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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.

Foundations of child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse, evidence informed practice
2025

A self-paced, two-hour course providing foundational knowledge on child sexual abuse, including prevalence, warning signs, perpetrator behaviour, impacts, and prevention. Suitable for workers and community members. The course costs $33 (incl. GST) with bulk enrolment options.

Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide: A Victorian study

domestic and family violence, mental health
2025

This study links family violence to women’s suicide, showing how coercive control, housing insecurity, and systemic failures increase risk. It calls for better recognition of family violence in coronial processes.

Engaging Dads using Family Violence

domestic and family violence, FVSV, FVSV prevention
2025

This training explores the impact on children witnessing or experiencing abuse and how to shift the focus of interventions to the father’s responsibility and accountability for safe parenting.

Creating Safe Organisations for Children & Young People Workshop

child protection, child safety
2026

An interactive 2 to 4-hour workshop focused on embedding a child-safe culture aligned with the 10 National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. Participants learn risk identification, leadership strategies, cultural safety, and engaging children and young people.

Child maltreatment: Evidence-based insights for policy and program design 

CEDV, child maltreatment, FVSV, housing and homelessness
2025

This study reveals that 80 children died while living in temporary accommodation in England between October 2023 and September 2024, representing 3 per cent of all child deaths during this period.

Abuse of Older People – Response Toolkit

FVSV
2025

This Toolkit equips professionals in Melbourne’s northern region to identify and respond to elder abuse with empathy and safety.

2026 Conference: Recovery and Healing: Striving Together

trauma-informed practice
2026

This conference will explore the importance of trauma recovery and healing in a relaxed informal environment. The conference will educate, inform, support and activate professionals, decision makers, and researchers about the need to focus on recovery in ending gender-based violence.

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