From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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.
School Can’t Australia suggest four different lenses through which people commonly view school attendance difficulties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This clinical practice point supports individuals managing and working within outpatient and community-based youth healthcare settings to understand what trauma-informed care is, identify the core principles of trauma-informed care as applicable within their work setting, identify how trauma-informed care can be operationalised in their work setting at an organisational level and in clinical practice.
This issue brief discusses the importance of cultivating a child welfare system that recognizes and responds appropriately to trauma. After providing a brief overview of trauma and its effects, the brief explores steps that are involved in transitioning to a trauma-informed system and features examples from State and local programs incorporating trauma-informed practice. The brief concludes by highlighting how cross-system collaborations can help promote trauma-informed child welfare practice.
