From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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.
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.
This paper from Independent Schools Australia advocates for a national cross-sectoral trial of a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to address school non-attendance, particularly school refusal. It highlights the lack of consistent data collection and coordination nationally. The proposed MTSS approach would enable systematic categorisation of attendance issues, helping schools and policymakers better target interventions for students struggling to attend.
This article synthesises new Australian research on filicide and outlines key predictors, risk patterns, and systemic gaps identified in coronial and case review material. It discusses the complexity of parental mental health, relationship dynamics, and service engagement.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is caused by prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and characterised by severe neurodevelopmental impairment. Australian studies have reported PAE prevalence of between 14% and 78% of births. Estimating national FASD prevalence in the general population using gold-standard active case ascertainment is costly and time-consuming, and alternative approaches are required.
Delivered in partnership with Monash and Maroondah Councils, this conversation focuses on exploring the rights of victim survivors of family violence and how to navigate support services, including legal, housing, financial and recovery.
In 2024 Al Coates was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study how other contexts, countries and cultures support families of care experienced children who are living with challenging, aggressive or violent behaviour. These are his findings.
Collaboration between domestic and family violence (DFV) and substance use sectors can enhance client outcomes, however, it also presents challenges. This study identified areas of inquiry, which created collaborative flows and bottlenecks between domestic violence and substance use professionals.
This review finds that low socioeconomic status is strongly linked to child neglect but not consistently to sexual abuse.
