Family Safety
This project is funded by an Australia Research Council Linkage Grant (LP210100181) and involves collaboration between La Trobe University, Relationships Australia South Australia, and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Courts).
The project harnesses the opportunity to learn prospectively from separating families engaged with the Courts. In a suite of studies, we are examining risk pathways, burdens, and costs of post-separation family violence, and the relative efficacy and cost-benefits of early family safety risk-screening and triage processes.
This project was carried out in partnership with Family Safety Victoria and was funded by the State Government of Victoria.
A range of programs and services are in place in Victoria’s women’s prisons to identify and support both victim-survivors of family violence (FV) and women who use violence. However, there is significant variability in access and uptake of these services.