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Specialist Family Violence Youth Worker Program Pilot: A Dual Case Management Model

FVSV
2024

Explores the Specialist Family Violence Youth Worker (SFVYW) Program, which offers individualised case management for young people experiencing family violence, along with support for their caregivers.

The REACH project: REcovery And Care to promote Healing for Victorian survivors of sexual violence

FVSV
2024

Guided by insights from people with lived experience of sexual assault and cross-sector practitioners, the REACH project identifies key factors that support recovery and healing.

From Rhetoric to Action: Achieving the National Plan’s Ambition of Recognising Children as Victim-Survivors in Their Own Right

FVSV
2024

Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon’s keynote presentation provided insights into the sector, emphasising the need for a coordinated and supportive approach.

AVITH in Context Webinar: Neuroaffirmative Practice

adolescent violence, Neurodivergence
2024

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.

Childhood maltreatment and adult aggression: The moderating role of neurocognitive ability and substance use

child maltreatment, family violence

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.

Community factors that help foster resilience in young people who have experienced maltreatment

child maltreatment, mental health

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.

Family Violence Sexual Violence Evidence Framework

2024

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 IPSVS

family violence, FVSV, sexual violence

Development and Validation of the Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Scale (IPSVS): A Multi-Dimensional Scale to Measure Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships.

Conceptualizing Domestic Violence Within Clinical Documentation

family violence
2024

There remains a gap in understanding how health professional document DFV in the medical records of women presenting to the ED. Therefore, this qualitative descriptive study explored how DFV is documented in patient records of women presenting to the ED. These findings support the need for sustained and consistent professional training among healthcare professionals concerning the identification, documentation, and response to disclosures, suspicions, and allegations of DFV to better support victim-survivors presenting to the ED and other hospital settings.

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