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Top tips for inclusive responses to LGBTIQA+ people experiencing family violence

FVSV, LGBTQIA+, practice tool
2024

Tips for engaging and responding to LGBTIQA+ people experiencing family violence. Includes guidelines on best practice on engagement with clients, information gathering and sharing, risk assessment and risk management and where to access further information.

Technology Facilitated Abuse Fact Sheet

FVSV, LGBTQIA+, Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA)
2025

The Say It Out Loud team at ACON and Inner City Legal Centre have collaborated to create a new resource that explains Technology Facilitated Abuse.

Elder Abuse and Domestic Violence LGBTQ+ Factsheet

FVSV, LGBTQIA+
2025

ACON’s Living Older Visibly and Engaged (LOVE) Project has developed a new two-page resource for older people and their support networks.

‘We’ve been robbed’: Young women and gender diverse people’s housing experiences and solutions

housing and homelessness, LGBTQIA+
2024

This report from Swinburne University and YWCA explores the housing experiences of young women and gender diverse individuals in Australia. The study employed a generation, gendered, and intersectional approach to examine housing insecurity, homelessness risk, and actual homelessness among young people aged 18 to 30. The research identifies housing challenges and possible solutions.

Evaluation of the FV Refuge to Recovery for LGBTIQA+ People

domestic and family violence, evidence informed practice, LGBTQIA+, reflect and review
2025

This evaluation report, prepared by Caz McLean for Refuge Victoria, Thorne Harbour Health and Switchboard, assesses the effectiveness of a program aimed at reducing barriers for LGBTIQA+ victim survivors in accessing mainstream FV services. The report indicates there is a need for mainstream organisations to work with LGBTIQA+ community controlled organisations to probide effective responses, with the program addressing barriers through building trust, improving knowledge of services, and increasing understanding of differences in experiences of FV in relation to LGBTIQA+victim survivors.

Creative Art Therapy Program Evaluation

domestic and family violence, FVSV, housing and homelessness, LGBTQIA+, parenting, young people
2024

This evaluation report by Caz McLean evaluates the Creative Art Therapy (CAT) Program by Family Access Network (FAN), which provides therapeutic support to LGBTIQA+ young people and pregnant/parenting young people impacted by family violence and homelessness. The program, funded by the Paul Ramsay Foundation and Family Safety Victoria, aims to decrease wait times for therapeutic support, provide access to LGBTIQA+ lived experience workers, and offer no-cost support to those in financial distress.

Understanding financial abuse

FVSV, LGBTQIA+

Rainbow Door webpage outlining what financial abuse looks like, how it might be used in our communities and where to get support.

Being both: The intersectional experiences of being an LGBTQ+ victim-survivor of sexual violence with disability

disability, FVSV, LGBTQIA+
2024

Results from a comprehensive survey by UoM and UTAS of NSW LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of sexual violence.

Diversity in Practice: Working with LGBTQIA+ children and young people

FVSV, LGBTQIA+, MARAM
2024

Part three of a series of tip sheets on working with children and young people from diverse backgrounds.

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