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CISS in Action: Maria’s Story

child safety, child wellbeing, FVSV, MARAM
2024

A testimonial from an Integrated Family Services practitioner highlighting their use of the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) to promote the wellbeing and safety of a child and help to achieve a positive outcome for the child's family.

CISS in Action: Hana’s Story

child safety, child wellbeing, FVSV, MARAM
2024

A testimonial from a program manager at a community and wellbeing organisation highlighting their use of the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) to promote the wellbeing and safety of a child and help to achieve a positive outcome for the child's family.

CISS in Action: Anita’s Story

child safety, child wellbeing, FVSV, MARAM
2024

A testimonial from an Integrated Family Services team leader highlighting their use of the Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) to promote the wellbeing and safety of a child and help to achieve a positive outcome for the child's family.

The Four Lenses of School Attendance Difficulties

school can't
2024

School Can’t Australia suggest four different lenses through which people commonly view school attendance difficulties.

Acknowledging children as victim-survivors of DV

adolescent violence, CEDV, domestic and family violence, FVSV
2024

This article looks at relevant international practice and current Australian national and state policies, concluding that there is both a policy-authorising environment and international models from which to draw to achieve improved support options for children and young people as victim-survivors in their own right through the delivery of MBCPs.

Perpetrator interventions acknowledging children as victim-survivors

family violence
2024

Drawing on findings from a men's behaviour change program (MBCP) review, this article by McGowan, J., Helps, N., & Fitz-Gibbon, K. examines the need for family violence perpetrator interventions to advance opportunities for engagement with children and young people.

Practice Guide: Parent-focused interventions to support the behaviours of children with disability

disability, parenting
2024

This resource summarises the evidence about the effectiveness of parent-focused interventions designed to support children with intellectual disability and autistic children who display behaviours of concern.

Practice Guide: Understanding behaviours of concern for children with disability

children and young people, disability

This practice guide draws on research evidence and practitioner knowledge to provide an overview of approaches to understanding the behaviours of children with disability and the concept of ‘behaviours of concern’. It includes some practical principles for working with children with disability and their families.

Children and young people bereaved by domestic homicide: A focus on Australia

children and young people, domestic homicide, family violence

This brief report conveys key findings from the study “Children and young people bereaved by domestic homicide: Understanding home, relationships and identity, “with a focus on Australia. The research engaged a lived experience researcher, Kathryn Joy, and undertook focus groups with those on this panel, and others who as children or young people had experienced the death of their mother from domestic homicide.

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