Webinar Dec 2023
How to recognise complex trauma in infants and children and promote wellbeing
This webinar explored how practitioners can develop their understanding of complex trauma to effectively support infants and children.
Webinar Dec 2023
This webinar explored how practitioners can develop their understanding of complex trauma to effectively support infants and children.
Webinar Sep 2021
This webinar explored what ‘stability’ means in out-of-home care and offered strategies for achieving positive outcomes for children and carers.
Webinar Oct 2021
This webinar explored how to engage with families experiencing alcohol-related harm and explore what a harm-minimisation approach is.
Short article Oct 2020
This short article explores how a population approach to early intervention and prevention can support parents and improve child safety and wellbeing.
Policy and practice paper Dec 2020
This paper examines how men's behaviour change programs and fathering programs address fathering issues for men who use violence.
Commissioned report Jun 2019
A ‘quick scoping review’ of research evidence about timely decision making for children and young people who've entered the child protection system.
Short article Jul 2016
How many children are in the child protection system? How can we improve the system's response to these children and their families?
Family Matters article Oct 2009
This paper examines some of the key factors contributing to poor employment outcomes for young people leaving state out-of-home care, including traumatic pre-care experiences, poor in-care experiences, and lack of ongoing assistance on leaving care in regards to housing, education and other social and personal supports.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Articles in this issue address the interaction of policies, services and institutions, and the vulnerable with the employment prospects of those in out-of-home care; the economic consequences for single-parent families of the changes to the child support and the Welfare-to-Work reforms; and how the Victorian legal system has responded to family violence.
Practice guide May 2016
These guidelines have been developed to build the capacity of workers in the sexual assault and alcohol and other drug sectors to support clients.