From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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This article examines how different forms of childhood exposure to domestic violence—such as physical harm, threats, property damage, and coercive control—are linked to mental disorders and health risk behaviours in adulthood. Using data from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study, the research found strong associations between coercive control and PTSD, anxiety, and between property damage and severe alcohol use disorder. The findings highlight the urgent need for trauma-informed interventions and stronger protections for children.
Childhood potentially traumatic events are prevalent in the Australian general population and associated with serious mental and physical health conditions. These findings have important implications for early detection and intervention, trauma-informed healthcare approaches, and for policy and practice across health, education and social service systems.
CMY is currently helping practitioners to break the silence through our new Centering Multicultural Youth Voices in Family Violence Training. This limited-time training is youth informed and designed specifically for FV practitioners.
This Youth Action report – the product of a collaboration between the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Thrive International and Youth Action – collated evidence from diverse sources to identify effective ways of engaging young people in programs and service delivery. Some identified ways of engaging were client-centred, strengths-based, trauma-informed and culturally safe.
Session 2 of the series examines how we act when things are going well, and where we go when we are stressed or shut down with our child. What does our personal history have to do with our autonomic responses? How can we begin to move towards ventral if we are frequently in sympathetic/dorsal? This session includes exercises for self-compassion and reset.
Session 1 of a series facilitated by Polyvagal Institute. Expert trainer and clinician Dafna Lender presents practical applications for building safety and connection with children. In this session we will explore everyday examples of safety and connection (ventral), dysregulation (sympathetic/dorsal) and repair (return to ventral). We will learn how our nervous system influences our children and vice versa, and discuss ways to get yourself into a calm and open state (ventral) so you can influence your child in a positive way.
This webinar by MHPN includes an interdisciplinary panel of experts explore how practitioners can respond to the challenges of working therapeutically with children and their families when children have experienced physical or sexual abuse.
Research shows children in Out of Home Care (OOHC) face significant educational challenges. This study analyzed Australian OOHC education policies, revealing major differences in support, with only Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria having specific policies. Recommendations are provided to improve educational outcomes for OOHC students.
Join Mary Blake (Fostering Hope) and Dr. Suse Chequer (Shine Through Psychology) for six engaging sessions on supporting children impacted by trauma. Learn to identify trauma, understand its effects, and gain tools to promote safety and inclusion in your programs.
