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Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY: Long-term practice change. 
Abstract This study focused on long-term practice changes reported by participants of the STACY Project (Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY) ...
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The attitudes and beliefs of the child protection workforce and why they matter to children who live with violence
Abstract In Australia, like other developed countries, there has been an increase in reports to child protection services about children ...
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“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 ...
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A global silence – a critical interpretive synthesis of Aboriginal mothering through domestic and family violence.
Abstract: Aboriginal women globally face extreme risk of violence and their exposure to domestic and family violence (DFV) and state ...
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Participatory practice guideline development at the intersections of domestic and family violence, mental distress and/or parental substance use.
Abstract: It is well established that the service system has a poor history of responding holistically to address the needs ...
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DAHLIA-19 Australian Case Study
Abstract: Situated against this background of changes to the family law context is the National Covid-19 List. The Australian mapping ...
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KODY. An all-of-family response to co-occurring substance use and domestic violence: protocol for a quasi-experimental intervention trial.
Abstract: This study aims to build on the existing evidence by trialling the KODY program which addresses harmful substance use ...
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“Never waste a crisis”: Domestic and family violence policy and practice initiatives in response to COVID-19 (DAHLIA-19)
Abstract: This report describes the activities undertaken in 2020-21 by the University of Melbourne with Kids First and Odyssey Across ...
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Kertesz, M., Fogden, L. and Humphreys, C. (2021) The KODY Project: Report on the development of an all-of-family intervention at the intersections of DFV and AOD. Melbourne: University of Melbourne.
Abstract: This report describes the activities undertaken in 2020-21 by the University of Melbourne with Kids First and Odyssey House ...
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Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2020). Safe & Together Addressing ComplexitY for Children (STACY for Children): Key findings and future directions (Research to policy and practice, 22/2020). Sydney: ANROWS.
Abstract: The “STACY for Children” project was conducted across three research sites in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria by ...
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