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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.

YSAS Introduction to working with Adolescents & Young Men using Intimate Partner Violence

FVSV, intimate partner violence, IPV Young People
2025

No to Violence and YSAS have co-developed a 7-hour training on Adolescent and Youth Intimate Partner Violence dynamics, impacts, and youth-focused interventions. This training is suitable for practitioners and students working with young people, including family violence practitioners, youth workers, and child protection workers.

Understanding why some Autistic children use potentially harmful behaviours

adolescent violence, FVSV, Neurodivergence
2025

This AIFS practice guide summarises the research evidence about the use of potentially harmful behaviours (PHB) by Autistic children.

Complex Developmental Trauma

adolescent violence, complex trauma, trauma-informed practice
2025

This 90-minute webinar, hosted by Interwoven Connections and led by Dr Maude Champagne, offers a foundational understanding of complex trauma, how it differs from other types of trauma, and its impact on brain development and behaviour. Participants will gain practical strategies to care for these children and create safe, supportive environments that promote healing and connection.

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