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My superhero voice: Resources to teach body safety

child sexual abuse, parenting, practice tool
2025

This resource supports safe and age-appropriate conversations with children aged 5–8 about personal safety, trusted adults, and speaking up. It includes a downloadable storybook, a read-along video, and guidance for parents, carers, and educators.

From tokenism to transformation: Lived experience in child and family systems

lived experience
2025

This edition of Children Australia highlights what becomes possible when children and young people’s lived experience is taken seriously – and why the sector must move beyond aspiration towards embedded, everyday participation.

The impact of using an infant and child-led therapeutic approach in providing in situ consultations and transferable learnings to key workers working with families identified as at risk: A retrospective Australian study

child voice, FVSV
2025

This paper reports on a retrospective, qualitative evaluation of an ‘infant and child-led’ therapeutic family practice approach undertaken by an infant-mental-health-trained family therapist working with families deemed to be ‘at risk’.

Strengthening National Evidence-Informed Policymaking Ecosystems

evidence based decision making, evidence informed practice
2025

The project by the European JRC took a broad "ecosystem" approach to addressing the effective uptake of evidence in the policy process, considering both demand- and supply-side perspectives. The project engaged with the seven countries using a common analytical structure, analysing capacity at individual, organisational, interorganisational, and system levels, including shared learning and collaborative dialogues.

Child-aware practice with parents who use substances

alcohol and other drugs
2025

The Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) and Emerging Minds recently hosted two webinars exploring strategies for introducing child-aware conversations with parents in a sensitive and collaborative manner. They also discuss supportive approaches which balance child aware conversations with professional obligations to maintain children’s safety, and effective methods for engaging with parents who use substances, with a focus on building trust and reducing shame or guilt.

Online Module – Keeping Children and Young People Safe – Level 1 Aligned to VIC 11 Child safe Standards

culturally responsive practice, evidence informed practice
2025

This foundational course is designed for all staff and volunteers working with children and young people. It covers recognising abuse, responding to disclosures, risk management, cultural safety, and codes of conduct.

Maintain the Momentum

data, domestic and family violence, FVSV prevention
2025

This Three Yearly Report to the Minister for Prevention of Family Violence and to all members of the Victorian Parliament tracks Respect Victoria's progress from January 2022 to December 2024.

Embedding Technological Tools Into Screening for Family Violence in Antenatal Care: Views of Australian Midwives

FVSV
2025

Explores how antenatal care midwives at a tertiary maternity hospital in Melbourne perceive the use of technological screening tools for family violence.

In Conversation – Child sexual abuse and the impacts to and within the family system

child sexual abuse, evidence informed practice, lived experience
2025

This In Conversation discussion brings together lived experience with insights from research, cultural wisdom and practice expertise to explore the impacts of child sexual abuse within the family system.

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