From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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.
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.
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.
Explores how antenatal care midwives at a tertiary maternity hospital in Melbourne perceive the use of technological screening tools for family violence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
