From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
Research suggests that the dimensions of childhood maltreatment (type, age of onset, duration, frequency and perpetrator) play an important role in determining health and wellbeing outcomes, though little information is available on these dimensions for any care experienced cohorts.
This webinar explored how programs develop, implement, and facilitate groupwork programs to effectively work with young people. We heard from Laura Crozier about the Yeah, Nah Affirmative Consent program, developed by young people for young people. We also heard from a panel of specialist AVITH providers who participated in a facilitated question and answer session regarding considerations around delivering groupwork for young people who use violence in the home.
This study assessed the cumulative impact of childhood maltreatment, substance use, and neurocognitive ability (working memory, cognitive flexibility, decision making, response inhibition, and cognitive control) on aggressive behaviour in adulthood.
Dave Burck's published PhD thesis, from University of Queensland. This qualitative study centres on 15 face-to-face interviews with women and 10 face-to-face interviews with young people ages 12 to 17 (five boys and five girls) who have experienced IPV, Family Violence and Adolescent-Mother-Violence.
In Victoria, young person violence has typically been viewed through the lens of intergenerational family violence. Many specialist AVITH practitioners here report that many of the young people they work with are neurodivergent. Is it time to consider new ways of conceptualising this issue to bring about changes in language, prevention and response? Panellists discuss considerations for working with young people who use violence in the home and their families through a trauma-informed and neuro-affirmative lens.
This short article summarises the key findings of a systematic review conducted by Jean-Thorn and colleagues (2023) that examined whether community factors can help foster resilience in young people (aged ≤24 years) who have experienced maltreatment. It provides some insights for practitioners and services working to support young people and their families where maltreatment may have occurred.
As part of our collaboration, the four peaks have developed this Family Violence Sexual Violence Evidence Framework to guide the work of our respective sectors and to ensure we collectively capture accurate information to inform policy and advocacy, workforce development, programs, practice and projects.
Development and Validation of the Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Scale (IPSVS): A Multi-Dimensional Scale to Measure Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships.