource: Engaging men who perpetrate domestic and family violence in the AOD treatment context.
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Gambling and gendered violence
“Family violence is three times more likely to occur in families in which there is significant harm from gambling than in families with no harm from gambling.” [Source: Women’s Health in the North, N.D.]
SXSW Sydney Featuring Jess Hill and David Pocock | Dec 2025This session examines the documented rise in domestic violence incidents connected to sport and gambling. This isn’t about demonising sports or betting—it’s about recognising a serious public health issue that’s hiding in plain sight and demands our attention | Open in new tab
Gambler’s Help | 2023Explores the potential role of gambling help services in identifying and responding to clients who have experienced or used violence in their intimate relationships | Open in new tab
ANROWS | 2020This webinar launches the practice guide ‘The dangerous combination of gambling and domestic and family violence against women’. Open video in new tab | View Practice Guide
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Mental health and disability
Continuing the Conversation: Neuroinclusive Practice in Family Violence | IFV Partnership27 July | 11am – 12:30pm | Read more and registerAn online session exploring Pathological Demand Avoidance, family violence & support pathways.
Supporting families requires an acute understanding of different family dynamics and needs. In the first half of the session, Sandhya will explore Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), illuminating its underlying neurology and drivers, and examining how this shapes a different way of conceptualising stressors and needs in risk assessments. The session will also look at when PDA is mistaken for family violence, when the two co-exist, and what this means for support pathways and navigating systems together.
The second half of the session equips practitioners to adapt MARAM risk assessment and safety planning for victim‑survivors and their families who are neurodivergent. Learn how neurodivergence can shape risk, communication, and help‑seeking, and gain practical strategies to create safer, more accessible, and more responsive family violence interventions.
Safe + Equal, 2023 | Open in new tab
In this two-webinar series of the Disability Inclusion Forum, experts share their knowledge and practice insights about victim–survivors of family violence and sexual violence with disabilities.
Our Watch and Women with Disabilities Victoria | 2025Focuses on the new ‘changing the landscape’ practice resources. These resources are designed for practitioners, disability professionals and governments, exploring the links between gender inequality, ableism and violence, as well the actions you can take to prevent it | Open in new tab
ANROWS | 2021Research has found that mental health intersects with DFV in complex ways. Mental ill health can be brought on by DFV, can compound the effects of DFV, can act as a barrier to reporting or accessing support during or after DFV, or can be used as a tool against women by perpetrators of DFV. Open in new tab
University of Melbourne | 2021Provides an overview of the Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY (STACY) for Children project, and explores whether the model improves practices and outcomes for children and families affected by domestic violence and parental issues like AoD and mental health. | Open in new tab
Work with multicultural communities
Webinar: When the system doesn’t speak your language | 15 July, 10am – 11:30am | FREEThis session explores what happens when support systems, services and legal processes are not built for people whose first language isn’t English. It examines how language barriers, inadequate or unsafe interpreter use, system design, migration-related stressors and institutional discrimination intersect to silence, exclude or misidentify victim survivors | More info and register
Preventing violence against women: Engaging men from culturally and linguistically diverse communities | Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)June, 2026Hosted by AIFS, this webinar will explored practical approaches to engage men from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the prevention of violence against women.
Multicultural and settlement services supporting women experiencing violence | ANROWS, 2020 | Access hereThis webinar unpacks ANROWS research, ‘Multicultural and settlement services supporting women experiencing violence: The MuSeS project’.The expert panel of researchers and practitioners discuss:
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