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Embedding client experience family violence service design and delivery

FVSV, lived experience
2025

This project sought to build a lived experience and practice-informed evidence base about how to meaningfully and safely engage client voices to strengthen family violence support in Victoria. Through a series of collaborative workshops with family violence victim-survivors and practitioners, this project developed the Client Feedback Framework.

BYS Youth Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Practice Framework Snapshot

adolescent violence, CEDV, FVSV
2025

This snapshot, published by Brisbane Youth Service, introduces the BYS Youth Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence Practice Framework. The Framework will guide practice at BYS in supporting children and young people aged 12 to 25 who are impacted by domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) while experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Breaking the Silence: Centering Multicultural Youth Voices in Family Violence Practice

CEDV, FVSV, multicultural, trauma-informed practice, young people
2025

CMY is currently helping practitioners to break the silence through our new Centering Multicultural Youth Voices in Family Violence Training. This limited-time training is youth informed and designed specifically for FV practitioners.

Why We Must Centre Young People to End DFSV

adolescent violence, domestic and family violence

Watch this ANROWS Conference video to hear directly from Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, Elena Campbell and Dr Georgina Dimopoulos as they discuss how we build systems that recognise, respect and respond to young people’s lived experiences.

Young people’s attitudes and perceptions of technology-facilitated coercive control: A scoping review

adolescent violence, domestic and family violence
2025

Technology-facilitated coercive control (TFCC) refers to (ex-)partner abuse enabled by digital technology. The review considers implications for research and practice, emphasising the need to adopt an intersectional lens and a framework that prioritises contextual factors, including the gendered nature and impact of TFCC.

The use of intimate partner violence among Australian men

domestic and family violence
2025

This research by AIFS explores the use of intimate partner violence among Australian men, including factors that may reduce the likelihood of such behaviours. A public health approach is taken that considers the power of improving men’s health and wellbeing in relation to preventing intimate partner violence.

Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School-Level Education

CEDV, domestic and family violence, education, FVSV
2025

Drawing on findings from a national survey of 1651 young people who reported experiences of DFV, this article enhances current understandings of how DFV impacts education and the effectiveness of school-based help-seeking for young Australians experiencing DFV. Centring the voices of young victim-survivors, our findings question the degree to which schools are presently equipped to recognise, respond to and support students who experience DFV.

Empowering Children: Healing from Domestic Abuse

complex trauma, domestic and family violence, FVSV

In this episode of the Safe & Together Institute podcast series, Dr. Asha Patel shares her journey from working with high-profile offenders to founding Innovating Minds, with a mission to provide early support for children often mislabeled as “naughty” and excluded from education.

Supporting secondary school students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – Learning with FASD

FASD, Neurodivergence

Presented by Associate Professor Louise Mewton, Julia Riches and Georgette Borel, this webinar is for secondary school teaching and support staff interested in learning more about supporting students with FASD. The webinar covers: What is FASD and how does it affect learning and behaviour? The development of new evidence-based resources on FASD for secondary school teaching and support staff. Strategies for supporting young people with FASD in the school environment.

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