Short article Jun 2021
Listening to children and young people’s voices about safety in organisations
This short article outlines research on children and young people’s hopes and needs when feeling unsafe, with implications for service providers.
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Short article Jun 2021
This short article outlines research on children and young people’s hopes and needs when feeling unsafe, with implications for service providers.
Webinar Dec 2021
This webinar presented the research on LGBTIQA+ young people’s social and emotional wellbeing and how professionals can better understand, engage and respond to their needs.
Webinar Jan 2022
This webinar explored how services can support women to describe the impacts of coercive control and respond to their partner’s behaviours.
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.
Short article Mar 2016
We recently spoke with Professor Sue Dyson about respectful relationships education, and its role in preventing domestic and family violence.
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 Mar 2016
"Why are families important?" This article reflects on some of AIFS recent learnings about families to inform investment in future policy directions.
Media release Dec 2020
Using findings from the first wave of the Families in Australia Survey, this article looks at support in families and social networks during COVID.
Media release Jul 2021
New research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows one in five Australian women changed their plans of having children because of COVID-19, and one in seven women indicated that COVID-19 likely impacted on when they would have children, with the majority of this cohort (92%) choosing to delay having children.