Family Matters article Jun 2015
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Family Matters article Jun 2015
A public health approach to enhancing safe and supportive family environments for children
Building on the growing consensus that communities are best served by a public health approach to child protection, this article demonstrates that it is possible to identify family environments at a population level that could be the subject of public health interventions.
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Family Matters article Apr 2017
Conference Keynote. Research to recommendations
Commissioner and Justice Jennifer Coate describes the aims and work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Family Matters article May 2018
A population approach to the prevention of child maltreatment
This article sets out how the prevention of child maltreatment can be enhanced by a multi-level population-based approach in providing evidence- based parenting and family support.
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Research programs
Family law and family separation
Through an extensive and long-standing research program AIFS has examined a range of separation and family law-related issues.
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Submission May 2015
Examination of children affected by family and domestic violence
Submission to National Children’s Commissioner based on research conducted by AIFS and ANROWS
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Submission Jan 2020
Submission to Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System
Findings from Terms of Reference set out by Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System.
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Short article Nov 2016
Australia is failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
New reports show a lack of care for the cultural needs of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection and OOHC.
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Policy and practice paper Jun 2021
Rates of therapy use following a disclosure of child sexual abuse
This paper describes a rapid evidence review of research on the utilisation of therapy for child sexual abuse.
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Policy and practice paper Jun 2021
Factors influencing therapy use following a disclosure of child sexual abuse
This paper reports on the results of a rapid evidence review of research into factors influencing the utilisation of therapy for child sexual abuse.