From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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The purpose of this Practice Guidance is to support Victorian Family Safety Advocates (FSAs), including their managers and supervisors, to align to the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework and its associated victim–survivor practice guides.
This guide is designed to support specialist and non-specialist practitioners to have collaborative, respectful conversations with parent–clients about how family violence can affect the whole family.
This resource introduces complex trauma and trauma-informed care to support infants' and young children's well-being. It encourages a 'whole-child' approach and connects families with services.
This short article describes how practitioners can use strategies that help calm children’s bodies in order to help calm their minds and emotions – specifically, the Regulate–Relate–Reason approach used in Berry Street’s Take Two program.
Developed by UK Trauma Council, this video provides a general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.
Public Health England (PHE) has updated their Healthy beginnings guidance sheet to include the most up to date research about neurological development, including the impact of stress and anxiety in pregnancy, and the importance of bonding and attachment. It provides snapshots of information about important periods such as pregnancy and the early weeks of life, as well as examples of good practice in service delivery.
This National Centre for Children in Poverty (NCCP) paper presents an overview of early childhood trauma, the impact it has on young children and brain development and promising strategies for trauma-informed care in early care and education. Along with high quality programming, strong policy is crucial to meeting the emotional and early learning needs of children who have experienced trauma. The NCCP makes a series of recommendations to better support access to quality, trauma-informed early care and education.
This paper from the New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse looks at the issue of violence and abuse in adolescent relationships. Psychological and emotional abuse are shown to be the most common forms of violence among this demographic. School and community based violence prevention programs have an important role to play in supporting young people to build healthy relationships. The report suggests that school curricula and community prevention models need to work alongside one another to create change in relation to violent behaviour in adolescent relationships.
