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This report aims to improve understanding, awareness and responses to intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) for practitioners working with people who use family violence. IPSV is a distinct tactic of family violence that often co-occurs with other forms of abuse. It is a high-risk indicator of escalating family violence that signals an increased likelihood of severe injury or death for victim survivors.
The research documents evidence from 225 Victorian frontline workers about their experiences of police responses to family violence. It finds that harmful family violence policing practices are extremely frequent and widespread across the state, and that alternative community-based response pathways for victim-survivors are urgently needed. The report details extensive examples of police minimising and dismissing family violence, engaging in racially targeted, sexist and discriminatory police practices, colluding with perpetrators in ways that extend violence and abuse, and misidentifying victim-survivors as perpetrators. It also shows that many workers have witnessed cases of police-perpetrated family violence as well as widespread institutional protection of, and collusion with, offices who are abusive.
This study explores how young victim-survivors in Victoria experience and navigate the crisis support system when escaping family violence. It was designed using a trauma-informed, child-centred research framework and comprised three phases: a desktop mapping of existing services; stakeholder workshops with Victorian practice and service delivery experts; and in-depth interviews with young people aged 16 to 25 years old with lived experience of family violence and seeking help in Victoria. Despite the substantial reform agenda that has been progressed in the nearly ten years since the Royal Commission into Family Violence (RCFV, 2016), the family violence service system in Victoria remains predominantly adult-centric and often fails to recognise young people as victim-survivors in their own right. Critical gaps persist in ensuring young people - particularly unaccompanied minors - can access safe housing, specialist support services, and clear pathways that support their stability, healing and recovery
In this cohort study of ACEs and health conditions at age 50 years, the findings suggest that while broad-spectrum interventions remain important to ameliorate the influence of ACEs, a targeted approach that considers the types of ACEs may address specific vulnerabilities, particularly poor mental health and severe pain.
This research from Movember Institute maps young men’s digital ecosystems: what they do online, the content that engages them, and emerging trends shaping their health, wellbeing, and relationships. The findings offer practical insights for supporting young men online and offline.
This systematic review examines the effectiveness of interventions focused on improving the mental health of parents of adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions and synthesises details about the intervention characteristics.
Instead of merely emphasizing the reduction of screen time, guidelines should prioritize improving the quality of screen content and enhancing social interactions during screen use. Additionally, screen time guidelines should discourage high levels of the most high-risk behaviors like gaming.
The intersection between young people’s experiences of homelessness and domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) remains underdiscussed in policy and research. Critically absent from this discussion is young people’s input into how they would like to receive support. To address this lack of youth voice, this briefing paper platforms young people’s input into the development of a youth-focused DFSV practice framework. It highlights the important role of youth-led, trauma-informed approaches to care which model authentic relationships between young people and practitioners.
Developed by 'the Center on the Developing Child' (Harvard University), this guide provides an overview of strategies that can support executive functioning in children and adolescents.
