These best practice guidelines were developed by the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, in partnership with Domestic Violence Victoria and the Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria. They draw on findings from a study of practitioners responding to women and men experiencing and using family violence during the 2020 COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria (Australia). That study was part of a broader program of work led by Dr Naomi Pfitzner, with Associate Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Professor Jacqui True, and funded by the Monash University as part of the Melbourne Experiment.