Category: Policy & Practice Guidelines
Collaboration to Harness Research Involving Safe & Together: Inquiry and Evidence (CHRISTIE)
CHRISTIE is an action research project which will extend the evidence base about effective interagency work for children, young people ...
Kertesz, M., Nguyen, H. T. D., Guillou, M., Tsantefski, M., & Humphreys, C. (2024). KODY Practitioner Workshop: A KODY Model for Change. Report of Practitioner Workshop with Kids First and Odyssey House Victoria, 25 March 2024. University of Melbourne and Southern Cross University.
On March 25th, 2025, the second KODY Practitioner Workshop was held in Brunswick, Melbourne. Practitioners and program managers from Kids ...
KODY Research Team. (2023). Substance Use Coercion: The Intersection of Domestic and Family Violence and Alcohol and Other Drugs. Policy Briefing Paper, November 2023. University of Melbourne.
In the context of domestic and family violence (DFV), substance use often forms part of the tactics ofviolence and abuse ...
KODY Policy Stakeholder Group: Leverage Points for policy development across sectors: a systems approach. Report of Workshop 1, November 2022 (2023)
This report presents the findings from the first KODY Policy Stakeholder Group workshop held at the University of Melbourne on ...
KODY Practitioner Workshop: Practitioner-led Knowledge Building – Report (2023)
On March 16th, 2023, the KODY Program’s first Practitioner Workshop was held in Richmond, Melbourne. Practitioners and program managers from ...
DICE ‘ROLE’: Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation – Researching Onset of Young People’s Lived Experience with Coerced ‘Self-produced’ Material
This project focuses on how children and young people are being coerced to ‘self-produce’ Child Exploitation Material (CEM). This qualitative ...
All-of-family responses to children, mothers and fathers accessing services for domestic and family violence in Victoria, Australia (2022)
Abstract While DV is perpetrated in all parts of society, it may be experienced differently, depending upon gender, sexuality, race, ...
“Frantic online searches for help”: design considerations for an online early intervention service addressing harmful sexual behaviour
Abstract Secondary prevention efforts, which target risk and protective factors associated with harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) and seek to intervene ...
Beyond co‐occurrence: addressing the intersections of domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse. (2022)
This paper reports an Australian project designed to simultaneously explore and capacity build professional practice when working at the intersection ...
Participatory practice guideline development at the intersections of domestic and family violence, mental distress and/or parental substance use (2022)
It is well established that the service system has a poor history of responding holistically to address the needs of ...
