We worked with Kooyoora who created a framework that can help organisations to develop a cultural and systemic improvement plan to guide assessment. Using the assessment, we created professional development resources to support organisational change. This project was funded by the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse.
An analysis that assessed the strengths and limitations of outcomes measures of interventions in an Evidence and Gap Map on child maltreatment and violence in institutional settings. Findings include a tool to help program evaluators review measures of safeguarding and child abuse prevention outcomes.
This project aimed to develop new approaches to tackle the problem of child abuse and child sexual abuse. It identified a range of contextual (environmental and situational) prevention strategies that can be adopted cross a range of organisations with diverse service delivery models.
This research was undertaken as part of PhD studies. Analysis of practice and process in child protection departments found that current approaches to domestic and family violence (DFV) used by Australian child protection departments largely rely on an understanding of DFV as coercive control and, as such, use a one-size-fits-all approach to working with families impacted by DFV. But there are many kinds of DFV. This complexity suggests that more support is needed to help child protection practitioners identify the underlying causes of DFV in a family, and to implement targeted supports and interventions that increase the safety and wellbeing of children.
We collaborated with yourtown and consulted with an Elder from Juggera Country to design a program called Bini Wang-Gu to develop a digital health response for children and young people who have been sexually abused or exploited or are at risk of sexual abuse or exploitation.
The project was an evaluation of the Queensland Intermediary Scheme, a pilot program that offers support for children and vulnerable witnesses in court procedures in child sexual offence cases. The aim of the pilot was to reduce trauma for vulnerable witnesses and gave them the opportunity to give their best evidence.
We conducted an evaluation of the HOPE program at CatholicCare Sydney to determine if it meets its intended outcomes, as aligned to NSW State Government and the Australian Government priorities. We sought to understand from mothers in the program what difference the program has made for them.
Read more on HOPEA survey of religious leaders' knowledge of current practices in their settings that are working to safeguard children and young people.
For this project, we investigated the safeguarding capabilities of a range of people with different roles within Catholic Church ministries in various countries.
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