From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
The Productivity Commission has released its Report on Government Services 2025. The report provides information on the delivery of government services across Australia, including education, community services, health and justice.
The National Office for Child Safety engaged Byll & Beth from Teeny Tiny Stevies to create a song for the One Talk at a Time campaign, encouraging adults to have proactive discussions with children about safety, boundaries, and speaking up. To further support practitioners and parents, this resource has been developed into a free sing-along ebook, designed to facilitate ongoing conversations that help keep children safe.
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.
This study highlights practical implications for interventions, such as the importance of helping young people express their emotions, recognize the harm caused, identify safe spaces, people, or activities, and support them in the process of apologizing.
Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is associated with youth substance problems; however, CPV which is substance-involved (SU-CPV) is specifically excluded from the consensus definition of CPV and few studies have explored the familial context surrounding SU-CPV. This study by Deakin University utilised the I3 model to explore associations between parental monitoring, parental intrusiveness, affective reactivity, concurrent reactive CPV and SU-CPV in an Australian community sample of caregivers.
Difficulty accessing disability assessments and diagnoses for children resulted in a lack of access to disability support services and missed opportunities for early intervention. Priority areas for improvement included appropriate and accessible training for carers and practice support.
This research chapter introduces the S.E.L.F cultural framework as a tool for social workers to support children in out-of-home care while maintaining connections to family and culture.
This research brief explores men’s reported experiences of coercive control, documents what the impact of those experiences might be, and offers one way of making sense of them.
This paper explores the importance of moving beyond a narrow examination of technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) and domestic and family violence (DFV).
