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Improving Service Pathways

FVSV, service delivery
2024

Project Respect's report highlights the urgent need for trauma-informed, long-term support for women and gender diverse individuals in Victoria's sex industry, revealing significant service gaps and systemic barriers.

Children aged 10 to 13 in the justice system: Characteristics, alleged offending and legal outcomes

youth justice
2024

This study sought to generate new knowledge about children aged 10 to 13 years who are charged with offending, including their characteristics and support needs, the application of doli incapax provisions with this group, and their offending, criminal justice outcomes and trajectories.

‘It was Dangerous, Corrosive and Cruel but not Illegal’: Legal help-seeking Behaviours Amongst LGBTQA+ Domestic and Family Violence Victim-survivors Experiencing Coercive Control in Australia

FVSV, LGBTQIA+
2023

This article examines LGBTQA+ Australians’ experiences of legal help-seeking behaviours when experiencing coercive control from an intimate partner and/or family member.

Grooming and child sexual abuse

child sexual abuse, FVSV
2024

This fact sheet provides an overview of child sexual abuse with a specific focus on child grooming. It details: information about the grooming process; how perpetrators groom parents, caregivers, co-workers or other adults; online grooming and child sexual abuse; what to do if you suspect grooming or child sexual abuse; and how to access specialist sexual assault services.

Understanding sexual assault

FVSV
2023

This fact sheet provides an overview of sexual assault, how common it is and includes common reactions and feelings one might encounter after sexual assault, and where to get support.

Not all child-to-parent violence is the same

adolescent violence
2024

This research by Deakin University explores a typology of dyads experiencing child-to-parent violence (CPV) using the function of CPV (i.e., its motivation). CPV may be motivated by reactive (i.e., retaliatory), proactive (i.e., instrumental), or affective (i.e., primarily emotional) functions, which may co-occur intraindividually.

Responding to objectification, fetishisation & sexual exploitation of trans women & trans feminine people by cisgender men

health and wellbeing, LGBTQIA+
2024

A resource for health and community services practitioners who want to better understand how to identify and address objectification, fetishisation and sexual exploitation of trans women and trans feminine people by cisgender men.

Engaging with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse: A practice guide for workers and organisations

child sexual abuse, practice tool, service improvement
2024

The Practice Guide for Workers and Organisations is an Australian Government resource that offers evidence-based guidance to support trauma-informed, culturally safe, and victim- and survivor-centred responses to child sexual abuse across all ages.

Fathering: A note on practice

COVID-19, FVSV prevention
2024

This resource provides advice to practitioners on engaging fathers in behaviour change and outlines the importance of system collaboration and family safety contact work.

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